| <tab>His two books on the history of Martintown enjoyed a success unusual among GC local histories. Nevertheless, the present author remembers being told, resentfully, that there were people in Martintown better suited to have written them than Rhodes. | <tab>His two books on the history of Martintown enjoyed a success unusual among GC local histories. Nevertheless, the present author remembers being told, resentfully, that there were people in Martintown better suited to have written them than Rhodes. |
| <tab>His brother Charles Smith Grant (11 Sept. 1890-4 Oct. 1978), called Charlie Grant, was also born at Martintown, and attended primary school there, with perhaps no further formal education. In the Canadian West, where he went early in his career, he was a rancher, miner, prospector and contractor. He was in Watson, Sask., in 1907. He was a WWI veteran. About the 1950s he resettled in Martintown, where he operated a woodworking shop. At some point, probably when he resettled in Martintown, the middle-aged Charlie was engaged to an 18-year-old girl in the west. With the miles and separation, however, the romance faded. In 1983 a Toronto publisher had in his possession the manuscript of a novel by Charlie Grant, on the subject of ranching in the West. Charlie’s nephew Grant MacGillivray (see the following) thought the novel was written in a manner too juvenile for an adult audience and too adult for a juvenile readership. Charlie Grant, who never married, lived in Martintown with his brother Rhodes, and died in Cornwall. More active than Rhodes in woodcarving, he made wood models of the bridges at Martintown (including the covered bridge), also wooden model pumps that pumped water, and an operating toy bowling alley. There seems no evidence up to the present date that the Grant brothers’ carvings and models have attracted the interest of collectors, or of the students of such works. (For Charlie, see also W. Sylvester) | <tab>His brother Charles Smith Grant (11 Sept. 1890-4 Oct. 1978), called Charlie Grant, was also born at Martintown, and attended primary school there, with perhaps no further formal education. In the Canadian West, where he went early in his career, he was a rancher, miner, prospector and contractor. He was in Watson, Sask., in 1907. He was a WWI veteran. About the 1950s he resettled in Martintown, where he operated a woodworking shop. At some point, probably when he resettled in Martintown, the middle-aged Charlie was engaged to an 18-year-old girl in the west. With the miles and separation, however, the romance faded. In 1983 a Toronto publisher had in his possession the manuscript of a novel by Charlie Grant, on the subject of ranching in the West. Charlie’s nephew Grant MacGillivray (see the following) thought the novel was written in a manner too juvenile for an adult audience and too adult for a juvenile readership. Charlie Grant, who never married, lived in Martintown with his brother Rhodes, and died in Cornwall. More active than Rhodes in woodcarving, he made wood models of the bridges at Martintown (including the covered bridge), also wooden model pumps that pumped water, and an operating toy bowling alley. There seems no evidence up to the present date that the Grant brothers’ carvings and models have attracted the interest of collectors, or of the students of such works. (For Charlie, see also [[sylvester_william_curty|W. Sylvester]]) |
| <tab>Rhodes and Charlie Grant were the uncles of a well known Glengarrian, Grant MacGillivray (Major, 6th Hussars, retired), who died at Maxville Manor, 3 Nov. 2002, aged 96. Grant MacGillivray, who was born at Kirk Hill, GC, served in the Black Watch and the 6th Hussars, and was employed by Bell Canada. In his retirement years, he was well known in GC in a wide variety of community services. He spoke warmly of how, as a boy, he had found Rhodes Grant a wonderful uncle, the mere half-dozen years between their ages making them easy companions. | <tab>Rhodes and Charlie Grant were the uncles of a well known Glengarrian, Grant MacGillivray (Major, 6th Hussars, retired), who died at Maxville Manor, 3 Nov. 2002, aged 96. Grant MacGillivray, who was born at Kirk Hill, GC, served in the Black Watch and the 6th Hussars, and was employed by Bell Canada. In his retirement years, he was well known in GC in a wide variety of community services. He spoke warmly of how, as a boy, he had found Rhodes Grant a wonderful uncle, the mere half-dozen years between their ages making them easy companions. |
