(1 Nov. 1824-late 1904; burial was on 2 Dec.), barge builder and wharf proprietor. (Capt. Alexander Stickler) Born at Kirkwall, Orkney Islands, Scotland. He came to Canada in 1839 or 1840. Working on the boats travelling between Cornwall and Montreal, he rose to the rank of captain. He built a house at South Lancaster in 1853. About that time he was married to Margaret McEdward (sp. McEdwards also found) of South Lancaster. (six children) Her father, William McEdward, may have been the man of that name at South Lancaster who in 1857 was a storekeeper and superintendent of common schools. Also at South Lancaster, Alexander Stickler operated a wharf and stockyards, and was a builder of barges. His barges were used on Lake St. Francis and more widely on the St. Lawrence between Kingston and Montreal. Their cargoes included building materials for the Grand Trunk Railway in the 1850s, grain, railway ties, and stone for the canals and dams at Valleyfield. In recollections which may refer to a state of affairs later than Alexander’s lifetime, they were said to be “towed by fussy little wood-burner tugs.” In Lovell’s directory of 1857 Alexander Stickler was described as a wharfinger. Since 1986, the Ontario Archives has held a large collection of Stickler’s personal and business papers. His daughter Margaret was married in 1893 to Donald G. McBean. George Stickler of South Lancaster, who died in Cornwall General Hospital on 29 Oct. 1948, aged 83, was the last to survive of Alexander’s children. In his later years George seems to have been an occupant in the same South Lancaster house as his cousin Louise Sandfield Macdonald, whose mother was a McEdward.

Glengarry News 2 & 9 Dec. 1904 * private information * Fraser, Gravestones, II, 87, 121-122 * Dumbrille, B, 12-13 * Fraser (1959) 26 (QF) * Ross, Lancaster, 78, 131, 151, 242, 345 * Lovell 1857 367 (father-in-law), 565 * unsigned article on new government wharf at South Lancaster, and its predecessors, with material on Alex. and George Stickler, Standard Freeholder 22 June 1948 * unsigned short article on George Stickler, SFH 26 Oct. 1946, and his obituary SFH 4 Nov. 1948 * Stickler barge, family involvement in grain trade, mentioned, Cornwall Freeholder 13 & 20 May 1881