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 <tab>Her father died in 1912, when she was 41 years old. She then sold the Dalcrombie property and settled in Toronto. There she held a a civil service position as clerk-typist in the Ontario Archives from 1913 till her retirement in 1926 or 1929. The papers of Alexander Fraser, provincial archivist, show that John A. Macdonell (Jack Greenfield), who was her relative, and Donald M. Robertson pulled strings to get her the archives job, and that it helped that Premier Sir James Whitney was an old friend of her father. With some aristocratic self confidence, in 1919, Jack Greenfield borrowed her back from the archives for some considerable period of time to act as his housekeeper and hostess when he was staging his 1919 soldiers’ day celebrations, which he expected would include the visit of General A. C. Macdonell. Later that year, Jack Greenfield wrote to Fraser saying that Miss MacGillivray, while with him, “has been busy getting into shape” material she had collected on the early history of GC. Greenfield wanted Fraser to encourage her in this project, and believed that the material should be published in some form. “I am leaving for Scotland on Friday morning and she goes up on Monday (Labor Day) so as to be able to report for duty on Tuesday morning.” A 1923 document said she had the rank of Senior Clerk Typist and was “Engaged chiefly in grouping, sorting, and entering papers and documents received from the various departments of the Government. She furnishes typed copies when required.”
-<tab>During the First World War, she was active (and served as president) in a Toronto war-support organization called the Glengarry Women’s Auxiliary, which is mentioned a number of times in the GC-area press. She is said to have made her last visit to GC about 1926. The purpose of the visit was to gather infomation for her forthcoming novel. On this occasion, she was shown around the grounds of Iona Academy by Sister Mary Clair Macdonald. If rumour is of any value, it is worth reporting that she is said to have lost money in the 1929 crash, but to have done well in operating her Bloor Street East home as a rooming house in Toronto during the economic boom created by the Second World War. She died in Western Hospital, Toronto, and was buried in the McGillivray plot (which up to this time, surprisingly, had no gravestone to mark the resting place of a distinguished family) at St. Andrew’s cemetery, Williamstown. A gravestone was placed there in 1972 (see life of her grandfather, the Hon. John McGillivray). Carrie Holmes MacGillivray did, however, create a fitting memorial to the family by putting a large and valuable collection of the family papers in the National Archives, Ottawa, after her father’s death. These papers are referred to by the abbreviation NAC-MD in the source notes to the present dictionary. Her novel was dedicated to the memory of her father, and by her will she founded a Queen’s University scholarship fund in memory of her parents but to be known as the George Hopper MacGillivray Scholarship Fund.
+<tab>During the First World War, she was active (and served as president) in a Toronto war-support organization called the Glengarry Women’s Auxiliary, which is mentioned a number of times in the GC-area press. She is said to have made her last visit to GC about 1926. The purpose of the visit was to gather infomation for her forthcoming novel. On this occasion, she was shown around the grounds of Iona Academy by Sister Mary Clair Macdonald. If rumour is of any value, it is worth reporting that she is said to have lost money in the 1929 crash, but to have done well in operating her Bloor Street East home as a rooming house in Toronto during the economic boom created by the Second World War. She died in Western Hospital, Toronto, and was buried in the McGillivray plot (which up to this time, surprisingly, had no gravestone to mark the resting place of a distinguished family) at St. Andrew’s cemetery, Williamstown. A gravestone was placed there in 1972 (see life of her grandfather, the [[mcgillivray_john|Hon. John McGillivray]]). Carrie Holmes MacGillivray did, however, create a fitting memorial to the family by putting a large and valuable collection of the family papers in the National Archives, Ottawa, after her father’s death. These papers are referred to by the abbreviation NAC-MD in the source notes to the present dictionary. Her novel was dedicated to the memory of her father, and by her will she founded a Queen’s University scholarship fund in memory of her parents but to be known as the George Hopper MacGillivray Scholarship Fund.
-<tab>She was the author of a well-informed historical novel set in pioneer GC, //The Shadow of Tradition: a Tale of Old Glengarry//. First published by The Graphic Publishers, of Ottawa, in 1927, it was reprinted by McClelland and Stewart, of Toronto, in 1945, with the Scottish dialect of the original edition mostly modernized. An early version of this novel, or at least contributory to it, must have been the historical collections of 1919 mentioned by J. A. Macdonell. She also wrote a novel on the Métis and the 1885 North-West Rebellion called //The Prairie Star//. It has remained unpublished, but there are MS copies at McGill and Queen’s, and in private ownership. The papers of archivist Fraser contain carbons of three letters of 12 March 1930, presumably from Fraser, introducing Miss MacGillivray, for many years an employee of the archives staff, and now going to London, Eng. with a view to publishing “a story of early life in the western Provinces.” For her novels, see also Judge Ian Macdonell.
+<tab>She was the author of a well-informed historical novel set in pioneer GC, //The Shadow of Tradition: a Tale of Old Glengarry//. First published by The Graphic Publishers, of Ottawa, in 1927, it was reprinted by McClelland and Stewart, of Toronto, in 1945, with the Scottish dialect of the original edition mostly modernized. An early version of this novel, or at least contributory to it, must have been the historical collections of 1919 mentioned by J. A. Macdonell. She also wrote a novel on the Métis and the 1885 North-West Rebellion called //The Prairie Star//. It has remained unpublished, but there are MS copies at McGill and Queen’s, and in private ownership. The papers of archivist Fraser contain carbons of three letters of 12 March 1930, presumably from Fraser, introducing Miss MacGillivray, for many years an employee of the archives staff, and now going to London, Eng. with a view to publishing “a story of early life in the western Provinces.” For her novels, see also [[macdonell_ian_mclean|Judge Ian Macdonell]].