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 <tab>Charles W. Gordon revisited GC in 1924 and in 1936. (//Cornwall Freeholder// and //Cornwall Standard //11 Dec. 1924, //Standard Freeholder// 13 Nov. 1936) In connection with the 1924 visit he is quoted as saying, “I visited the County of Glengarry the other day, after 54 years’ absence.” (//Cornwall Freeholder// 25 Dec. 1924) The story that he stayed at the Moose Head Inn, South Lancaster, when he was writing or researching the GC novels, must be dismissed as just one more of the GC myths. His vivid, detailed, and essentially accurate descriptions of GC life were based primarily on his recollections of childhood experiences. However, during his many years in Winnipeg he was in contact with numerous Glengarrians who were Winnipeg residents or visitors to the city. If he did not revisit GC, then GC came to visit him.
-<tab>For Connor’s place in a succession of GC-area authors beginning with James Drummond see Pierre Cholet.
+<tab>For Connor’s place in a succession of GC-area authors beginning with James Drummond see [[cholet_pierre|Pierre Cholet.]]
-<tab>Charles W. Gordon died in Winnipeg. For more than a third of a century he had been the most famous of all living Glengarrians. The London //Times// obituary, which was a fine tribute to him, says he “was known wherever the English language is read.” The obituary mentions both //Glengarry School Days// and //The Man from Glengarry//, and says of GC that “Gaelic is still spoken there and it is declared to have a firmer hold in those parts than in its original home in Scotland.” He was married in 1899 to Helen Skinner King. (seven children, including J. King Gordon) Charles W. Gordon received the C.M.G. in 1935. His friends included British Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald, who spent a holiday with him at Gordon’s Lake of the Woods summer home. For MacDonald, see also E. R. Peacock in this dictionary. The Lake of the Woods home was later owned by the historian A.R.M. Lower.
+<tab>Charles W. Gordon died in Winnipeg. For more than a third of a century he had been the most famous of all living Glengarrians. The London //Times// obituary, which was a fine tribute to him, says he “was known wherever the English language is read.” The obituary mentions both //Glengarry School Days// and //The Man from Glengarry//, and says of GC that “Gaelic is still spoken there and it is declared to have a firmer hold in those parts than in its original home in Scotland.” He was married in 1899 to Helen Skinner King. (seven children, including J. King Gordon) Charles W. Gordon received the C.M.G. in 1935. His friends included British Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald, who spent a holiday with him at Gordon’s Lake of the Woods summer home. For MacDonald, see also [[peacock_sir_edward_robert|E. R. Peacock]] in this dictionary. The Lake of the Woods home was later owned by the historian A.R.M. Lower.
 <tab>The name “Man from Glengarry,” from Connor’s novel, has been applied as a term of praise to various Glengarrians including Fr C.H. Gauthier. Also, Valentine Chisholm was thought to resemble the hero of the novel. (Villeneuve, 62; //Butternuts and Maple Sugar// 230) An //Ottawa Journal// article (repr. //Standard Freeholder// 29 Sept.1949) on W. J. Major, MP, termed him the “New Man from Glengarry.”