Editing John Grierson (section)

===Later life===
Grierson opened the new primary school at Cambusbarron on 10 October 1967; his sister Dorothy attended the day with him.<ref name=":0" /> The [[BBC]] expressed their wishes to make a programme about Grierson in the year of his seventieth birthday, which he turned down three times<ref name=":0" /> In the year of his seventieth birthday, Grierson received many tributes from across the globe. He was made an honorary member of the [[Association of Cinematograph, Television and Allied Technicians]]; he pressed for the ceremony to be held in Glasgow.<ref name=":0" /> He also received the Golden Thistle Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Art of Cinema at the Edinburgh Film Festival.<ref name=":0" />

In January 1969, Grierson left for Canada to lecture at [[McGill University]]; enrollment for his classes grew to around seven hundred students. He also lectured at [[Carleton University]] once a fortnight.<ref name=":0" /> At [[Heriot-Watt University]] in Edinburgh on 8 July 1969, Grierson received an [[Honorary degree|Honorary Doctorate]] of Literature.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www1.hw.ac.uk/graduation/honorary-graduates.htm|title=Heriot-Watt University Edinburgh: Honorary Graduates|last=|website=www1.hw.ac.uk|access-date=7 April 2016|archive-date=18 April 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160418163907/http://www1.hw.ac.uk/graduation/honorary-graduates.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref> A few days earlier on 4 July 1969, Grierson had opened the [[Scottish Fisheries Museum]] in [[Anstruther]].<ref name=":0" />

Grierson was a member of the jury for the Canadian Film Awards in 1970.<ref name=":0" /> He spent a few months in 1971, travelling around India instilling the importance of having small production units throughout the country.<ref name=":0" /> He returned to the UK in December 1971 and was meant to travel back to India; however, his trip was delayed by the [[Indo-Pakistani War of 1971|Indo-Pakistani War]].<ref name=":0" /> Grierson went into hospital for a health check-up in January 1972; he was diagnosed with lung and liver cancer and was given months to live.<ref name=":0" /> During his time in hospital he spent time dictating letters to his wife, Margaret, and received visitors; however, he fell unconscious on 18 February and died on the 19th.<ref name=":0" /> In his wishes for his funeral he had detailed his desire to be cremated. Also according to his wishes, his urn was placed in the sea off the Old Head in [[Kinsale]], and his brother Anthony, who had died in August 1971, had his ashes placed at the same time.<ref name=":0" /> A small flotilla followed the ''Able Seaman'', which carried the ashes, and when the urns were lowered into the water, the fishing boats sounded their sirens.<ref name=":0" />

The Grierson Archive at the [[University of Stirling]] Archives was opened by Angus Macdonald in October 1977.<ref name=":0" />