(19 March 1913-8 July 1974), airman, farmer. (Eddie Hunter, Ted Hunter) Born at Hornsea, Yorkshire, England, and later moved with his family to nearby Hull. Parents: Travis Hunter and his wife Mildred Langston. Edward Hunter came to Canada in 1929. Thereafter, as a farm worker, he lived for 8 years with the family of A.D. MacDougall and for four years with the family of Roderick McLennan, on farms in eastern Stormont County, near Maxville. He enlisted in the RCAF, 1941, and was commissioned Feb. 1943. (Glengarry News 12 Feb. 1943) Sent overseas in 1943, he served with the RAF in a squadron flying Lancaster bombers. He was awarded, by the French government, the Croix de Guerre. (GN 28 Sept. 1945, 24 Feb. 1955) After the war he farmed west of Maxville, on Lot B, 7th Concession of Roxborough Township, on the Kenyon-Roxborough boundary road. He joined the Corps of Commissionaires in 1966, and worked with them in the Nestle plant at Chesterville till ill health forced his retirement. Died, aged 61, in Cornwall General Hospital. He was married on 1 July 1943 to Helen J. MacLean, of Maxville. (three children) She was a daughter of Mrs Edith MacLean and was a music teacher in the schools of Glengarry and Stormont counties during the 1960s and 1970s. Helen and Edward Hunter sang duets at weddings and other public functions.

Glengarry News 1 Aug. 1974 * private information * Maxville (1991) 245-246, 401, 770-774 (portraits) * A.D. MacDougall: Maxville (1991) 625-627 and Campbell (1990), 264-268 (portrait), 613 * promoted to flying officer, GN 17 Dec. 1943, and to flight lieut., GN 30 March 1945 * meets his brother for first time in 19 years, Standard Freeholder 15 Aug. 1947