(1827- 23 April 1915), lumberman. (Uncle Jim) Born Strathglass, Scotland. He came to Canada in early 1840s with his parents and his older brother Alexander. James and his brother Alexander (d. 12 Aug. 1901) acquired 300 acres 1 1/2 miles west of the St. Raphael’s church. James made money (“a considerable competency,” in the language of his time) as a successful lumberman in Ohio, and afterwards was involved in CPR construction in the West, “principally in bridge and trestle building. His last employment in operations of this kind was on the CPR east of Winnipeg.” He was unmarried. He was described in his obituaries as “one of the last of the stalwart Glengarrians, who lived in the pioneer days of Eastern Ontario,” and as being “In physique,… a type of Glengarrians of a former day.”

Cornwall Freeholder & Cornwall Standard both 29 April 1915, Glengarry News 7 May 1915 (QF) * Fraser, Gravestones, III, 47 * obituary of Alexander, GN 16 Aug. 1901, repr. Fraser Obits. 30 * obituary of nephew Frank Bain, Standard Freeholder 10 Jan. 1945