Stormont
County is a historic county in the province of Ontario. The townships
within the county were: Cornwall, Finch, Osnabruck and Roxborough. In
1850, Stormont County merged with Dundas and Glengarry Counties to form
the United Counties of
Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry.
Cornwall Cheese and Butter Board
| HISTORY OF THE CORNWALL CHEESE AND BUTTER BOARD |
| PATRICK JOSEPH PURCELL |
Patrick
J. Purcell  ATRICK
J. PURCELL is forty-four years of age and owns and operates the
110-acre farm on the Montreal Road just West of Glen Walter. He
has 40 cattle, 5 horses and a number of swine and fowl. His splendid
farm annually yields 600 bushels of grain, 30 tons of hay and 3
acres of corn. He has been farming for fourteen years and for that
length of time has been a patron of the Glen Walter Cheese Factory
where he daily delivers, for the seven-month season, over 400 pounds
of milk. Mr. Purcell is a son of the late Michael Purcell and Isabella
McCaffrey. He married Catherine McGillis and has three sons and
two daughters. In religion he is a Roman Catholic, in politics a
Liberal and his nationality is Irish-Canadian. |
| ____________________________________ WALTER J. RAE |
Walter
J. Rae  ALTER
J. RAE is sixty-four years old and owns the 100-acre farm located
Lot 1, Front, Indian Lands, Charlottenburg Township, Glengarry.
He has 10 cattle, 3 horses, 4 swine and some 20 fowl. Mr. Rae's
farm produces annually 100 bushels of grain and 50 tons of hay besides
a quantity of potatoes, corn, cabbage and turnips. A fine orchard
of assorted apples is located on the farm. Mr. Rae, who has farmed
all his life, has been a member of the Cheese Board for twenty-one
years and daily takes 200 pounds of milk to the Glen Walter Factory.
Mr. Rae's father's name was James Rae and his mother was Catherine
Kinsella. He married Margaret Adams. He has one son living and four
deceased, and two daughters. He is a Roman Catholic, a Liberal in
politics and of Irish descent. |
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