====== Grant, Alexander Lewis ====== 
 (1873-27 Dec. 1916), contractor. (A. L. Grant, A. Lewis Grant) Parents: Mr and Mrs J. Alpin Grant, of the South Branch. He was killed in a train collision at St-Polycarpe, Que. He was described in his obituary as “a well known railroad contractor.” He was survived by his wife Janet H. Ross (1865-1947) and by one son, A. Dallas Grant (known as Dallas Grant). Dallas Grant (1900-1963) was a businessman well known in GC, at least in his later years. In 1936 it was reported that Dallas Grant, a native of Lancaster, GC, was “being prominently mentioned” as a possible candidate for the Quebec assembly. Dallas Grant, “a fluent bilingualist,” was at this time plant superintendent of the Canada Paper Co. Ltd., at Windsor Mills, Que. (//Standard Freeholder// 9 Dec. 1936 ) When his mother died in 1947 he was president of Sherbrooke Silk Hosiery Mills, of Sherbrooke, Que. (//SFH// 1947) Dallas Grant’s wife, Dorothy Stalker, who survived him, died in Cornwall General Hospital, 2 June 2002, in her 93rd year. (//Glengarry News// 5 June 2002)


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<fs small>//Glengarry News// 5 Jan. 1917 * Fraser, //Gravestones//, II, 79 (father and son)
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