(1836-9 Dec. 1921), cheese factory proprietor. Born in the St. Elmo area, GC. Parents: Donald Munroe and his wife Margaret McIntyre. William Munroe lived east of St. Elmo, on Lot 6 in the 19th Concession of Indian Lands. He was married to Janet McEwen (1837-1926). On the marriage of his daughter Catherine Munroe in 1899, he was described as “Wm. Munro, St. Elmo, of the firm of Wm. Munro & Son proprietors of the Russell Combination of cheese factories.” (Glengarry News 6 Oct. 1899, repr. Fraser Obits. 282) “William Munro [sic], St. Elmo, Ontario,” is mentioned by J. A. Ruddick in The Diary Industry in Canada, ed. Harold Innis (1937), as one of the cheese factory proprietors who in the 1880s and 1890s operated “combinations of 10 to 30 factories.” (p. 54n.) (Also mentioned are D.G. McBean of Lancaster and W.D. McLeod of Kirk Hill) In 1911, when they were in their mid-70s, he and his wife moved to Alberta to be near their son William Angus Munroe. Place of death of both: Edmonton. Their children included also Dr Hugh Edwin Munroe the lieutenant-governor of Saskatchewan and Dr Margaret Ann Munroe, Catherine Munroe (Mrs Meadows) who was an optometrist in Edmonton, and George Albert Munroe who was a captain in the Canadian Army in the First World War and was afterwards a dentist in Saskatoon.

Glengarry News 23 Dec. 1921, 5 Nov. 1926 (obituary of his wife), repr. Fraser Obits. 287-288 * Campbell, Tannis and Stewart MacDougalls, 229-231