====== Grant, John ====== (10 Oct. 1837-30 Nov. 1916), sawmill proprietor. (known both as John Peter Grant and John Morgan Grant; John P. Grant, Johnny Grant) Born on Concession 10, Indian Lands, in GC. Parents: Peter Grant and his wife Jane Ann (Nina) Morgan. John Grant was married on 4 Aug. 1862 to Catherine (Katie) Stewart, who was also born on Concession 10 Indian Lands. Her father had been a gamekeeper for the Duke of Athol in Scotland. After their marriage John and Catherine moved to Moose Creek, in Stormont County. John Grant founded and operated a thriving sawmill at Moose Creek. He was associated in business at Moose Creek with another lumberman, Thomas Dey. Some of the lumber from John Grant’s mill was exported to the British markets. After the failure of Grant’s sawmill at Moose Creek the physical plant of the mill was moved to Dalkeith. Thereafter Peter Grant worked as a designer and builder of sawmills. He was a member of the SDG Council. Presbyterian.The large family of John Grant and his wife included the following: Peter John Grant (9 Jan. 1867-20 Aug. 1949). (Peter J. Grant, P. J. Grant) Born at Moose Creek. He spoke English, Gaelic and some French. He was badly injured twice in sawmill accidents, first in Oregon, where he lost an arm at the age of about 18, and then, in 1896, at Greenfield, in GC. He was presumably the Peter Grant, said to be a Maxville man, who in the fall of 1910 was lumbering on the Parry Sound section of the Canada Atlantic Railway line but was back in GC recruiting lumber woods workers. (//Glengarry News// 16 Nov. 1900) Peter John Grant was a prominent businessman for many years in Northern Ontario’s Timiskaming, where he settled about 1909. There he was active in lumbering, sawmill operation, farming and dairy ownership. In 1927 and 1928, he was mayor of New Liskeard. He was a business associate and friend of the Glengarrian A.J. Kennedy. John James Grant (10 Sept. 1870-28 Sept. 1931). (Jack Grant, J.J. Grant, John J. Grant, Johnny Grant) As a technician, he was active in introducing the use of the double-cut bandsaw in sawmills. As a businessman, he was active in developing the coal reserves of Vancouver Island. He was the father-in-law of Frank McMahon, the oil-and-gas magnate. William Duncan Grant (10 June 1878-1 April 1932). (Willie Grant, William D. Grant) Born at Moose Creek. He developed new methods for underwater blasting. A wealthy and successful businessman, he operated what is believed to have been the largest dredging business in Canada in his time, with contracts in Canada, the U.S. and Britain. ---- History of this branch of the Grant family by Lois Grant, called //Days into Decades: Grant Family Sketches// (1995). Interesting and remarkable as the unusually detailed story of one of the many highly successful families of GC origin, it includes illustr. and much useful documentary material, including reprints of obituaries. * Frank McMahon: Hurtig, II, 1278; Peter C. Newman, //The Canadian Establishmen//t, vol. I (1989 edn.) * Peter John Grant’s Greenfield accident, //Glengarry News// 9 Oct. 1896 * obituary of William D. Grant, //Standard Freeholder// 30 April 1932 [<6>]