(1890-1976), heritage worker. (A.L. Dunlop, Llewella Dunlop, inevitably, and by error, Louella Dunlop) Parents: Alexander A. Dunlop and his wife Annie MacKillop. Alexander A. Dunlop (d. 27 March 1931), the father of the subject of the present entry, was born at South Lancaster, GC, but operated a bakery in Williamstown for 45 years. One of his children was John J. Dunlop. Miss A. Llewella Dunlop, who never married, was for many years a music teacher in Williamstown-area schools. She is buried in St. Andrew’s cemetery, Williamstown. Active in work for the preservation of Williamstown area historic sites, she strove for increased public awareness of them through the establishment of plaques and by other means. Much of this work was done at a time when interest in heritage issues was low. The apathy of that time contrasted with the concern standard among enlightened people by the time of Miss Dunlop’s death. She had a prominent part in having the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada declare the Sir John Johnson House in Williamstown a place of national significance and in keeping it from being taken down and removed to Upper Canada Village. For a number of years around 1950 she wrote occasional articles on Williamstown’s history and historical sites and other GC-area topics for the Cornwall Standard-Freeholder. For example, she wrote on the Bethune-Thompson House (Standard Freeholder 15 Nov. 1947), on St. Mary’s and St. Andrew’s at Williamstown (SFH 6 Dec. 1947, 17 Jan. 1948), on the River Raisin as a pioneer waterway (SFH 27 March 1948), and on Fr Alexander Macdonell of Scotus (SFH 1 May 1948). In 1949 she addressed a group of 60 members of the Ottawa Women’s Historical Society who were touring Williamstown. Evidently she was a somewhat stern old lady, and David G. Anderson in a printed tribute to her tells the story of how she firmly ordered a group of bikers (motorcyclists) who had stopped in Williamstown to move on. (GHS Newsletter June 1995) Her aunt Miss Margaret Helen MacKillop, who died at the age of 91 in 1957, was a graduate of the Model School for training teachers at Martintown and had for three years nursed Mrs Leonowens, the heroine of the Anna and the King of Siam story. (For Mrs Leonowens, see also Dr Richard Monahan)
Llewella Dunlop’s brother, Alexander Livingstone Dunlop (b. Williamstown, 1897), remembered years later affectionately by Gertrude Wood as having been one of her 7-year old students, died in the sinking by enemy action, 27 June 1918, of the Canadian-chartered hospital ship Llandovery Castle, on which he was one of the medical personnel as a private in the Canadian Army Medical Corps, being apparently the only GC native to die in that tragic event.
Williamstown 200 (1983) 44, 45, 84 * Fraser, Gravestones I, 134 (parents only) * Dumbrille, U, 37 * Bibliography of Glengarry p. 87 * undated historical articles by her from Standard Freeholder in scrapbooks of Williamstown area origin owned by the present editor and cited in notes here as WSC (it is possible she owned these scrapbooks, or some part of them) * History of St. Andrew’s United Church at Williamstown (1987?) 17 (1949 tour; she “has done considerable history writing”) * obituary, report on funeral, of her father, Cornwall Freeholder 28 March, 1 April 1931 * obituary of Margaret Helen MacKillop, SFH 28 Oct. 1957 * president of United Church W. M. S., SFH 10 Dec. 1947 * Alexander Livingstone Dunlop and Llandovery Castle: Wood 2 July 1976, 16 April 1977; his attestation paper, NAC; Commonwealth War Graves Commission’s biog. * The Sinking of the H.M.H.S. Llandovery Castle (Ottawa, Issued by Authority of Director of Public Information, [1918?] pp. 8); NY Times 2 July 1918 has a vividly written front page story of the sinking