(1885-13 April 1976), merchant, postmaster. (Clarence A. Cattanach, C. A. Cattanach, Clarence Cattanach) Born at Williamstown. GC. Parents: John Cattanach and his wife Margaret Jane Slack. He was educated at Williamstown, and served in France in World War I as a lieutenant in the Canadian Construction Corps. Afterwards he was a general merchant at Williamstown for 25 years and postmaster there from c. 1929 till his retirement in Dec. 1959. He served as chairman of the Char-Lan High School Board. He was an elder in St. Andrew’s United Church, Williamstown, and sang in the church choir for 70 years, and was a Mason and a Shriner. He died in Bestview Lodge, Cornwall. He was married to Margaret Donalda MacCrimmon. His brother John Arpad Cattanach, Q.C. (d. 14 May 1978), who served in France in the Black Watch Regiment in World War I, was a lawyer in Markham, Ont., for many years. Another brother, William (Bill) James Cattanach, was killed in action in April 1918 in France. Clarence Cattanach’s son William and granddaughter Mrs Donna Bougie followed him as postmasters at Williamstown.

Glengarry News 22 April 1976 *obituaries of his mother, Standard Freeholder 19 March 1937, his brother John Arpad Cattanach, GN 7 June 1978, and his sister Alice MacArthur Cattanach, GN 4 July 1990 * article by Angus H. McDonell in GC athletes series (portrait by Douglas A. Fales), & letter by J. Harold Lauber, GN 23 May & 20 June 1984 * Williamstown 200 63. 65, 68 * Fraser, Gravestones, I, 185 * William James Cattanach: Boss 61 but see also original (1952) edn. of Boss 115 * “Williamstown Postmaster Steps Down,” GN 6 June 1990 (family)