====== Leitch, Archibald ====== (28 Oct. 1882-29 Dec. 1959), agricultural expert. (A. Leitch, Archie Leitch, Professor Leitch) Born on a farm near Cornwall, on the South Branch. Probably he was not a Glengarrian but instead born just outside the county. Parents: David Leitch and his wife Annie MacLennan. In 1898 young Archibald Leitch lost his arm in an accident with an ensilage cutter. (20 Years Ago column, //Cornwall Freeholder// 26 Sept. 1918) Leitch graduated from Ontario Agricultural College (OAC) in 1905, taught at Iowa State College, and was an employee and teacher from 1915 to 1928 at OAC. In 1928 he resigned from OAC to found an organization called the Canadian Tobacco Growers’ Industry. In 1935, under the government of Prime Minister R.B. Bennett, he became chairman of the Dominion Farm Marketing Board, succeeding another near-Glengarrian, G.S.H. Barton. (//Standard Freeholder// 25 Jan. 1935) In 1943, Leitch was appointed chairman of the Ontario government’s Agricultural Commission of Enquiry. In 1944 a special committee of the commission was planning to visit Eastern Ontario. (//SFH// 25 Sept. 1943, 21 March 1944) This commission issued a 76-page report dated 22 Jan. 1945. Also, Leitch was, till his retirement in 1948, chairman of the Ontario Flue Cured Tobacco Growers Association. Raised on a farm, and dedicated to agriculture in practice as well as theory, he was himself a tobacco grower. He was the author of various publications in agriculture, including //The Dairy Farm// (Toronto, Musson, 1920). His death was in Florida. Married. Presbyterian. Mason. He was the nephew of Justice James Leitch. ---- Information from University of Guelph Archives * //Can. Who’s Who// 1936-7 p. 628 * arm: 20 Years Ago column, //Cornwall Freeholder// 26 Sept. 1918 * biog. information, portrait, //Standard Freeholder// 25 & 30 Jan. 1935, 1 Feb. 1935 * Hazel I. MacTaggart, //Publications of the Government of Ontario 1901-1955// (1964) 15, 25, 26 * //Bibliography of Glengarry// 34 * Ontario Legislative Library, //Royal Commissions and Commissions of Inquiry for the Provinces of Upper Canada, Canada and Ontario, 1792 to 1991: A Checklist of Reports// (1992) [<6>]