Alice Munro - Writing Her Lives

S. McGill,
A Pioneer History of the County of Lanark
, 61–78, 238,
passim
.
    9. See Akenson,
passim
. Akenson notes that “a massive restudy” of the 1871 Census of Canada by A. Gordon Darroch and Michael D. Ornstein “revealed that in the province of Ontario 48.1 percent of Catholics of Irish descent and 59.4 percent of Protestants of Irish descent were farmers” (337–38).
    10. Thomas Dougherty, Registered Will Dated June 6, 1853. Registered County of Lanark, November 24, 1855: Private collection.
    11. 1871 Census of Canada, Ontario, District 82, Sub-District East Pembroke Village. John, twenty-eight, is listed as a “Wagon-Maker,” his origin is listed as “English” (he was born in Drummond Township, Lanark County, Ontario); Catherine, twenty-nine, is “Irish” and their daughters, Bertha Ann and Blanche M., are four and two, respectively. The family’s religion is Church of England.
    12. Pembroke
Observer and Upper Canada Advertiser
, March 12, 1875; there follow five more insertions of this ad. “Full Blast”: May 21, 1875, and almostweekly through November; “Removal J.M. Stanley & Co.” December 10, 17, 24, and 31, 1875. AM ’s comments, April 3, June 20, 2003.
    13. Catherine’s age was listed as forty-two in obituaries and on the death notice; the difference made her the same age as her husband. The funeral was on Sunday, October 14.
    14. John McLenaghan Stanley to Mary Stanley Legerwood, July 15, 1888; to Blanche Stanley, no date; to George Legerwood, May 26, 1891. T. O’Meara to Blanche Stanley, August 14, 1891. Charles H. Burggraf, Albany, Oregon, to Blanche Stanley, June 14, 1904. William R. Mealey, Albany, Oregon, to Blanche Stanley, February 5, 1906: Private collection.
    15. “Wedding Bells,” Carleton Place
Central Canadian
[n.d.], Perth
Courier
, January 9, 1891. Bertha Stanley’s attendance at the Renfrew Model School and her teaching at the Scotch Corners schools are specified in her obituary, Carleton Place
Canadian
and Perth
Courier
, March 15, 1935. AM mentioned Bertha’s teaching at Scotch Corners, June 20, 2003.
    16. The scrapbook is in the possession of Mrs. Eleanor Chamney Henderson, Carleton Place, Ontario. AM , June 20, 2003. McGill,
A Pioneer History of the County of Lanark
, 26.
    17. “The Ottawa Valley,”
Something:
246.
    18. Robert B. Laidlaw, “Diary of Robert B. Laidlaw,” in
Blyth: A Village Portrait:
17–20. Also James Scott,
The Settlement of Huron County: passim
.
    19. See
Illustrated Atlas of Huron County
, Morris Township.
    20. The
Illustrated Atlas of Huron County
(1879) shows William Black across the road from Thomas Laidlaw. After Black’s death, Munro’s grandfather inherited fifty acres of land from him; when he sold his farm and moved into Blyth they retained it, since they had no proper title to it. “Chaddeleys and Flemings: 2. The Stone in the Field,”
Moons:
30–31. “Changing Places”: 205–6.
    21. Transcript obituary. No reference given: Private collection.
    22. Transcript of interview with AM , Sheila Munro, March 1997. AM , June 20, 2003.
    23. “Working for a Living”: 14, 15. “The Peace of Utrecht,”
Dance:
208–9.
    24. “Working for a Living”: 17.
    25. Robert M. Stamp,
The Schools of Ontario
, 123. 1916 enrolment figure from Molly Jordan and Florence Theobald, “Our School Year,” in
Yearbook of the Ottawa Normal School, 1915–16:
4. Library and Archives Canada, Ottawa.
    26. Ottawa Normal School Register, 1898–1919; Provincial Normal Schools Training Register, 1915–16, 1916–17; Ottawa Normal School First-, Second-Class and Extra-Mural Final Examinations, 1910–11 to 1929–30. RG2-368, vols. 456, 484, 462. Archives of Ontario, Toronto. AM to Eleanor ChamneyHenderson, November 23, 1995: Private collection.
Public and Separate Schools and Teachers in the Province of Ontario, November 1917:
57.
Schools and Teachers, November 1918:
57.
    27. Daily Record, S.S. #12, Lanark Township (1921), Archive of Ontario. Alberta Teachers Indexes, Accession 75.602. Annie Chamney appears, along with teachers named Knight, Hines, and Matheson, in
The Pleasant Country: Killam and District, 1903–1993:
207. A 1909 photograph of the school appears on 201. AM , June 19, 2003.
    28. AM to Eleanor Chamney Henderson, November 23, 1995: Private collection. Interview W. Clyde Bell, March 4, 2003.
    29. AM , June 20, 2003.
    30. “Working for a Living”: 10. 396/87.3: 5.11: 3.
    31. “Working for a Living”: 13. 396/87.3: 3.4.
    32.