(13 Sept. 1860-14 Nov. 1940), teacher. (Minnie Stuart) Born at Bainsville, GC. Parents: Peter Stuart and his wife Mary Morrison, of Bainsville. She was the 13th of fourteen children. She attended Williamstown High School and Ottawa Normal School, and taught in GC for 48 years, in a total of 13 schools, retiring finally in 1931 from teaching at Maxville Public School. “She was very human in her methods and kept an individual record of each and every one” of her schoolchildren. “She would refer with pride to those who had risen to prominence in church, state, social achievement or business, while about those whose lives were apparent failures she would throw the mantle of Christian charity.” Place of death: her home in Maxville. Presbyterian. She was active in the work of her church, the public library, the Glengarry Teachers’ Association, and the Women’s Institute. In 1935 she was one of the Glengarrians who received the jubilee medal issued to mark the 25th anniversary of King George V’s coronation. (Glengarry News 10 May 1935). She was not married. Her entry in the history of Maxville includes some interesting observations on the luckiness of the number 13 in her life.

Glengarry News 22 Nov. 1940 (likely by T. W. Munro) (QF) * Maxville (1991) 246, 305, 313