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- The Sydney Post - Tuesday, April 9, 1929 Page 7 [an obituary also appeared in the "PRESBYTERIAN WITNESS"]
JAMES McINTYRE PASSES AT NO. 11
Well-known Caledonia Citizen Dies At Age of 74
Glace Bay, April 8 - General regret was to be heard on all sides today when it became known that James McIntyre had passed away at his home at No. 11. Born at French Road, 74 years ago, and a son of the first Scottish emigrants to settle in that part of Cape Breton, the late Mr. McIntyre came here when a mere youth and went to work in Caledonia Mine, where his strength and brawn soon made him noted as one of the best miners here then. As proof of his sturdiness, the late Mr. McIntyre, after every day as soon as he received his pay, walked to his home at French Road and would walk back Sunday afternoon to be on deck for his work on Monday morning, a distance of nearly 80 miles. He followed the mining industry here for many years and later was engaged in business at No. 11.
His wife was, before her marriage, Miss Sarah MORRISON, and she died in 1924. His oldest son, the famous boxer Mickey McIntyre, pass away about 8 years ago.
The late Mr. McIntyre donated the ground whereupon now stands St. Anthony's Church of No. 11, as well as the ground now known as the new St. Anthony's Cemetery, and a strange coincidence was that his wife was the first person to be buried in the new cemetery.
Surviving the late Mr. McIntyre, are three sons and six daughters. The latter are Mrs. J. A. McRae and Mrs. Thomas Casey, of Glace Bay; Mrs. Louis Boutilier and Mrs. Murdock McKinnon, of Sydney; Mrs. Harold Meitt, of Boston; and Miss Maize McIntyre, R.N., of New York, who nursed her father in his fatal illness. The sons are John Alex, Welterweight Champion Boxer of the Maritime Provinces, now making his home in Detroit; Rannie, well-known football player; and Jimmy, in Boston. Surviving also are two sisters, Mrs. Crane, Dominion No. 11; and Mrs. Joseph McLean, in Sydney. Two brothers, Michael and Allen, reside in the United States.
The funeral will take place on Wednesday morning, leaving his late residence at eight in the morning for St. Anthony's Church
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Abt 1855 - 1929 (~ 74 years)