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Article: People behind the scenes.
- Article from:
- The Loyalist Gazette
- Article date:
- September 22, 2004
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Douglas Warner Grant UE UELAC President
June 2004--Born in Stratford, Ontario in 1947, Doug was raised in the nearby small community of Avonbank, on a farm purchased as virgin forest from The Canada Company in 1845 by William Taylor, Doug's third great grandfather, a weaver from Scotland. The Grants and Taylors married in the 1880s, when Alma Grant married Mary Taylor. Alma's grandfather, Alexander Grant, was born in Scotland in 1802. He immigrated to Glengarry County sometime before January 1824 when he married Mary Sutherland, the daughter of Loyalist George Sutherland.
Doug's mother is a Warner, a couple of generations removed from Osnabruk Township ...