(28 Jan. 1877-weekend of 7 July 1962), veterinarian. (Dr D. A. Irvine, Duncan A. Irvine, V.S.) Born at Breadalbane, GC. Parents: Duncan Irvine and his wife Elizabeth or Isabella Stewart, emigrants from Scotland to Canada. D. A. Irvine, the subject of the present article, attended primary school at Dalkeith, and high school at Vankleek Hill, and the Ontario Veterinary College, from which he graduated in 1898. He practised as a veterinarian at Maxville, and was afterwards employed by the Health of Animals Branch of the Dept. of Agriculture, and then, from 1929 till the year before his death, he practised as a veterinarian at Vankleek Hill. He lived to be one of Ontario’s longest-serving veterinarians. At Maxville, he served on the village council, and he was a reeve of Vankleek Hill. He was a Baptist and a Mason. He was married to Ella K. Campbell (1879-1968), of Breadalbane. If there were children, none survived him.
Glengarry News 12 July 1962 * Maxville (1991) 376 (group portrait), 783 * gravestone, Breadalbane cemetery * obituary of his brother Neil Irvine, GN 11 Feb. 1938 * Winter GN 2 April 1997 (Maxville council)