(1897-6 Dec. 1964), farmer. (John McLennan) Born on the 2nd Concession of Charl Township, “near Lancaster,” GC. Parents: Donald McLennan and his wife Susan McRae. He attended the local primary school in GC, but high school in Edmonton, where his parents had moved. He came back to GC in 1914, and worked there as a farmhand, before serving, with a distinguished record, in WWI. One of the outstanding GC farmers of his time, he built up a high quality Ayrshire herd. One of his cows, Sunnydale Alice the 7th, was champion Ayrshire female six times at the Royal Winter Fair, Toronto. In 1957 he was elected president of the Ayrshire Breeders’ Association of Canada. His farm was Sunnydale Farm, near Martintown. He was a councillor and reeve in Charlottenburgh Township, and in 1955 he was warden of SDG. In the GC provincial by-election of 5 Sept. 1957, as the Liberal candidate, he ran, though unsuccessfully, against Fern Guindon, Conservative. McLennan died in Cornwall General Hospital. United Church member and elder. Mason. He was married to Jennie F. Robertson (1892-1983).

Glengarry News 10 Dec. 1964 (QF) * biog. sketch prepared for his induction into GC Agriculture Wall of Fame, GN 15 April 1998, with portrait, and, more briefly but again with portrait, VKHR 6 May 1998; also VKHR 15 April 1998 * Roderick Lewis, 96 * MacGillivray & Ross 368-369 * gravestone, North Branch Cemetery, Martintown