(3 Sept. 1857-18 April 1951), businessman. (George L. Cains) Born at Breadalbane, GC. He was educated in Montreal, and at age 17 joined S. Greenshields, Sons and Company (later Greenshields, Limited), a Montreal wholesale dry goods firm. He represented the firm in the Maritimes, and rose to be a partner and director. President of the Dominion Commercial Travellers Association, 1893, Cains was a delegate to the 6th Congress of the Empire Chamber of Commerce, London, Eng., 1906, and was president of the Montreal Board of Trade, 1910, succeeding another Glengarrian, Farquhar Robertson, and was also a life governor of the Montreal General Hospital and the Montreal Maternity Hospital. Cains, whose Glengarry News obituary said he was “noted as the ‘grand old man’ of Montreal business and sports life,” retained a strong interest throughout life in a wide variety of sports, and in his youth had played for the Montreal Football Club. He was married in 1896 to Amy Cowans. At the time of his death, he had a granddaughter married to the Hon. John Fisher of Abbotsley, England. George L. Cains’s brother Fred L. Cains, who died at Breadalbane aged 71, was senior partner in the Montreal wholesale dry goods firm of Brophy Cains and Co. before returning, 15 years before his death in 1933, to farming on “the old homestead.” (obituary Standard Freeholder 14 June 1933)

Glengarry News 27 April 1951 (with reprint of the Montreal Gazette editorial tribute) * Morgan (1912) for him, also for E. B. Greenshields