(25 Aug. 1919-1 Jan. 2000), farmer. (Keith MacIntosh) Parents: George R. MacIntosh and his wife Mary Ethel Christie. Born in the Strathmore area, Roxborough Township, Stormont County. He attended primary school in Roxborough Township, high school at Avonmore, and, in 1939-1940, Ottawa Normal School. During WWII, he was in active service overseas with the RCAF, holding the rank of flying officer. He was discharged 5 Nov. 1945. In 1949, he acquired a farm in the Strathmore area, S1/2, Lot 4, Ist Conc, Roxborough Township, about a half mile from his parents’ farm. At the United Church, Apple Hill, he was married 26 April 1953, but the marriage did not last. The wife was from Edinburgh, Scotland. There were no children. Keith MacIntosh was on the Roxborough Township council, 1957-1963. In 1964, he sold his cattle, and gave up farming, or at least full-time farming, and took employment with the Farm Credit Corporation. Thereafter, he worked for that organization in SDG till he retired 25 Aug. 1984. From Jan. 1996 he was a resident of the Maxville Manor, Maxville, and it was at the Manor that he died, after some years of increasingly disabling illness with Parkinson’s Disease. Burial was at the North Branch Cemetery.

     A serious, scholarly man, he was a great expert on the history of the NW quarter of Stormont County and the adjacent areas of GC, always ready to share his knowledge either in conversation or by letter. He was a major contributor of articles to the Monkland centennial book Reflections on Monkland & District (1985). Among these was a masterful and valuable study retracing one of the informal pioneer roads, “The Roxborough Trail,” which ran through the Monkland area with links, ultimately, to Ottawa, Lancaster and Montreal. One of his friends in the Glengarry Historical Society spoke admiringly of his bachelor house, full of well used books and manuscripts.

Private information, personal knowledge * portraits, and a little family information, and memoirs of a 1943 flying operation over Nazi-held Europe, Reflections on Monkland & District, 183-185, 209-211, 295-299, 309 * Bibliography of Glengarry: index * biog. outline on sheet prepared for funeral service, with fine portrait in air force uniform