====== Munro, James Howard ====== 
 (26 May 1881-5 Nov. 1960), physician. (Dr J. Howard Munro, Dr Howard Munro, Dr Howard) Born at Dominionville, GC. Parents: Dr James T. Munro and his wife Christena Robertson. He attended Maxville Public School, Alexandria High School, Ottawa Collegiate Institute, and McGill University (medical degree, spring of 1903). He took postgraduate studies in medicine in Scotland, then in Nov. 1903 he was back home from Edinburgh and visiting his parents in Maxville, and was reported to be planning to go to Germany for further medical studies. (//Glengarry News// 27 Nov. 1903 ) The following winter he took over his father’s practice in Maxville, while his father wintered in California. (//GN// 16 Dec. 1904 and 24 March 1905) In the spring of 1905, he left Maxville and set up a medical practice at nearby Greenfield. (//GN// 21 April and 4 May 1905) Again, in 1907, he settled in Maxville to take over his father’s practice while the latter was in California. (//GN// 9 Aug. 1907) In 1910 Dr J. Howard bought a well known property, “The Pines,” in Alexandria, with occupation on 1 August. Around this time, he practised medicine in Alexandria for about six months. It appears to have been immediately after this that he went to California for reasons of health.

<tab>He served in WWI in Bermuda as a medical officer of the 38th Battalion, and afterwards in France with the 213th Regiment. He is said also to have served in the French Army during this war. He received the Croix de Guerre from the French government. (For another Maxville winner of this honour, see [[hunter_edward|Edward Hunter]]) From the end of the war, Dr Munro’s home and career were in Maxville, where he practised medicine and was deeply involved in local affairs. He was reeve of Maxville from 1928 to 1932 and from 1937 to 1947, and warden of SDG in 1931. He was interested in conservation issues and was one of the founders of an organization called the Ontario Conservation and Reforestation Association. From 1908 he was a coroner of SDG. In 1953 he was honoured at a testimonial banquet at Maxville on the 50th anniversary of his becoming a physician. (//Glengarry News// 24 Sept. 1953 ) He was married to Edna R. McCracken (1894-1974). Dr Munro died at his home in Maxville. Mason. He and his father made up one of the three remarkable father-son combinations which we find practising medicine in Maxville in this period. (For the others, see [[macdiarmid_donald|Dr Donald]] and [[macdiarmid_william_burton|Dr W.B. MacDiarmid]], and [[mcewen_duncan|Dr Duncan]] and [[mcewen_bennett_begg|Dr Bennett McEwan]]) In his photographs he resembles the novelist James Joyce.


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<fs small>//Glengarry News// 10 Nov. 1960 * //Maxville (1991) //297-298, 302, 305, 313, 343-344 (poem by), 347 (1918 Maxville phone directory for the Drs Munro, father and son), 617-618, 774-778 * Campbell, Tannis and Stewart, //MacDougalls//, 223-226 (portrait), 713-714 * Harkness 499, 502 (portrait) * //Prominent People of the Province of Ontario// (1925) 172 * Boss 60 * Ostrom 241 * Alexandria period: //GN// 22 April and 20 May 1910; Ostrom * detailed report on 1953 banquet, //Standard Freeholder//, ND * buys Ford car, //GN// 8 and 15 May 1914 * takes course on use of insulin, //GN// 25 May 1923 * involved in project of public park on Hamilton Island, //GN// 1 May 1931 * //Ottawa Citizen// lightheartedly welcomes Munro back to reeveship, repr. //GN// 21 Jan. 1938 from //Ottawa Citizen// * one of speakers at plowing match at Bainsville, //GN// 6 Oct. 1939 * speaks to Alexandria Chamber of Commerce re Eastern Ontario Health Unit, //GN// 6 Oct. 1939 * member of local ration board, //GN// 20 Nov. 1942 * his observations on South Nation River at annual meeting of Ontario Conservation and Reforestation Association, //GN// 13 July 1945 
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