(2 Mar. 1898-8 Mar. 1969), physician. (Alec MacGillivay, Dr A. M. MacGillivray) Born at Kirk Hill, GC. Parents: Alexander John MacGillivray and his wife Kate McLeod. He attended the local primary school (Pine Grove Public School), Vankleek Hill Collegiate Institute, and McGill University, getting his medical degree from the latter in 1921. He had his medical practice at Martintown, GC, from late 1922 till about the end of 1932. The well-known Cornwall physician Dr J. A. Tallon, in a warm obituary tribute to MacGillivray, noted that MacGillivray had been a Martintown general practitioner in the era when country physicians were still heavily dependent on the horse. From other recollections it appears that MacGillivray was noted at this time for quality horses, and also his love of hunting. Rhodes Grant remembered him as “another wonderful doctor.” During approximately 1933-1934, for about two years, Dr MacGillivray studied radiology in London, Eng., at a hospital specializing in cancer and at Charing Cross Hospital. In 1937, he was appointed radiologist at the Cornwall (Ont.) General Hospital. (Standard Freeholder 27 Oct. 1937, Glengarry News 29 Oct. 1937). Before going to Cornwall, he had been a radiologist at the General Hospital of Woodstock , Ont. In Cornwall, over the next thirty years, besides being the radiologist at the General Hospital, and for a time the only radiologist in the city, he worked in a consultant capacity for the Hotel Dieu Hospital and the St. Lawrence Sanitorium. He was married at Portneuf, Que., 19 July 1924, to Katherine McLaren Ford, of Portneuf. (four children) He died at Cornwall General Hospital. He is buried at the Kirk Hill West Church cemetery.
Glengarry News 13 March 1969 * private information * Grant, Martintown, ii, 70, 131 * Martintown & London: Cornwall Freeholder 7 Dec. 1922, GN 15 Dec. 1922, 16 Dec. 1932, 23 June 1933, 20 July 1934