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. Muir's claim to fame was the song
The Maple Leaf Forever, composed in 1867 to celebrate the
Confederation of Canada. He was later (1888-1901) principal of Toronto's Gladstone Avenue Public School (renamed after his death in his honour).
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