(1829-9 Feb. 1908), workman or manufacturer. Born probably at Brodie, GC. Parents: William Jamieson, an emigrant from Scotland, and his wife Jane Brodie. William Jamieson, the subject of the present article, lived at Brodie throughout his life on his parents’ farm, which was on the south 1/2 of Lot 8 in the 5th Concession of Lochiel. He had a small manufacturing plant at Brodie, where he made wagons, wheels and stoning machines. The stoning machines were used to lift out large stones– very common in GC fields–and stumps. In 1866, he took out a patent for “A Machine for Lifting and Removing Stone.” One of his stoning machines is in the Glengarry Pioneer Museum at Dunvegan, GC. The manufacturing plant had a few employees. The buildings of the plant, manufacturing operations having ceased, were torn down about the beginning of the 20th century. William Jamieson had a private place in the form of a circle of trees on his farm which he used as an outdoor chapel for praying. He was unmarried. He and his married or widower brother John, who had also worked in the manufacturing plant, died on the same day, about six hours apart. They shared the same funeral service, held nearby at the Covenanter Church. The Glengarry News obituary stated, “The Messrs. Jamieson were well and favorably known, having for several years carried on a thriving business manufacturing wagons, sleighs and stone machines, their workmanship being of the best, they consequently received a large patronage.” It may be noted that “several,” as used in this quotation, was long used by GC-area journalists to designate an undefined as well as merely a short period of years. William was inducted, in 1992, into the Glengarry Agricultural Wall of Fame as one of the first 15 inductees. Another brother, Robert Carlyle Jamieson, is said–though sources differ–to have been the co-founder, with a Mr Higginson, of the Jamieson Paint Company of Montreal.

Glengarry News 14 Feb. 1908 * Butternuts and Maple Sugar 68-77 (portrait), 285 * biog. sketch of inductees into Agricultural Wall of Fame, GN 2 Sept. 1992 * copy of his patent obtained from Canadian Intellectual Property Office; includes sketches of the machine (patent No. 2174, issued 11 Dec. 1866) * enquiry about the family, Bridging the Gap [Glengarry Genealogical Society], June 1993