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| <tab>Crushed by the death of her son, John Edwin Gardiner of the RCAF, in the Dieppe Raid in August 1942, Violet Gardiner committed suicide in Ottawa a little more than two years later by drowning in the Rideau Canal. Another of their sons, Wilfrid, was later a member of the Saskatchewan Legislature and a provincial cabinet minister. John Edwin’s //Letters Home: The Wartime Correspondence and Diary//, ed. David E. Smith, was published 2004 by the Canadian Plains Research Center, University of Regina. The widowed J. G. Gardiner remarried in 1946, but his association with Maxville continued. He attended the funeral, 1947, of ex-MP Dr W. B. MacDiarmid. When Mackenzie King opened the Glengarry Highland Games at Maxville in 1948 Gardiner also came to Maxville. On that occasion he donated a band trophy in memory of his son John Edwin and of Violet, a native of Maxville. (//Glengarry News// 6 Aug. 1948) In 1951, Gardiner himself opened the Glengarry Highland Games at Maxville. Gardiner was an unsuccessful contender for the Liberal Party leadership in 1948. He died at Balcarres, Sask. A four-part CBC mini-series called //Prairie Giant: the Tommy Douglas Story//, of 2006, was withdrawn from circulation on DVD on recognition that its depiction of Gardiner was unfair. | <tab>Crushed by the death of her son, John Edwin Gardiner of the RCAF, in the Dieppe Raid in August 1942, Violet Gardiner committed suicide in Ottawa a little more than two years later by drowning in the Rideau Canal. Another of their sons, Wilfrid, was later a member of the Saskatchewan Legislature and a provincial cabinet minister. John Edwin’s //Letters Home: The Wartime Correspondence and Diary//, ed. David E. Smith, was published 2004 by the Canadian Plains Research Center, University of Regina. The widowed J. G. Gardiner remarried in 1946, but his association with Maxville continued. He attended the funeral, 1947, of ex-MP Dr W. B. MacDiarmid. When Mackenzie King opened the Glengarry Highland Games at Maxville in 1948 Gardiner also came to Maxville. On that occasion he donated a band trophy in memory of his son John Edwin and of Violet, a native of Maxville. (//Glengarry News// 6 Aug. 1948) In 1951, Gardiner himself opened the Glengarry Highland Games at Maxville. Gardiner was an unsuccessful contender for the Liberal Party leadership in 1948. He died at Balcarres, Sask. A four-part CBC mini-series called //Prairie Giant: the Tommy Douglas Story//, of 2006, was withdrawn from circulation on DVD on recognition that its depiction of Gardiner was unfair. |
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| <tab>For another GC wife of a Prairie Provinces premier, see Mrs R.G. Reid. See also for a state governor’s wife from Maxville Mrs J.G. Pollard. For another GC connection with Gardiner, see [[mcrae_donald_alexander|Donald Alexander McRae]], singer. | <tab>For another GC wife of a Prairie Provinces premier, see [[reid_richard_gavin|Mrs R.G. Reid]]. See also for a state governor’s wife from Maxville [[pollard_mrs_violet_elizabeth|Mrs J.G. Pollard]]. For another GC connection with Gardiner, see [[mcrae_donald_alexander|Donald Alexander McRae]], singer. |
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| <tab>Gardiner’s third wife, Maude Isabell Scott (d. 1964), was the widow of Dr Hugh Herbert Christie, a Glengarrian, and is buried with her first husband, Dr Christie, at the North Branch cemetery, Martintown, GC. | <tab>Gardiner’s third wife, Maude Isabell Scott (d. 1964), was the widow of Dr Hugh Herbert Christie, a Glengarrian, and is buried with her first husband, Dr Christie, at the North Branch cemetery, Martintown, GC. |
