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| <tab>In March 1904, a proposal was reported to be afoot to form “two independent companies of infantry” in Highland uniform in GC to be permanently maintained in tribute to Dundonald. (//Cornwall Freeholder// 18 March 1904) In the London //Times// of 31 Aug. 1904 Dundonald denied a current report that he had accepted the Conservative nomination for the Glengarry (Canada) parliamentary seat. When the railway contractor John Angus D. D. Mcdonald was buried at Williamstown in 1938, friends and relatives “called at the old homestead, Dundonald.” (//Standard Freeholder// 6 April 1938) Also, Dundonald Cottage, Alexandria, has been noticed various times in the Alexandria press over the years. It is not clear, however, whether these Dundonald names come from the 1903-1904 visits or simply from the historic place Dundonald in Scotland. | <tab>In March 1904, a proposal was reported to be afoot to form “two independent companies of infantry” in Highland uniform in GC to be permanently maintained in tribute to Dundonald. (//Cornwall Freeholder// 18 March 1904) In the London //Times// of 31 Aug. 1904 Dundonald denied a current report that he had accepted the Conservative nomination for the Glengarry (Canada) parliamentary seat. When the railway contractor John Angus D. D. Mcdonald was buried at Williamstown in 1938, friends and relatives “called at the old homestead, Dundonald.” (//Standard Freeholder// 6 April 1938) Also, Dundonald Cottage, Alexandria, has been noticed various times in the Alexandria press over the years. It is not clear, however, whether these Dundonald names come from the 1903-1904 visits or simply from the historic place Dundonald in Scotland. |
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| <tab>It may be guessed, admittedly more on general principles than documentary evidence, that the Glengarrian principally responsible for the Dundonald visits was the well-connected John A. (Jack Greenfield) Macdonell. Macdonell was Dundonald’s travelling companion during the earl’s last six weeks in Canada, and later visited Dundonald in Britain. (See Macdonell’s entry) Macdonell was a Conservative, though hardly a bitter partisan. And more importantly, he was a natural community organizer. (Admittedly, this was a role in which a few of his fellow citizens seem to have resented him.) But in any case, GC political rivalries had some of the artificial intensity of sports rivalries. The rivalries were fierce and showy, but shallow. It was the interest of the community and of friends on either side of the political barrier that always came out first. | <tab>It may be guessed, admittedly more on general principles than documentary evidence, that the Glengarrian principally responsible for the Dundonald visits was the well-connected John A. (Jack Greenfield) Macdonell. Macdonell was Dundonald’s travelling companion during the earl’s last six weeks in Canada, and later visited Dundonald in Britain. (See [[macdonell_john4|Macdonell’s]] entry) Macdonell was a Conservative, though hardly a bitter partisan. And more importantly, he was a natural community organizer. (Admittedly, this was a role in which a few of his fellow citizens seem to have resented him.) But in any case, GC political rivalries had some of the artificial intensity of sports rivalries. The rivalries were fierce and showy, but shallow. It was the interest of the community and of friends on either side of the political barrier that always came out first. |
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