(9 Aug. 1909-4 Dec. 1984), electrician, piper, promoter of Highland games. Born on his parents’ farm, which was on Lots 24 and 25 of the 6th Concession of Kenyon Township, east of Maxville, GC. Parents: Donald MacInnes and his wife Anne Campbell. He attended primary school at Baltics Corners, farmed with his father and uncle, and then on his own. He learned to play the bagpipes, being impressed in early years by the example of Neil McVean, and taking lessons from McVean’s student, Angus D. Macdonald of Alexandria. Besides belonging to the SDG Highlanders regimental pipe band, MacInnes played bagpipes in a band known as the Greenfield Band at Glengarry-area social functions. He moved to Cornwall, and worked at the Howard Smith Paper Mill in Cornwall for two years from 1943, then operated an electrical contracting business, first in Cornwall and then afterwards in Maxville, moving his family back to Maxville in 1946. He was one of the principal founders of the highly-successful Glengarry Highland Games held at Maxville annually since 1948. While many people worked to make the games possible, he is particularly remembered as the man who formed the daring idea that the quiet village of Maxville might be made the site of notable Highland games. He was the first president of the games. From 1950, he was an inspector with Ontario Hydro. The family moved to Ottawa in 1951. Leitrim, Ont., was later home, and finally Maxville, where he died at Maxville Manor. Burial was at Dunvegan Cemetery. He was married in 1934 to Mary Margaret (Greta) Kippen (1908-1989) of Greenfield, GC. (three children) Peter MacInnes was a teacher of piping, and began a piping school in Maxville about 1945. His son, Donald Robert Gordon (Bud) MacInnes (1938-2001) became a polio victim at the age of eleven.

Biog. sketches by Angus H. McDonell, Glengarry News 24 June 1981 (on MacInnes’ induction into Glengarry Sports Hall of Fame) and GN 12 Dec. 1984 (on his death), both with same line drawing by Douglas A. Fales of MacInnes in kilts; there is also a separate obituary same issue GN * biog. sketch Maxville (1991) 679-681, 904-905 * MacPhee includes portraits, and a repr. of Angus H. McDonell’s hist. of the Glengarry Highland Games at Maxville called “Highland Games History Is Reviewed,” GN 13 July 1977 * biog. prepared for his induction into GC Celtic Music Hall of Fame, GN (portraittrait) 2 May 2007, VKHR 30 May 2007 * Laing 16 (portraittrait) * obituary of Bud MacInnes GN 3 Oct. 2001