(1 Jan. 1889-1 Sept. 1956), plant manager. (Stanley Winter) Born at Ormstown, Que. Parents: Henry D. Winter (1854-1936) and his wife Jemima Anderson (c.1863-1893). Stanley Winter’s stepmother Anne Campbell (1866-1937) had Dunvegan (GC) connections, with a mother who lived as a widow in a small house south of Dunvegan. In his early years, Stanley Winter worked for the Bell Telephone Co. in the Ormstown-Huntingdon area of Quebec. He spent six months in Maxville in 1914 as the local superintendent of the milk operations the Borden Farm Products Co. Ltd. of Montreal was establishing there. It was in the following year, 1915, that the Borden Co. built a milk plant, known as the Borden Plant, in Maxville. For many years the Borden Plant, which bought milk from the local farmers, was one of the economic mainstays of the Maxville area. Stanley Winter, who meanwhile had been working at the main Borden plant in Montreal, returned to Maxville in 1917 as superintendent of the Maxville plant, and he remained superintendent till his retirement in 1954.

     During his many years in Maxville, Stanley Winter was active in the affairs of the village and area. He served as village councillor and reeve, was long-time secretary treasurer of the Kenyon Agricultural Society (and president three times), showed his harness horses at fairs, and was a curler and involved in the work of the Maxville Horticultural Society. He was married on 15 Nov. 1922 at Maxville to Helen Muriel McEwen (1 Oct. 1895-13 Sept. 1965). (two children) Stanley Winter died at the Royal Victoria Hospital, Montreal. He was a member of the United Church (earlier, a Methodist). Mason. Burial was in the Maxville Cemetery. His brother Warren Winter (1885-1954) lived in Maxville from 1915 to 1917 in charge of Borden operations there and after a long career in the service of the Borden Co. in Montreal retired to Maxville. Stanley Winter’s son Gordon Winter has been for many years the well-known Maxville columnist for the Glengarry News. One of the dedicated workers in the field of GC history, he was the principal compiler and editor of the large centennial history of Maxville published in 1991. For years he also has edited a unique and valuable monthly, the Manor Chatter of Maxville Manor.

Glengarry News 6 Sept. 1956 * Maxville (1991) 120-125, 297-298, 305, 312, 890-893 (with portraits) * private information * KAS: various