(1900-22 Dec. 1983), cattle breeder. (Carlyle Watt, J. C. Watt) Born at St-Louis-de-Gonzague, Que. Parents: Alexander (Sandy) Watt (1871-1932) and his wife Alice McKell (1873-1932). J. Carlyle Watt came to GC with his parents in 1903. From that time the Watt family lived at Maple Crest Farm, north of Lancaster. Before taking over Maple Crest Farm in succession to his father, J. Carlyle Watt worked for two years as herdsman with the distinguished Ayrshire herd of Alta Crest Farm, Spencer, Mass.. J. Carlyle Watt became a noted Ayrshire breeder, exhibiting his cattle at fairs and winning prizes and acting also as a judge at cattle shows. He was active in the affairs of the Glengarry Ayrshire Breeders’ Club, and was president of the Canadian Ayrshire Breeders Association. Member for one term of Charlottenburgh Township Council. Elder in St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, Lancaster. He was married to Martha McLennan. (six children) J. Carlyle Watt died in Cornwall General Hospital.
Glengarry News 5 Jan. 1984 * biog. profile on induction into Glengarry Agricultural Wall of Fame, GN 2 Sept. 1992 * MacGillivray & Ross 364-371 * Marin 159 * his advert. in Ayrshire supplement to Standard Freeholder 22 Sept. 1945 * recollected in Ian Cumming’s column, GN 19 Oct. 1994 * obituary of Dr Donald McGregor Watt of Visalia, Calif., veterinarian, the last of J. Carlyle Watt’s six siblings, GN 1 April 1998 * Fraser, Gravestones, II, 56, 58, 123 “Wayfarer” (fl. 1941-2), author. Between the spring of 1941 and early 1942 an unidentified author writing under the pen name of “Wayfarer” published about two dozen essay-type articles in the Cornwall Standard-Freeholder. They are written in the highly-polished, very self-consciously literary manner often labelled belletristic. The author seems to have been someone whose occupation caused him to travel a good deal in SDG at this time. He gives few hints about his background, but it may be guessed he was from England–possibly an Anglican clergyman. He discusses “The Spirit of Glengarry” in an article on the roll of honour displayed in an unnamed GC post office (3 May 1941), has two articles on St. Elmo (5 July & 13 Sept. 1941), and an article on St. Raphael’s (20 Sept. 1941), and he mentions his visit to an unidentified GC school, perhaps at Dunvegan (15 Nov. 1941). Highly concerned with analyzing and describing his own impressions, the author is not as good a historical source as could be wished. He is, however, highly interesting as an educated outsider recording his impressions on GC at a time when few outsiders did so. Moreover, he is praiseworthy for his perceptiveness and independence of mind in finding the customs and traditions of the place significant and deserving of intelligent observation and consideration, and that at a time when the interest of the outside world in GC was as near zero as it ever has been. The present author put a request in Gordon Winter’s Glengarry News column of 1 Oct. 1997 asking for information from anyone who knew the identity of “Wayfarer,” but no response was received. The articles contain other refs. to GC and to SDG, and cover a range of topics including the war, the weather, and the Queen’s University centennial.