(see following), journalist and printer. He came to Canada in 1870, and was probably born in Britain. At the end of 1887, he became editor of the Glengarrian newspaper, Alexandria, GC, on the downfall and flight of the previous editor, C.J. Stilwell. In his editorial of 30 Dec. 1887, Powter promised to avoid the personal abuse and intemperate language used in the Glengarrian in the past. No doubt at some stage, and in some sense, he became the owner of the newspaper, but real control must have remained in the hands of its financial and political master, R.R. (Big Rory) McLennan. In 1890, Powter asserted in the newspaper that he (Powter) was editor and proprietor of the Glengarrian (Glengarrian 1 Aug. 1890), and an 1891 letter from him, reproduced in the history of Williamstown Fair, shows that the newspaper’s letterhead also calls him editor and proprietor. When the lumberman Donald MacMaster died at the end of March 1893, Powter was one of his pallbearers. Clarence Ostrom records that Powter sold the paper on 27 May 1893 and that he and his family left Alexandria for Montreal in Sept. 1893. Afterwards, over many years, Powter operated a printing business in Montreal called Powter’s Prompt and Punctual Printery.

     Almost certainly, he was Arthur E. Powter (1857-1934), formerly of Cambridge, England, who with his wife Helen Seaton Cockburn (1859-1936) has a gravestone in Mount Royal Cemetery, Montreal. This couple had a son, Gunner Arthur Lawrence Powter, who was killed at Festubert on the Western Front, 29 April 1915, but whose name is not on the war memorial at Alexandria.

Ostrom 291 * Glengarrian 30 Dec. 1887 (the editorial survives in a clipping in papers of Mgr Ewan Macdonald in Archives of Ontario) * MacGillivray & Ross 189 * Mowat 37 * arrives in Alexandria to succeed Stilwell, Cornwall Freeholder 30 Dec. 1887, cited in DTL Standard Freeholder 29 Dec. 1945 * engagement of daughter, Glengarry News 17 Nov. 1916