(11 Feb. 1891-6 March 1986), lawyer. (Stanley McCuaig) Born at Bainsville, in GC. Parents: Duncan D. McCuaig and his wife Catherine McIntosh. He attended public school at Bainsville, high school at Williamstown and at Glencoe, Ont., and Queen’s University (B. A., 1913). As an undergraduate, he worked in the Canadian West for J. D. McArthur, the railway contractor, who was a first cousin of his father. Also he worked for McArthur on the Hudson Bay Railway for a year after graduation. He studied law in Edmonton, before serving overseas in WWI with the Canadian artillery. On 25 March 1919 he was called to the bar of Alberta. As a law student, he had been articled to Alexander Cameron Rutherford (1857-1941), who was premier of Alberta from 1905 to 1910, being the first premier after Alberta was established as a province. On 17 Sept. 1919, Stanley McCuaig married Rutherford’s daughter Hazel Elizabeth Rutherford (four children). McCuaig worked as a lawyer in Rutherford’s law firm, and was eventually senior partner in the law firm of McCuaig, Parsons, & McCuaig. He became a K.C. in 1935.

     His long and distinguished career was marked by many honours. He was president of the Canadian Bar Association 1948-1949, and of the Law Society of Alberta 1952-1953. An LLD from Queen’s University came in 1949. He was made an honorary member of the American Bar Association the same year; and became Edmonton’s Citizen of the Year, 1955, and a member of the Order of Canada, 1973. In 1973 he was honoured by Pope Paul VI with the Bene Merenti medal and scroll for his work for charities (Glengarry News 28 June 1973). He had a long record of work for charitable causes, including Roman Catholic charities. He died in Edmonton, aged 95. Presbyterian. He was a Presbyterian elder for over 50 years. His GC friends included Gertrude Wood.

     For other GC connections at this time with the politics of the prairie provinces, see note in life of Dr H. E. Munroe.

The Edmonton Journal 11 March 1986, Glengarry News 26 March 1986, QAR May/June 1986 * The McCuaigs of Bainsville (1984?) (includes portraits, autobiographical material) * Who’s Who in Canada 1964/65 p. 1258 (with portrait) * Wood * information from Canadian Bar Association * Patricia Roome, “Alexander C. Rutherford,” in Bradford J. Rennie, ed., Alberta Premiers of the Twentieth Century (2004)