(27 Dec. 1885-24 Sept. 1970), physician. Born at Avonmore, Stormont County. Parents: Duncan D. MacIntyre and his wife Helen Hunter. He attended the local primary school, continuation school at Avonmore, and high school and model school (teachers’ school) at Cornwall, then taught school for two years before entering McGill University to study medicine. His medical degree was from McGill in 1913. After practising medicine at West Shefford, Que., till 1915, he served overseas in the Canadian Medical Corps in WWI. After the war he took a course in obstetrics in Boston. He established his medical practice at Vankleek Hill in 1919, and continued it there for nearly half a century till he retired at the end of 1968. He was not a Glengarrian, but being based at Vankleek Hill made him one of the physicians for the people of northeastern GC. United Church. Mason. Active in community activities, he worked in support of the library, the Vankleek Hill Collegiate Institute, the Vankleek Hill Fair, and sports. Dr MacIntyre died at his home in Vankleek Hill. He was married, late in life, on 8 Sept. 1955 to Mary Helen Rutherford, a high school teacher at Vankleek Hill Collegiate Institute who served as acting principal of that school during WWII. She was born at Hawkesbury 31 Jan. 1888 and died at Maxville Manor, 21 Dec. 1975.
Glengarry News 8 Oct. 1970 * obituary of his wife GN 15 Jan. 1976 (also death notice, Ottawa Citizen 23 Dec. 1975) * Alan D. MacKinnon, ed., Vankleek Hill Collegiate Institute 1890-1990 (1990), various refs. to Dr & Mrs MacIntyre * Worrall 42-43; also 109-115: “Dr. MacIntyre’s Dream,” text of spoof history, perhaps by this Dr MacIntyre, probably delivered as after-dinner speech