Charles St. Clair Trainor

TRAINOR, K.C., HONOURABLE CHARLES ST. CLAIR lawyer and judge; b. 8 December 1901 in Albany, son of Thomas Trainor and Annie Greenan; m. first 24 August 1938 Catherine Bernadette MacMillan, and they had three children, Elaine Bernadette, Dr. Charles St. Clair, and Father Joseph Leo; ni. secondly 10 June 1968 Annie Maud MacGuigan Noonan; Roman Catholic; d. 19 June 1978. Trainor, a Liberal, was first elected to the Legislative Assembly in the general election of 1935 for 5th Queens. He was defeated in the general elections of 1931 and 1939. Trainor received his early education in the Searletown School. He graduated from St. Dunstan's College with a Bachelor of Arts in 1923, and then studied law under Mark R. MacGuigan*. On 30 November 1927, he was called to the Bar. Trainor continued to work with MacGuigan and eventually the two formed a partnership, MacGuigan and Trainor. He was designated King's Counsel in 1938. Trainor served as the prosecutor for Queens County from 1939 to 1942. In 1942 he was appointed Judge of the Kings County Court, where he served until 1949. On 22 December 1949, he was appointed ludge of the Queens County Court where he served until 1967. On 7 November of that year, Trainor was elevated to the province's Supreme Court, and became its Chief Justice 9 July 1970. Aside from his active law career, Trainor was involved in numerous community initiatives. From 1965 to 1969, he served as chairperson of the Board of Governors of St. Dunstan's University. In 1969, when St. Dunstan's University and Prince of Wales College merged, through to 1978, he served as chairperson of the Board of Governors of the University of Prince Edward Island. Trainor served as chairperson of the Public Utilities Commission from October 1946 to January 1968, and also served as chairperson of the Veterans Land Act Advisory Board. From 1953 to 1956, Trainor was Deputy Commissioner of the War Claims Commission. He was a member of three different Commissions of Inquiry under the Public Inquires Act. Trainor was an executive member of the Federation of Prince Edward Island Home and School Association, as well as a member of its Examining Board. From1956 to 1968, he served on the Charlottetown School Board. Trainor was a member of the Prince Edward Island branch of the Canadian Red Cross Society and the Canadian Mental Health Association. He helped found the Prince Edward Island Polio Foundation and acted as chairman of the Canadian National Institute for the Blind. He also was a 4'" degree member of the Knights of Columbus. C. St. Clair Trainor died 19 June 1978. Catherine Bernadette Trainor was the daughter of W. J. P. MacMillan*, a premier, and his second wife, Letitia Macdonald. She died in 1965. Her sister, Mary Dorothea, married Alban Farmer*. Annie Maude Trainor Noonan died 10 March 1994.