| MacLEOD, James F. |
Col. James Farquharson Macleod was born in Scotland in 1836. In 1860 he
became a practicing lawyer in Ontario, then joined the military and served
during the Red River expedition. He joined the NWMP in 1873 and led his
troops to roust the whiskey traders and establish Fort MacLeod in what
is now southern Alberta. In 1875 MacLeod became a NWT magistrate, shortly
thereafter he was named a NWMP commissioner and held both posts until 1880.
Col. MacLeod continued his judicial work, his district was the area of
Fort Walsh, Fort Macleod, Fort Calgary and Edmonton with courts held in
other places along the way. In 1887 he was appointed to the supreme court
of the NWT and held this position until his death in 1894. He had the reputation,
to both white and Indian, of always keeping his word.
- Source - Heritage Hunter's Guide to Alberta Museums by Roberta Hursey
- Source - Alberta History Along the Highway by Ted Stone
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| McDOUGALL, George & John |
Rev. George McDougall, a Methodist minister, came to Edmonton from Ontario
with his sons in 1862. They built their first Methodist mission at Victoria
and worked there until 1871. By 1875 they had established the Morley Mission.
Unfortunately he was frozen to death in a blizzard near Calgary in the
1876. His son, Rev. John McDougall founded the first protestant church
in the Calgary district and imported the first breeding cattle to southern
Alberta to help finance his missionary work. John died at Calgary in 1916.
- Source - Heritage Hunter's Guide to Alberta Museums by Roberta Hursey
- Source - Alberta History Along the Highway by Ted Stone
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| McKINNEY, Louise Crummy |
Louise McKinney moved from Ontario, where she was born in 1868, to the
Claresholm area with her family in 1903. She was the founder and president
of the Women's Christian Temperance Movement and fought for prohibition,
social reform and women's suffrage. She is best remembered as one of the
'Famous Five' Alberta women who lobbied to get women declared as 'persons'
under the British North America Act in 1928.
- Source - Heritage Hunter's Guide to Alberta Museums by Roberta Hursey
- Source - Alberta History Along the Highway by Ted Stone
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| McNAUGHT, Mathew |
Mathew McNaught was one of the first white settlers in Southern Alberta,
building a homestead on land east of Willow Creek and south-west of The
Leavings, now Granum. He had previously been running bull trains
for I.G. Baker Freight, carrying supplies between Fort Benton, Montana
and Fort Macleod, Alberta until the arrival of the railway in Calgary in
1883. In 1885, Mathew was called into service with the Rocky Mountain
Rangers, This group, known as the "Cowboy Cavalry," was composed of cowboys,
ex-mounted policemen, ranchers, settlers and trappers who were banded together
to guard the ranch country and its inhabitants in the event that the Northwest
Rebellion should spread to involve the Blackfoot tribes or the American
Indian raiding parties. They contributed greatly to the maintenance
of peace and order in the vast ranch country. Mathew later acquired
more land in Porcupine Hills for livestock and farming. Born in Scotland
in 1849, Mathew was active in community
life and a member of the Masonic Order. He died in Granum in
1925.
- Source - The Rocky Mountain Rangers by Gordon E. Tolton
- Source - Lois McNaught (personal letters from Mathew McNaught)
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| MICHENER, Roland |
Michener was born in Lacombe and raised in Alberta. Graduating form the
U of A he received a scholarship to Oxford where he met and became friends
with Lester Pearson. Michener practiced law in Ontario and became a provincial
member of parliament in 1946 and a federal member of parliament in 1953.
He lost the election in 1962 and, after a few years as commissioner to
India, was appointed Governor General of Canada by Prime Minister Lester
Pearson.
- Source - Alberta History Along the Highway by Ted Stone
- Source - Heritage Hunter's Guide to Alberta Museums by Roberta Hursey
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