some pics from the Highland Games in USA NC July

[Jedburgh]

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A little background of municipal names in what is now North Glengarry Twp.

Prior to municipal government in what is now the province of Ontario, the 3 counties that became the United Counties of Stormont Dundas and Glengarry were electoral ridings. The "Counties" as a government was always "United".

The two northern townships in the Glengarry portion were Kenyon to the west and Lochiel to the east. At the time of the recent (about 25 years ago) reorganization there was one village (Maxville) located in Kenyon Twp and one Town (Alexandria) located in Lochiel. Maxville was a railway town incorporated about 40 years after the Kenyon Twp had local government. Any other named settlement would have been considered a hamlet (and usually had at least a post office and store).

The early settlement of this part of Ontario was heavily highland as can be seen from the posts and from the names scattered through the township. The last true Gaelic speaker in the Province (Alex McDonald - Dec. 9, 1904 to Nov. 7, 2001) was from Kenyon.

Now the entire north half of Glengarry County (former riding - east 1/3rd of SDG) is called North Glengarry and includes the townships (Kenyon and Lochiel), town and village (Alexandria & Maxville).

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Jed

[LoE]

Thank you so much for that post Jed. That information impacts me directly. In a personal way.

My thanks.