(died 19 May 1973, aged 87), hardware merchant. (A.P. Hanley, Alex Hanley, Alex P. Hanley) Born in Montreal. Parents: Alexander Hanley (1856-1931) and his wife Annie Urquhart (1865-1939). Alex Hanley, the subject of the present article, grew up on his parents’ farm at Baltics Corners, GC. He went to the West in 1907, lived at Crowsnest Pass, Lethbridge, Medicine Hat, and Wapella, Sask., then went in April 1921 to Drumheller, Alta. In Drumheller, which was his home till his death 52 years later, he operated Hanley’s Hardware, and was mayor “for ten consecutive years during the ‘Hungry Thirties’.” (Hills of Home) He was on the municipal hospital board 1923-1938, and involved in beginning the Drumheller Fossil Museum. He was active in the service of Knox United Church. He died at Drumheller. Burial was at Calgary. He was married to Mary McGregor of Dundalk, Ont., and Lethbridge, who taught piano in Drumheller. (one child) She predeceased her husband.

Glengarry News 21 June 1973 * The Hills of Home: Drumheller Valley (1973) 216-218 (with two pictures) * parents’ gravestone, Kenyon Presbyterian cemetery, Dunvegan