Alexander Muir (5 April 1830 near Lanark - 26 June 1906) was a songwriter, poet and school headmaster. A childhood immigrant to Canada from his native Scotland, he grew up in the former township of Scarborough, Ontario, and studied at Queen's College, where he graduated in 1851. He taught in the Greater Toronto Area in such places as Scarborough, as well as in Newmarket, Beaverton, and in then suburban areas as Parkdale and Leslieville, where he lived on Laing Avenue. Wikipedia
Alexander Muir was brought to Canada in 1833 and received his early education from his father, who taught in a log-cabin school in Scarborough Township, just east of Toronto. www.biographi.ca/EN/ShowBio.asp?BioId=41068
Alexander Muir. Songwriter, school principal, poet, b Lesmahagow, near Lanark, Scotland, 5 Apr 1830, d Toronto 26 Jan 1906; BA (Queen's) 1851. His parents settled, when he was three, in Scarborough Township, east of Toronto, and www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params...
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