(11 or 15 Feb.1841-25 Nov. 1916), clergyman. (Rev. G. Munro) Born at Dalhousie Mills, CC. His father George Munro was a native of Scotland. Gustavus Munro was educated at McGill University and at the Presbyterian College in Montreal. On 19 Aug. 1873 he was ordained as minister of Knox Church, Embro, Ont., in Zorra Township, Oxford County. The week following his induction he was married to Mary McCuaig, also of GC. At Embro, “for many years he had three services on Sunday, two in English and one in Gaelic…” The historian of his Embro years found the life of a minister of that time demanding, especially “when looked at from these latter days of fine roads and motor travel. Horses broke down under the strain and buggies and buckboards went to pieces, but the minister went on.” Munro left Embro in 1891, after a pastorate of 18 years. The Rev. Daniel Gordon, it may be noticed, was minister of another Zorra Township church, at nearby Harrington, during about the same years, from 1871 to 1891. After several further pastorates, Munro retired to London, Ont., where he became an assistant pastor. In 1901 he received an honorary Doctor of Divinity degree from the Presbyterian College at McGill. He died at his home in London, Ont. (six children) His sister was married to Donald MacIntosh the lumberman. The outline of the Rev. Gustavus Munro’s life by “G.M.” (presumably his son, another Rev. Gustavus Munro) in W.D. McIntosh’s One Hundred Years in the Zorra Church [Knox United, Embro] (1930) is vividly written, and is in all senses a masterful short sketch of a devout, active, unassuming Presbyterian minister of the time.

Glengarry News 22 Dec. 1916 * obituary, The Acts and Proceedings of the Forty-Third General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in Canada (1917) 551 * G.M. in McIntosh vol. as cited (pp. 161-164, portrait) (QF) * Donald A. MacLaurin, McIntosh/Munro Family (1986)