(1917-24 June 1980), teacher, farmer. Born in Martintown, GC, area. Parents: John McMartin and his wife Edna McDermid. High school education in Cornwall; attended Normal school, and taught primary school before WWII. He served overseas in the RCAF in WWII as an air observer. After the war, he attended the Ontario Agricultural College (OAC), graduating in 1950, then taught high school, first in Cornwall and Avonmore and then, for more than 25 years, at Char-Lan High School, Williamstown, where he was a science teacher, retiring in 1979. While teaching and in retirement, he operated a farm west of Martintown. Interested in heritage activities, he was a promoter of the Glengarry Historical Society and served as its president, and he was one of the principal founders of the Nor’Westers and Loyalist Museum at Williamstown, and was one of the organizers also of the museum at Dunvegan. He was the principal author of the uncompromising brief presented to the “B & B” (Bilingualism and Biculturalism) Commission on behalf of the Glengarry Historical Society in 1965. He was a promoter of old-time fiddling. He was killed in a tractor accident on his farm. (Another president of the society, John D. MacLeod, was killed in a tractor accident at Dunvegan in 1968.) Ian McMartin was an elder in St. Andrew’s United Church, Martintown. Burial was at the North Branch Cemetery. Ian McMartin was unmarried. His Glengarry News obituary noted that with his death his sister, Miss Marjorie McMartin, who resided with him, was “the last surviving member of one of Martintown’s oldest families.”

Glengarry News 2 July 1980 (with portrait) * Campbell (1986), 373-374, 406 * B & B submission: CP report, Kitchener-Waterloo Record 3 March 1965; Lisa Schrenk as per Bibliography of Glengarry 184 * article by, GHS, 11th Annual Vol., 1971-1972 * memorial tribute to, Glengarry Life, 1981 * to teach agricultural science at Williamstown High School, Glengarry News 11 April 1952 * president, Glengarry Historical Society, GN 7 Feb. 1963