(20 April 1905-April 1982), businessman. (Clark Hoople) Born presumably at Maxville. Parents: Robert John Hoople (R. J. Hoople, John Hoople) (1883-1927) and his wife Christena A. V. Clark (Victoria Clark) (1885-1976). Clark Hoople was an undertaker in Maxville, and at the same time operated a tinsmith and plumbing business, also in Maxville. He was coach of the Maxville Millionaires hockey team, taking the position at the request of Osie Villeneuve, who had formerly been the coach. Clark Hoople was one of the organizers of the revival of the Glengarry Highland Games in 1948, and of the Glengarry Highland Games that followed annually thereafter. In a front page notice of the organizers of the 1948 event, the Glengarry News 6 Aug. 1948 listed him as one of those who “bore the brunt of the organization work.” Clark Hoople died in Florida. He married (1) Mary Begg, of Moose Creek, one child and (2) Anne Tabram, of Cornwall. Clark Hoople was the grandson of Johnson Hoople, and represented the third generation of the Hoople family to be in the undertaking business in Maxville.
Maxville (1991) 139, 307, 308, 318-320, 581 * MacGillivray & Ross 572 * obituary tribute, with biog. data, by Angus H. McDonell, “Coach Clark Hoople in Retrospect,” Glengarry News 14 April 1982 * sketch of Hoople family businesses, Winter GN 19 June 1996 * sources on Hoople family as in biog. for Johnson Hoople * Montgomery 328-329 * Laing 12, 16 (portrait) * studies embalming, GN 2 March 1923, buys building, GN 9 March 1945