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| <tab>Besides his involvement in provincial politics, he had served as councillor and reeve in Charlottenburgh Township. Rayside was one of three men who contributed $100 each to the founding of the //Glengarry Times// newspaper. (//Glengarry Times// 24 Dec. 1880) | <tab>Besides his involvement in provincial politics, he had served as councillor and reeve in Charlottenburgh Township. Rayside was one of three men who contributed $100 each to the founding of the //Glengarry Times// newspaper. (//Glengarry Times// 24 Dec. 1880) |
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| <tab>Rayside’s highly-successful political career saw one of the relatively rare but not unknown clerical interventions in GC 19th-century politics (for other examples, see Fr John McLachlan and Fr A. Langcake). In the 1886 GC provincial election, Bishop Cleary intervened with a pro-Mowat pastoral letter which led //The Toronto Daily Mail//, 29 Dec. 1886, to say that “Bishop Cleary returned Mr. Rayside over Mr. McLennan in Glengarry.” Sir Oliver Mowat was the Liberal premier, and GC was still a part of Cleary’s diocese of Kingston. Addressing the electors of GC, McLennan made a measured reply to these developments: “Of course I regret that the contest became so unequal at the last, and that the humble exertions of my friends were pitted against, not merely my political opponents, but the mandate of the learned and Right Rev. Bishop of Kingston. I had hoped that I deserved better treatment at his lordship’s hands, and that he might have trusted me to give my vigorous opposition to any injustice to his flock in Glengarry or elsewhere, if anything of the kind were attempted.” (//The Toronto Daily Mail//, 8 Jan. 1887) Rayside himself had stated, two years before in the Ontario legislature, that he had never known a Roman Catholic priest in GC “to interfere with the elections directly or indirectly.” (Toronto //Globe//, 2 Feb. 1884) | <tab>Rayside’s highly-successful political career saw one of the relatively rare but not unknown clerical interventions in GC 19th-century politics (for other examples, see [[mclachlan_john|Fr John McLachlan]] and [[langcake_augustus|Fr A. Langcake]]). In the 1886 GC provincial election, Bishop Cleary intervened with a pro-Mowat pastoral letter which led //The Toronto Daily Mail//, 29 Dec. 1886, to say that “Bishop Cleary returned Mr. Rayside over Mr. McLennan in Glengarry.” Sir Oliver Mowat was the Liberal premier, and GC was still a part of Cleary’s diocese of Kingston. Addressing the electors of GC, McLennan made a measured reply to these developments: “Of course I regret that the contest became so unequal at the last, and that the humble exertions of my friends were pitted against, not merely my political opponents, but the mandate of the learned and Right Rev. Bishop of Kingston. I had hoped that I deserved better treatment at his lordship’s hands, and that he might have trusted me to give my vigorous opposition to any injustice to his flock in Glengarry or elsewhere, if anything of the kind were attempted.” (//The Toronto Daily Mail//, 8 Jan. 1887) Rayside himself had stated, two years before in the Ontario legislature, that he had never known a Roman Catholic priest in GC “to interfere with the elections directly or indirectly.” (Toronto //Globe//, 2 Feb. 1884) |
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| <tab>An obituary noted that “The disease to which he fell a victim was one of several years’ standing. His magnificent physique and sound constitution, it was hoped, would enable him to overcome the ailment, but although he was treated by the best specialists of New York and Montreal, all was in vain. In appearance Mr. Rayside was a typical Glengarrian. Tall of stature and broad-shouldered, he was a prominent figure in the legislative halls at Toronto until his declining health compelled him to retire from political life.” (ASC ii, 167) . He was a Presbyterian. His wife, who survived him, died 17 March 1911, aged 70, at her home, Inkerman Cottage, South Lancaster. Their daughter Janet was married to the Rev. J.U. Tanner. Another daughter, Edith Rayside, is noticed separately in this dictionary, and a son, James Stuart Rayside (Stuart Rayside) (1874-1951) was a noted athlete and a Montreal businessman. He was inaugurated into the Glengarry Sports Hall of Fame in 1980. | <tab>An obituary noted that “The disease to which he fell a victim was one of several years’ standing. His magnificent physique and sound constitution, it was hoped, would enable him to overcome the ailment, but although he was treated by the best specialists of New York and Montreal, all was in vain. In appearance Mr. Rayside was a typical Glengarrian. Tall of stature and broad-shouldered, he was a prominent figure in the legislative halls at Toronto until his declining health compelled him to retire from political life.” (ASC ii, 167) . He was a Presbyterian. His wife, who survived him, died 17 March 1911, aged 70, at her home, Inkerman Cottage, South Lancaster. Their daughter Janet was married to the Rev. J.U. Tanner. Another daughter, Edith Rayside, is noticed separately in this dictionary, and a son, James Stuart Rayside (Stuart Rayside) (1874-1951) was a noted athlete and a Montreal businessman. He was inaugurated into the Glengarry Sports Hall of Fame in 1980. |
