The Kellock Memorials

Returning to "West Avenue" the marker on the eastern side reads simply "Kellock" Depending on the season and grass growth you can often see the ground name plaques of family members in addition to the other monuments for the family. 

Several well know buildings in downtown Perth are known as "The Kellock Block" identifying where the family's businesses were location. Many would recognize one of their buildings as the former location of the Perth Courier, now a retail space.

While this two-and-half-storey stone building was built in 1848 by John Ellis for Roderick Matheson, it is more closely identified with publishing and pharmacy. From 1858 to the late 1990s, a drug store occupied the end storefront. Dr. John D. Kellock and his brother James F. Kellock were the longest owners (1861–1901). James, a “wholesale and retail druggist,” was also an agent for the Hartford Insurance Company. In 1898, the Walker Brothers purchased the north half of the building for use by the Perth Courier, Canada’s second oldest newspaper (est. 1834 as the Bathurst Courier, and this has been its home until recently.

The Honourable Roy Lindsay Kellock was born in Perth, Ontario, on November 12, 1893. He was the son of James Francis Kellock and Annie McDonald. In 1942 he was appointed to the Ontario Court of Appeals and then in 1944 named a Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada where he served until retiring in 1958. From 1955 until 1960 he was Chancellor of McMaster University. In 1970 he was made a Companion of the Order of Canada. He died at Brantford in 1975.