Glengarry and the wider world: six lives.(Dorothy Dumbrille, Dr. James Grant, Mrs. Mary Ishikawa, J.A. McDougald, Claude Nunney, Alexander Lillie Smith)

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Les six biographies que nous presentons aujourd'hui sont extraites du Dictionary of Glengarry Biography auquel nous travaillons depuis de nombreuses annees, et qui comportera pres de 1 200 entrees de longueurs variables. Elles ont ete choisies en fonction d'un critere: l'ouverture vers un monde plus large. On peut dire ainsi de Dorothy Dumbrille que, grace a la renommee de sa poesie pendant la Seconde Gussserre mondiale, elle a fait le lien entre le comte de Glengarry et le reste du monde, tout en rejoignant, toujours a travers son oeuvre litteraire, le Canada francais. En relation avec de nombreuses personnes importantes en Ontario et au Canada, le Dr Grant fut aussi un intermediaire, un lien cette fois avec le mouvement des Lumieres en Ecosse. A travers la vie peu ordinaire de Mme Ishikawa, dont le souvenir reste encore vivant a Glengarry, on retrouve plusieurs des experiences les plus dramatiques du XXe siecle. Quant a John Angus McDougald qui fut le fondateur d'une grande dynastie canadienne d'hommes d'affaires, il a aussi aide, avec l'aide de son gendre A. L. Smith, a associer le comte de Glengarry a Angus et Hollinger, des noms importants dans le domaine international des affaires. Finalement, recipiendaire de la Victoria Cross, Claude Nunney fait partie de l'histoire militaire du vingtieme siecle.

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The following six biographies are drawn from the approximately 1,200 biographies of varying length, which will appear in the Dictionary of Glengarry Biography on which the present author has been working for some years. The basis of selection of these six has been the theme of a wider world. Dorothy Dumbrille can be said to have connected Glengarry County and the wider world through the popularity of her poetry in World War II, and her reaching out in literature to French Canada. Dr Grant, well connected in terms of the leading people he knew in Ontario and Canada, was also a living link with the great world of the Scottish Enlightenment. Mrs Ishikawa, well remembered in Glengarry, represented in her own strange story several of the most tearing experiences of the twentieth century. John Angus McDougald was the founder of a great Canadian business family and, with his son-in-law A.L. Smith, forms part of the connection between Glengarry County and the Argus and Hollinger business names. Claude Nunney, as a Victoria Cross winner, was by definition a part of twentieth-century military history.

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DOROTHY DUMBRILLE

Dumbrille, Dorothy (25 Sept. 1897-11 Nov. 1981), author. (Mrs J.T. Smith, Dorothy Smith, but she wrote under the name of Dorothy Dumbrille) Born at Crysler, Ont. Parents: the Rev. Rupert John Dumbrille (Venerable Archdeacon Dumbrille), an Anglican clergyman, and his wife Minnie Fulton. Minnie Fulton was the daughter of Oscar Fulton, MP for Stormont, and was a cousin of the second Mrs John A. ("Cariboo") CAMERON.