(4 Dec. 1857-30 March 1943), farmer, poet. (William McIntosh, W. A. McIntosh, William A. McIntosh, called Willie Donald, used pen name “Lochinvar”) Born at Strathmore, Stormont County. Parents: Donald S. McIntosh and his wife Susannah Jane Montgomery. William Alfred was a farmer at Strathmore on East 1/2 lot 1, Concession 2, Roxborough Township, Stormont County. He wrote poems under the pen name “Lochinvar.” He died at Strathmore. Burial was in the North Branch Cemetery, GC. He was married (1) in 1884 to Jane McDermid (14 Nov. 1855-9 April 1923) (five children), and (2) to Mrs Nellie [Brownlee?]. Keith MacIntosh was his nephew.

     Many of William Alfred McIntosh’s poems seem to have been for merely private circulation. However, under the pen name “Lochinvar” he published obituary poems in the Cornwall Freeholder and Standard 1923-1930 in tribute to his wife, giving her name as Mrs W.A. McIntosh (Cornwall Freeholder 19 July 1923, Cornwall Standard 19 July 1923), and also to Archibald McIntosh (Cornwall Standard 25 Jan. 1923), Mrs William R. McIntosh (Cornwall Standard 13 March 1924), Mrs Lottie Truax (Cornwall Standard 1 March 1928), and members of the Cumming, Coleman and McGillis families (Cornwall Standard 10 July 1930). There was also a poem which is not an obituary tribute, in honour of roses, CF 22 June 1929. Also in verse, his sunny-natured sketch of his neighbours, “The Stories of 1923,” was published in the Apple Hill centennial history of 1982, and his rollicking, satirical “The Railroad to the Moon” was published in the Monkland centennial history of 1985. Some of his poems are dated at “Fairview.” The Lochinvar name comes from Sir Walter Scott.

Apple Hill (1982) 76 * Reflections on Monkland & District (1985) 209-210 (with portrait), 300-301 * Montgomery 33, 37 * private information * gravestone