Kate’s Notes: John Alexander Gulliland was the son of John Carss Gilliland and Mary Falconer Crevar, and a younger brother to Allan E. Gulliland, whose obituary appears in the Gilliland Trails library obituary collection for Scotland.

The Saskatoon Daily Phoenix
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
28 September, 1912

CITY BARRISTER
DIED YESTERDAY
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John Alexander Gulliland Succumbs
to Lingering Disease at Early 
Age.
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    The legal profession of the city and a large circle of friends and acquaintances were shocked yesterday by the death of John Alexander Gulliland, a well known Saskatoon barrister, at the City hospital, about 3 o’clock.
    Deceased had been ailing for some time from neuritis, and was taken to the City hospital two weeks ago, but the disease then had too great a start. He was 32 years of age and very popular in the city.
    Born in Glasgow, Scotland, he received his early education in that city, and attended the famous St. Andrew’s University.
    The late barrister was an accomplished linguist and had traveled extensively in Switzerland, France and Germany. He came to Saskatoon about eighteen months ago, and took over the law practice of the late Mr. Stratton.
    All deceased’s relatives are in the old country, and his death will come as a double shock to his parents, in view of the melancholy fact that a brother of the late lawyer died about a month ago in Glasgow.
    No funeral arrangements have as yet been made, but it is believed that interment will take place on Sunday under the direction of the Masonic order of this city and the local law society. The body lies at Young’s undertaking parlors.

-- transcription by Kate Maynard, 2011