(died 4 Sept. 1993, in his 98th year), soldier, counter-revolutionary, businessman. (Daniel Gnarowski) His father Thaddaeus Gnarowski was the mayor of a town in Russian Poland, and an uncle, Vincent Gnarowski, was a member of the Russian Imperial Duma. Daniel Gnarowski was educated at the military academy at Oranienbaum (now called Lomonosov) in Russia. He was commissioned in the 38th Siberian Rifles, as a subaltern. He fought in the First World War, in which he was twice wounded, and received the Order of Vladimir and the George Cross. By the end of the war he was a brevet major. An opponent of the Bolshevik Revolution, he assisted the allied forces sent to the Far East to assist Admiral Kolchak, the White Russian leader who was afterwards (1920) killed by the Bolsheviks. As a political exile, Gnarowski settled in Harbin, the Chinese city noted for its concentration of Russian refugees, and afterwards in Shanghai. He was a manufacturer in Shanghai and the founder there of the Kiangsu Glass Works “which became the cornerstone of a diversified enterprise involved in the manufacture of a variety of products from bottles for the local breweries to silicates for export to Japan to glassware and soaps for markets in Indochina, Malaysia, and Indonesia.” At the age of sixty he retired to Canada. He lived in Montreal, with a country home at Knowlton, Que., and for a few years about the early 1980s he lived in Maxville. He spent his last years at Kemptville. He died in Ottawa General Hospital.

Glengarry News 22 Sept. 1993 (QF)