(1833-17 July 1906), farmer. Born at his parents’ farm at Stewarts Glen, GC. Parents: Alexander Stewart and his wife Mary Stewart. He was educated at home by his father, a schoolteacher, and farmed on what had been his father’s home farm, on Lot 36 of the 9th Conc.of Kenyon. Charles Stewart married Isabel MacCuaig (1844-1914). For about 50 years he was precentor at Kenyon Presbyterian Church, Dunvegan, leading the singing in both Gaelic and English. He was an elder also in the church from 1895, and was church treasurer 1866 -1899. He died at his home at Stewarts Glen. (five children) A solo at the funeral was sung by Charles R. Sinclair. Charles Stewart kept a diary (totalling some 370 pp.) from 1884 till the end of his life. Limited normally to a few entries a month, it lists farm and family activities and is of historical value as a record of the economic life and the values of the time and place. After his death, other members of the family made limited entries up into the 1940s. One of the sons of Charles Stewart and his wife, Donald (Dan) John Stewart (1876-13 Feb. 1956), was a schoolteacher in the area of Conquest, Sask., and probably attended the founding convention in 1932 of the CCF (Cooperative Commonwealth Federation); in his later years, Dan (who probably never married) returned to GC and lived in retirement at Dunvegan. See also Harriet I. MacKinnon.

Glengarry News 27 July 1906 * Campbell (1990), 22-26 (portrait) * date of his death: GN and written into his diary by a member of his family; the Kenyon Church Report 1906 says he died 10 July * information kindly supplied by his granddaughter Mrs Harriet MacKinnon * copy of his diary in present author’s files, from original owned by Harriet MacKinnon * MacMillan, Kirk, 385 * MacMillan, Kenyon Presbyterian Church, 45, 91