====== Matheson, Alexander Dawson ====== (6 Jan. 1889-27 June 1962), clergyman. (A. D. Matheson, A. Dawson Matheson) Born at Martintown, GC. Parents: Rev. John Matheson and his wife Christy Ann Elizabeth McNaughton. He attended primary school at Martintown and Summerstown, high school at Williamstown and Cornwall, and Cornwall Model School. Afterwards, he taught school at Summerstown 1907-1908, before attending Queen’s University, where he obtained the degrees M.A., 1912, and B.D., 1916. In his student days, he held the Canadian intercollegiate welterweight wrestling championship. On 12 Sept. 1916, he was ordained as a Presbyterian minister. He was a Presbyterian minister at Arundel, Que., and in Montreal, and then from 1922 to 1945 in Quebec City he was first a Presbyterian minister and then a United Church minister at Chalmers Church, which was later renamed Chalmers Wesley Church. From 1945 to 1956 he was principal of Emmanuel College, a United Church theological college at Victoria University, University of Toronto. Besides being principal, he became also in 1945 the professor of homiletics. He received a D.D. degree from McGill University. He died at Toronto General Hospital. Mason. (four children) He was married on 30 Aug. 1916 to Gertrude McCuaig (13 Nov. 1892-6 Nov. 1988), daughter of D.D. McCuaig. Their children included John Ross Matheson (b. 1917), a distinguished Canadian who has kept up his contacts with GC. John Ross Matheson was an MP and judge, and was the principal designer of the Canadian maple leaf flag. Alexander Dawson Matheson was the brother of D.C. Matheson and brother-in-law of S. H. McCuaig and of the physicians C.H., V.C. and D.R. McCuaig, all included in the present dictionary. ---- //Glengarry News// 19 July 1962, //QAR// (July-Aug. 1962), with portrait, and United Church of Canada, Toronto Conference Minutes, 1963 * //National Reference Book on Canadian Personalities// (Canadian Newspaper Service, 9th edn., 1951) 382 (valuable detail, portrait) * //LLC// 229-230 * information kindly supplied by United Church Archives, of Victoria College *obituary of his wife, //QAR// (Jan.-Feb. 1989) * ordained, //GN// 22 Sept. 1916 * John Ross Matheson: Johnson (1968); //Canadian Who’s Who//; many press refs; //QAR// March-April 1995 * Ross & Fraser //McNaughtons//, I, 261-262 [<6>]