Abbey, Harold Kemball
(10 Nov. 1921-17 May 1989), veterinarian. (H. K. Abbey, Harry Abbey) Born in Kaslow, B.C., in Fraser Valley. Parents: Frank Abbey and his wife Myrtle Lingard. He attended public school and high school at Kaslo, B. C., the University of British Columbia, and the Ontario Veterinary College, Guelph, Ont., from which he graduated in 1947. He was married at Guelph on 17 May 1947 to Janette Fraser. (four children) For a year he practised as veterinarian in Kingston, but for the four decades from 1949 till his death he was a veterinarian at Lancaster, in GC. He served on Lancaster (village) council, and was reeve (1951, 1954) of Lancaster village. Roman Catholic. He died at Lancaster, and is buried at St. Joseph’s cemetery there. Dr Abbey was interested in and promoted sports, and took part in a wide range of community activities, including the establishment of a medical clinic at Lancaster.
Glengarry News 24 May & 14 June 1989 * private information * Ross, Lancaster, 355, 396 * Marin 514 (list of reeves) * C. Fairbanks MacDonell, Donald Fraser and Peter MacIntosh: Family Tree Charts (1993) 119-120 * becomes reeve second time, GN 27 May 1954
