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| <tab>E. H. Tiffany was made a Q. C. in 1896. (//Glengarry News// 17 July 1896) He died at the Royal Victoria Hospital, Montreal, predeceased by his wife. Burial was in the Protestant cemetery, Alexandria. Tiffany was a Presbyterian and a Mason. For thirty years he was organist of the Presbyterian church in Alexandria. He was a skilled violin player, and fond of jokes, but was often unsuccessful in getting other people to see the point of them. Clarence Ostrom says the term “Tiffany Joke” came into use locally to designate a failed joke. In the age of GC nicknames, a certain MacDonald was known as Tiffany Number Two. Evidently no technological reactionary, about 1892 Tiffany installed what are believed to have been the first telephones in Alexandria, one in his home and one in his office. Many clients, he told Clarence Ostrom, were amazed at someone speaking into a mechanical device. | <tab>E. H. Tiffany was made a Q. C. in 1896. (//Glengarry News// 17 July 1896) He died at the Royal Victoria Hospital, Montreal, predeceased by his wife. Burial was in the Protestant cemetery, Alexandria. Tiffany was a Presbyterian and a Mason. For thirty years he was organist of the Presbyterian church in Alexandria. He was a skilled violin player, and fond of jokes, but was often unsuccessful in getting other people to see the point of them. Clarence Ostrom says the term “Tiffany Joke” came into use locally to designate a failed joke. In the age of GC nicknames, a certain MacDonald was known as Tiffany Number Two. Evidently no technological reactionary, about 1892 Tiffany installed what are believed to have been the first telephones in Alexandria, one in his home and one in his office. Many clients, he told Clarence Ostrom, were amazed at someone speaking into a mechanical device. |
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| <tab>Tiffany was the author of //The Law of Registration of Titles in Ontario; Being an Annotation of ‘The Registry Act’// (pp. xvii, 490; Toronto and Edinburgh, Carswell and Co., Law Publishers, 1881). Harkness in 1946 thought it “still a very useful book of reference.” A copy of this volume sold for $100 in the 1970s. A letter of Tiffany’s to the Montreal //Gazette// appears in //The Coteau Bridge Controversy// booklet of 1880) (see Sir Donald Macmaster). The fact that in the early 1880s Tiffany was president of the Mechanics’ Institute (i.e., library) in Alexandria presumably indicates some sympathy for literature. He wrote (as did Ralph Connor: C. W. Gordon) a lukewarm testimonial for the Rev. John D. McEwen’s pamphlet //Glimpses of South America// (1914?), printed in the list of testimonials at the end of McEwan’s //Brazil// (1916). From this, it would seem that both Tiffany and Connor had mastered the art of faint praise. At the beginning of World War I Tiffany wrote the “Canadian War Hymn,” which he dated at Alexandria 11 Aug. 1914. (printed //Cornwall Standard //30 Aug. 1914) | <tab>Tiffany was the author of //The Law of Registration of Titles in Ontario; Being an Annotation of ‘The Registry Act’// (pp. xvii, 490; Toronto and Edinburgh, Carswell and Co., Law Publishers, 1881). Harkness in 1946 thought it “still a very useful book of reference.” A copy of this volume sold for $100 in the 1970s. A letter of Tiffany’s to the Montreal //Gazette// appears in //The Coteau Bridge Controversy// booklet of 1880) (see [[macmaster_sir_donald|Sir Donald Macmaster]]). The fact that in the early 1880s Tiffany was president of the Mechanics’ Institute (i.e., library) in Alexandria presumably indicates some sympathy for literature. He wrote (as did Ralph Connor: C. W. Gordon) a lukewarm testimonial for the Rev. John D. McEwen’s pamphlet //Glimpses of South America// (1914?), printed in the list of testimonials at the end of McEwan’s //Brazil// (1916). From this, it would seem that both Tiffany and Connor had mastered the art of faint praise. At the beginning of World War I Tiffany wrote the “Canadian War Hymn,” which he dated at Alexandria 11 Aug. 1914. (printed //Cornwall Standard //30 Aug. 1914) |
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| <tab>He was married to Annie Gertrude Pringle (Gertrude Pringle), who died 29 June 1893, in the 43rd year of her age. (two children) Her father was James Dunbar Pringle, the brother of Judge Pringle, and her grandfather was Col. Alexander Fraser of Fraserfield. Through this marriage, Tiffany became linked with not only the Pringles and the Frasers of Fraserfield, but also with the Sandfield Macdonalds and the family connection of Sheriff D.E. McIntyre. One of their children, Dr George Sylvester Tiffany, who worked for the Sun Life Assurance Co., was a physician with a McGill medical degree (1898) but did not practise. | <tab>He was married to Annie Gertrude Pringle (Gertrude Pringle), who died 29 June 1893, in the 43rd year of her age. (two children) Her father was James Dunbar Pringle, the brother of Judge Pringle, and her grandfather was Col. Alexander Fraser of Fraserfield. Through this marriage, Tiffany became linked with not only the Pringles and the Frasers of Fraserfield, but also with the Sandfield Macdonalds and the family connection of Sheriff D.E. McIntyre. One of their children, Dr George Sylvester Tiffany, who worked for the Sun Life Assurance Co., was a physician with a McGill medical degree (1898) but did not practise. |
