(17 May 1927-28 March 1974), musician, vocalist, composer. (Johnny Mooring) Born at Springhill, N. S. Parents: Henry Mooring and his wife Caroline Jane Fisher. In 1964, 1965 and 1966 he won the Fiddle Championship contest which is staged annually at Shelburne, Ont. As a performer at the Atlantic Hotel, Alexandria, he became well known and well valued in the GC area. Despite sharing a Celtic heritage, Glengarry and the Maritimes seldom meet on the same pages of history; Johnny Mooring provides one of the exceptions. His death came at an Ottawa hospital as the result of injuries he received when assaulted outside a hotel at Rivière Beaudette, just east of GC. Howard Pattingale of Bainsville, wrote a forty- line tribute “In Memory of Johnny Mooring.”

Biography in Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia * Bill Guest, Canadian Fiddlers (1985) 224-225, 228-229 (prints Pattingale tribute) * Glengarry News 28 March-9 May1974