(1858-25 Aug. 1917), contractor. (J. J. MacIntosh) Parents: John MacIntosh and his wife Margaret McKenzie, who were of Roxborough Township, Stormont County. About 20 years before his death, he came to Alexandria from Seattle. From 1897 to 1903, he was superintendent of the woodworking department of J. T. Schell’s enterprises in Alexandria. In 1901 he was working on the new Bank of Ottawa building in Bracebridge, Ontario (Glengarry News 11 Oct. 1901) MacIntosh, who in 1903 went into business on his own as a building contractor, built the new Boys’ Separate School (the Alexander Separate School) in Alexandria, for which he got the contract in 1905. He was employed, also in 1905, to draw up plans for a new Presbyterian church at Dalhousie Mills (the intended new church was not built, the existing church being renovated instead). In 1907-1908, he built the new Presbyterian church at Finch, Stormont County. He built, In 1911-1912, the Protestant church in Alexandria (the building which still stands, is known now as the Church on the Hill). His other buildings included the Bank of Ottawa building in Alexandria, and various private residences, including his own house in Alexandria (which was later the home of Mayor George Simon). He appears to have been the contractor for the Kirk Hill West Church manse, built 1906.

     He was superintendent of the work of building the new Knox Presbyterian Church at Vankleek Hill, to replace the former Knox church which had been destroyed by a fire in Jan. 1917, but he was fatally injured in an accident while supervising the demolition of the old fire-damaged walls, and died at Vankleek Hill a few hours later, in the private hospital operated by Dr Alexander Macdonald. (four children) In 1900, when the church destroyed in the fire of Jan. 1917 had been under construction, the minister and two workmen had been killed when part of the structure collapsed. The site chosen for the church in 1900 was a former burial ground, and “there were superstitious folk who blamed the devastating misfortune of 1900 on the alleged desecration of the early place of interment. It is said that a few persons felt so keenly that they vowed never to enter the rebuilt church. If they lived to view the 1917 ruins and to hear of the fatality that befell the overseer of the restoration, we may well believe that they felt confirmed in their irrational forebodings.” (MacMillan) MacIntosh was an elder in the Presbyterian church in Alexandria. He was married in 1890 to Annie S. Stackhouse (1863-1943), of a Peveril, Quebec, family. He and his wife are buried in the Protestant Cemetery, Alexandria, with their gravestone next to that of his near namesake, John D. McIntosh of Munro and McIntosh.

Glengarry News 31 Aug. 1917 (portrait) * MacMillan, Kirk, 243-246, 262, 342 *A Goodly Heritage: a History of Knox Presbyterian Church, Vankleek Hill 1825-2000 (2001) 48 * MacKinnon 69-71 * MacGillivray & Ross 491, 492 * gravestone * Dumbrille, U 58 * private information * separate school: GN 7 April 1905; his obituary * building of Presbyterian Church, Alexandria: GN 2 & 9 June, 20 Oct. & 1 Dec. 1911, 12 April & 9 Aug. 1912 * A History of St. Andrews United Church, Dalhousie Mills, Glengarry County, Ontario: “The Round Church” (1991?) 10 * his work on building or remodelling private houses, including his own, GN 11 July 1902, 14 April 1905, 9 Feb. 1906, 6 May 1910, and obituary * manse, Kirk Hill: GN 2 March 1906; MacMillan, Kirk, 142; McCrimmon [West Church] 13, 88 * acts as architect of new Presbyterian church at Moose Creek, GN 22 June 1900 * obituary GN (ND) of his son, J. F. A. MacIntosh (d. 26 Jan. 1967), of Sun Life Co., and of strong continuing Alexandria connections