(23 Oct. 1872-1 Jan. 1944), farmer. (Jim Vallance) Born in Glasgow, Scotland. He came to Canada in 1879 at the age of six with his 4 year-old brother John; they had been in a Barnardo Home or similar children’s institution. James Vallance lived as a foster child with a Mrs and Mrs Finlay Campbell on their farm on Lot 36 in the 3rd Concession of Kenyon, GC, in the Domionville area. Later, James Vallance owned and operated the Campbell farm, and in the 1990s it had the third generation of Vallances living on it and farming it.
James Vallance’s brother John (1874-1950), born in Edinburgh, lived as a foster child with a Mr and Mrs John James Anderson, also in the Dominionville area, and took the surname Anderson, being known as John Campbell Vallance Anderson. He was in business in Ottawa, worked for Mackenzie and Mann in Northern Ont., and lived in Winnipeg and Vancouver.
On 14 June 1911 James Vallance married Jane (Janie) MacLean (1886-1969). (four children) James Vallance was active in many community associations. He was reeve of Kenyon Township and president of the Kenyon Agricultural Society. James Vallance died suddenly of heart attack while driving his truck on the Main Street of Maxville on the way to the Borden Plant. Presbyterian. He was the father of Allan Campbell Vallance. Another son, James Wilfrid Vallance (Wilfrid Vallance), was reeve of Kenyon like his father and brother, and was inducted into the Glengarry Agricultural Wall of Fame.
Standard Freeholder 3 & 6 Jan. 1944, Glengarry News 7 Jan. 1944 * Maxville (1991) 483, 906-908 * Campbell (1983), 275 * obituary of his brother John, GN 20 Jan. 1950 * Wilfred Vallance: interview as reeve, GN 4 Feb. 1987; Agricultural Wall of Fame induction, with biog. note, GN 29 April 1998, Vankleek Hill Review 15 April & 6 May 1998