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| <tab>Chisholm remained, however, loyal in 1837. He commanded the 3rd Regiment of the GC militia at the time of the suppression of the 1837-1839 Rebellion. The fine appearance of his militia regiment of Highlanders (which had just appeared in Cornwall) is praised in the //Cornwall Observer//, 10 Jan. 1839. He does not seem, however, to have been called on to take a part in the more active campaigning of this period. This need not necessarily be taken as an indication of any official doubts as to his political reliability. A more important factor may have been that the authorities preferred to use the militiamen from the southern half of GC, as more readily assembled and moved to the scene of action than Chisholm’s men from the less developed north. | <tab>Chisholm remained, however, loyal in 1837. He commanded the 3rd Regiment of the GC militia at the time of the suppression of the 1837-1839 Rebellion. The fine appearance of his militia regiment of Highlanders (which had just appeared in Cornwall) is praised in the //Cornwall Observer//, 10 Jan. 1839. He does not seem, however, to have been called on to take a part in the more active campaigning of this period. This need not necessarily be taken as an indication of any official doubts as to his political reliability. A more important factor may have been that the authorities preferred to use the militiamen from the southern half of GC, as more readily assembled and moved to the scene of action than Chisholm’s men from the less developed north. |
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| <tab>Chisholm signed the address of 1832 from the Chisholms of GC to their chief. Chisholm also prepared a list, which has been variously printed and cited, showing the numbers of different clansmen in GC in 1852. (Pringle 196) Chisholm was married to Janet (Jannett on her gravestone) McDonell, daughter of Alexander Macdonell of the Macdonells of Leek. Their children included Fr James J. Chisholm. Alexander Chisholm died at Alexandria. William Lyon Mackenzie published a warm obituary tribute to him in //Mackenzie’s Message// praising his devotion to the public interest and praising his support for the temperance cause which had led him to abstain “from intoxicating liquors under every circumstance.” Chisholm’s house (now demolished) was later the home of the artist Stuart McCormick and the Glengarry Golf Club’s club house. When the McCormicks’ woolen mill, Alexandria, burned in 1949, it was estimated that “Part of the structure dated back 123 years to 1826 when Col. Alex (The Merchant) Chisholm erected it.” (//Glengarry News// 15 July 1949) See also David Tomb. | <tab>Chisholm signed the address of 1832 from the Chisholms of GC to their chief. Chisholm also prepared a list, which has been variously printed and cited, showing the numbers of different clansmen in GC in 1852. (Pringle 196) Chisholm was married to Janet (Jannett on her gravestone) McDonell, daughter of Alexander Macdonell of the Macdonells of Leek. Their children included Fr James J. Chisholm. Alexander Chisholm died at Alexandria. William Lyon Mackenzie published a warm obituary tribute to him in //Mackenzie’s Message// praising his devotion to the public interest and praising his support for the temperance cause which had led him to abstain “from intoxicating liquors under every circumstance.” Chisholm’s house (now demolished) was later the home of the artist Stuart McCormick and the Glengarry Golf Club’s club house. When the McCormicks’ woolen mill, Alexandria, burned in 1949, it was estimated that “Part of the structure dated back 123 years to 1826 when Col. Alex (The Merchant) Chisholm erected it.” (//Glengarry News// 15 July 1949) See also [[tomb_david|David Tomb]]. |
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