====== McColl, Edmund Neil ====== 
 (Jan. 1916-1 Aug. 1984), clergyman. Born in Ottawa. Parents: Edmund Neil McColl and his wife Frances Philips. Edmund Neil McColl the younger was born five months before his father (born near Maxville) was killed in the First World War, the father being one of three brothers killed in the war. Edmund Neil McColl the elder, born 20 July 1881, “died of wounds” 15 June 1916. Edmund Neil McColl the younger, the subject of the present article, served overseas in the Second World War with the Canadian Army Medical Corps. After the war he enrolled in the Montreal Diocesan Theological College. He was ordained as an Anglican clergyman in 1949. After three years of service as an Anglican missionary in the diocese of Athabaska, he served as an Anglican clergyman in two parishes in Quebec Province, and finally was the Anglican clergyman at St. John’s Church, Vankleek Hill, for 8 years beginning in 1972. He spent the last four years of his life in retirement at Maxville. He was active in the work of the Glengarry Historical Society and was the author of several articles on GC history and at the time of his death was chairman of the Glengarry Pioneer Museum committee. He died at the Hawkesbury General Hospital. He was married in 1950 to Evelyn Shiels of Ottawa. (three children) He was the nephew of John Arthur McColl.


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<fs small>//Ottawa Citizen// 2 Aug. 1984, //VKHR// 15 Aug. 1984 (biog. detail, with characteristic portrait) * //Campbell (1990)//, 595, 608-610 * //Maxville (1991) //616-618 * personal information * //Bibliography of Glengarry//: index, for his publications * Patrick Dare, “The Scottish Clergyman Who Speaks French,” //VKHR// 7 May 1980 (interview article, with portrait) * gravestone (QF), as per notes to John Arthur McColl life
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