(24 Oct. 1878-28 Sept. 1958), author. (Roy F. Fleming) Born in Derby Township, Grey County, Ont. Parents: Charles Fleming and his wife Eliza Warren. Roy F. Fleming attended primary school locally, Owen Sound Collegiate Institute, Toronto Normal School, the New York School of Art, and the College of Art, Toronto. In 1907 Fleming, who had taught in primary schools, was appointed art master at the Ottawa (Model) Normal School; he retired from this school in 1940. He died in Ottawa. He was married to Bertha Hawley. (two children) Beginning on 21 June 1947, and continuing into the 1950s, he published a valuable series of detailed, well-researched, well-thought-out historical articles in the Cornwall Standard-Freeholder. They take in a general way as their connecting theme the history of the Cornwall area of the St. Lawrence River. Among the many topics covered, they contain material on one that seems generally to have been neglected, namely the history of this area in the French regime, and a good deal of material relating to GC. Articles of especial GC interest are listed in Royce MacGillivray, Bibliography of Glengarry County (1996) p. 72. The article (23 July 1949) on early GC athletes is an important, pioneering attempt to bring substance, clarity and order into the poorly documented and often nebulous history of 19th-century GC sports and Caledonian games. Roy F. Fleming managed admirably as a historian to combine attention to local detail with a readiness to see the Cornwall area in broad North American contexts. He has been neglected unjustly because he published in a newspaper and not in a book.

Information kindly supplied by his granddaughter, Mrs Ruth H. Larmour, of Carleton Place, Ont. * Bishop, I, 289