(1879-31 March 1940), clergyman. (Fr Corbet McRae) Born at Glen Roy, GC. Parents: Christopher J. McRae and his wife Margaret Corbet, who was the sister of Mgr George Corbet. He attended the local school and Loyola College in Montreal. On 19 Aug. 1906, at St. Raphael’s, he was ordained to the priesthood. (Glengarry News 24 Aug. 1906) He was, at the time of his father’s death in 1908, curate in St. Columban’s Parish, Cornwall. Afterwards, he was pastor at Dickinson’s Landing 1914-[1924?], and pastor of St. Joseph’s Parish, Lancaster, 1924-1932, and of St. Alexander’s Parish, Lochiel, 1932-1940. He died at Brockton, Mass., where he had been undergoing medical treatment. The Glengarry News obituary notes his “happy, jolly disposition,” and his ability to win the affection “of all classes and creeds,” and the diocesan history notes the contrast with the sternness of his uncle Mgr Corbet.

Standard Freeholder 1 April 1940, Glengarry News 5 April 1940 * Fraser, Gravestones, III, 48 * Villeneuve 61, 197-198, 235, 249 * J. J. McCormick’s hist. of St. Alexander’s Parish, GN 30 Nov. 1972 * sale of 61 young cattle, contributed by some 70 supporters, to raise funds for St. Alexander’s Parish, GN 7 Oct. 1938: this news story provides a shining vignette of rural parish life in the 30s