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Thursday, March 29, 2018

Leitch Receiving Vault

The Leitch receiving vault occupies a place east of the southeast end of Church Avenue and southeast of St. Andrew's Church, in Williamstown, Ontario.


DEDICATED IN LOVING MEMORY OF
THE HONOURABLE JAMES LEITCH
AND HIS WIFE
ELIZABETH STRICKLAND
BY THEIR DAUGHTERS
MARGUERITE C. FOWLER
TRESSA E. LEITCH
ERECTED 1964
AND THEIR SON JOHN S. LEITCH


James Leitch (June 2, 1850 — February 17, 1917) was born in Williamstown, Ontario. He received his early eduction at Williamstown and Cornwall Grammar Schools. He studied law in Cornwall and Toronto, was called to the bar of Ontario in 1876, and began practicing law in Cornwall. That same year he married Elizabeth Srickland. He was elected Reeve of Cornwall in 1884, and acclaimed Mayor of Cornwall in 1885 and 1886. He served as an Unattached Judge in the Superior Court of Ontario, in Toronto, from 1912 until his death in 1917. He is buried in the cemetery of St. Andrew's Church in Williamstown, Ontario.