(1870-3 March 1944), Red Cross worker. (Mrs Duncan McLennan, of Ridgewood) Her maiden name was Harriet Mair. Born at Galveston, Texas. She and her husband, Duncan McLennan, who was her first cousin, lived at the house well known in their time as Ridgewood, on the Front of Lancaster Township about a mile and a half east of South Lancaster. Across the road was another fine house, By the Lake, the home of John McLennan the MP, Duncan’s father. She is said to have “spent most of her married life in Lancaster,” i.e., at the Ridgewood property. The first Anglican church in GC, the Church of St. John the Evangelist, also known as the Church in the Wildwood, was built in the 1890s on the McLennan property at the Ridegway/By the Lake location by Mrs John McLennan (the same person, presumably, as the wife of the MP) and her daughter and by Duncan McLennan, the husband of the subject of the present biography. In 1929, the McLennan family sold the Ridgewood property, which became the location of Dr Morphy’s asylum. (Cornwall Freeholder 17 Aug. 1929, 7 Dec. 1929) Mrs Duncan McLennan was active in the work of the Red Cross in the GC area in the two world wars.

     When a GC branch of the Red Cross was formed in Sept. 1914, she was its secretary-treasurer, later becoming president. And when a meeting was held at Lancaster Village in 1939, attended by Bishop Couturier and others, to reorganize the area Red Cross, Mrs McLennan was the meeting chair. She was president of the GC Red Cross from 1939 to 1942, being forced to give up the position through ill health. She and her sister moved from Lancaster to Cornwall to spend the winter of 1944 there. She died at Hotel Dieu Hospital, Cornwall. Burial was at Mount Royal Cemetery, Montreal. (two children surviving him) A son, Major John L. McLennan, was killed during the Allied intervention in Russia just after WWI. The Ridgewood property was purchased in 1963 by the St. Lawrence Parks Commission to be added to the adjacent Glengarry Park. (Glengarry News 19 Sept. 1963)

Standard Freeholder 6 March 1944 (QF), Glengarry News 10 March 1944 * Glengarry Red Cross, 1914, 1939 organization: GN 18 Sept. 1914, 15 Nov. 1915, 15 Sept. 1939, SFH 20 Sept. 1939 * Canadian Red Cross, Quebec Division Annual Report, 1920 (includes GC) and Ontario Division Annual Report, 1939-1944 * Dumbrille, B, 34-36 * Fraser, Gravestones, II, 131 (infant son, d. 1910) * MacGillivray & Ross 222, 538 * Ross, Lancaster, 231-232, 237, 282, 338, 374 * son Lt Guy Stuart McLennan wounded in WWI, GN 9 March 1917