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| <tab>Meanwhile, his business partner John D. McIntosh had died in 1914. The carriage business itself had gone into decline with the increasing popularity of the automobile. Manufacturing continued into the later 1920s and there was some use of the plant for odd jobs even into the 1930s, but in 1938 the buildings, which had been standing idle, were torn down. (//GN// 10 June and 16 Sept. 1938) Munro left GC in June 1936 to spend his remaining years in Edmonton, at the home of his daughter Grace, who was married to Dr Gustavus John Hope (1885-21 Sept. 1958), an Edmonton dentist. (His initials are also found as J. G.) The address presented to Hugh Munro when he left Alexandria stated, “We fully realize what a great disappointment it has been to you to find the business of the Carriage Factories carried on at Brantford and to see the mills which were the product of your genius and your unfailing courage standing idle and silent.” (//Glengarry News// 19 June 1936 ) Hugh Munro died in Edmonton. The funeral was in Edmonton. The //Glengarry News// obituary noted that his death, falling within a few hours of that of Mrs John D. McIntosh, the wife of his partner, “severed the last connection of Alexandria with members of the firm” of Munro and McIntosh. Munro had property interests, though they may not have been extensive, in Winnipeg and Montreal. (//Glengarry News// 25 Nov. 1910, 23 Feb. 1912) | <tab>Meanwhile, his business partner John D. McIntosh had died in 1914. The carriage business itself had gone into decline with the increasing popularity of the automobile. Manufacturing continued into the later 1920s and there was some use of the plant for odd jobs even into the 1930s, but in 1938 the buildings, which had been standing idle, were torn down. (//GN// 10 June and 16 Sept. 1938) Munro left GC in June 1936 to spend his remaining years in Edmonton, at the home of his daughter Grace, who was married to Dr Gustavus John Hope (1885-21 Sept. 1958), an Edmonton dentist. (His initials are also found as J. G.) The address presented to Hugh Munro when he left Alexandria stated, “We fully realize what a great disappointment it has been to you to find the business of the Carriage Factories carried on at Brantford and to see the mills which were the product of your genius and your unfailing courage standing idle and silent.” (//Glengarry News// 19 June 1936 ) Hugh Munro died in Edmonton. The funeral was in Edmonton. The //Glengarry News// obituary noted that his death, falling within a few hours of that of Mrs John D. McIntosh, the wife of his partner, “severed the last connection of Alexandria with members of the firm” of Munro and McIntosh. Munro had property interests, though they may not have been extensive, in Winnipeg and Montreal. (//Glengarry News// 25 Nov. 1910, 23 Feb. 1912) |
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| <tab>Munro was deeply interested in the history of GC. When he spoke at the 1912 centenary celebrations for St. Andrew’s Church, Williamstown, he appealed for a more systematic effort to preserve the history, records and artifacts of GC. He himself published a series of articles in the //Glengarry News// in May and June 1925 on the early history of GC. He contributed material for a short history of Glen Roy which appeared in the //Ottawa Citizen// and the //Glengarry News// in 1935 (//Glengarry News// 20 Dec. 1935). He was married on 17 Feb. 1883 to Emma McCracken of Farran’s Point. She and the wife of his business partner, John D. McIntosh, were probably close relatives, but it has not been determined that they were sisters. In the 1990s, a bed and breakfast house in Alexandria was named the Carriage House in honour of Alexandria’s famous industry. (//GN// and //Vankleek Hill Review// 30 April 1997) Munro himself passed into GC legend as well as history. Perhaps this was happening as early as 1890 when two blacksmiths called Lauzon and Dupratto were advertising their new blacksmith shop at “Hugh Munro’s Old Stand, Kenyon Street.” (//Glengarrian// 10 Oct. 1890) Over the years in obituaries the local press often noted that the deceased had been an employee of the Munro and McIntosh firm. See also Buick, DaPrato and Tarlton. | <tab>Munro was deeply interested in the history of GC. When he spoke at the 1912 centenary celebrations for St. Andrew’s Church, Williamstown, he appealed for a more systematic effort to preserve the history, records and artifacts of GC. He himself published a series of articles in the //Glengarry News// in May and June 1925 on the early history of GC. He contributed material for a short history of Glen Roy which appeared in the //Ottawa Citizen// and the //Glengarry News// in 1935 (//Glengarry News// 20 Dec. 1935). He was married on 17 Feb. 1883 to Emma McCracken of Farran’s Point. She and the wife of his business partner, John D. McIntosh, were probably close relatives, but it has not been determined that they were sisters. In the 1990s, a bed and breakfast house in Alexandria was named the Carriage House in honour of Alexandria’s famous industry. (//GN// and //Vankleek Hill Review// 30 April 1997) Munro himself passed into GC legend as well as history. Perhaps this was happening as early as 1890 when two blacksmiths called Lauzon and Dupratto were advertising their new blacksmith shop at “Hugh Munro’s Old Stand, Kenyon Street.” (//Glengarrian// 10 Oct. 1890) Over the years in obituaries the local press often noted that the deceased had been an employee of the Munro and McIntosh firm. See also [[buick_david_dunbar|Buick]], [[daprato_depratto_depratto|DaPrato]] and [[tarlton_edward_irwin|Tarlton]]. |
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| <tab>The //Glengarry News//, 8 Dec. 1999, printed a splendid, sombre photograph, attributed to Duncan Donovan, of the water tower of the Munro & McIntosh carriage factory against a snowy townscape. | <tab>The //Glengarry News//, 8 Dec. 1999, printed a splendid, sombre photograph, attributed to Duncan Donovan, of the water tower of the Munro & McIntosh carriage factory against a snowy townscape. |
