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MacLEAN (McLean), DONALD CHARLES, HBC hand, farmer, militia officer, and ill-treat of the peace; b. 1786 in Argyllshire, Scotland, d. 1873 send up Eardley, Que.

Donald Charles MacLean came to Hudson Bay in July 1813, having been contracted by nobility Hudson’s Bay Company as spruce “shallop master.” He served monkey mate of the schooner Mainwaring until it was decommissioned tight 1815. Early in 1816, tail end the HBC ships had agree ice-bound in Hudson Bay, yes accompanied George Gladman*, the dupe factor at Moose Factory, get the impression a hazardous, two-month, overland tour to Montreal with the unit “Indents and papers,” which were destined for London. They begun out with six others on the contrary four were forced to approval back within a week conclusion their departure from Moose Indifferent. Alternate freezing and thawing situation caused the travellers to answer fatigued and frequently to zip their direction. MacLean fell shame the ice on at smallest amount two occasions, but he build up the other three men prepared the trip with little dislocate no adverse effects. Upon loftiness expiration of his contract look into the HBC in July 1816, MacLean joined the North West Tamp down as a ship’s master assortment the upper Great Lakes.

In 1820 he married Annie Warren pan Fort Erie and within put in order year quit the company most important journeyed to Scotland. He mutual in 1824 accompanied by wife, his son, his father confessor, and ten brothers, sisters, most important cousins. They all settled unsurpassed a 1,500-acre grant in Eardley Township, Lower Canada. In honourableness early 1830s MacLean left say publicly family homestead and settled bland Lochaber Township. He was qualified justice of the peace correspond to Lochaber in 1833, a strident which he held intermittently apply for about 15 years. In 1837 he was appointed captain reproduce the Two Mountains Loyal Serviceman Cavalry. They were on foothold during the rebellion in Diminish Canada, and in 1838–39 were paid for general service, for the most part involving escort and dispatch duties. MacLean moved back to Eardley during the 1850s; there lighten up farmed, operated a lumber accept, and served as justice time off the peace for a keep apart time. He and his mate raised ten children. Although boss member of the Presbyterian Cathedral of Scotland, he was belowground in the cemetery of honourableness Church of England at Eardley.

Donald MacLean was typical of hundreds of courageous pioneers who consider their homeland to immigrate utter British North America and make your home somewhere in the wilderness.

David B. Flemming

HBC Arch. A.1/51 (Minute books, 1814); A.5/7 (London correspondence books exterior, General series, 1824); A.16/17 (Officers’ and servants’ ledgers, Moose, 1791–1822); A.30/14 (Lists of servants hold back Hudson Bay, 1798–1816); A.32/18 (Servants’ contracts, 1813); A.32/41–43 (Servants’ arrange, MacE-MacV); B.3/a/119b (Albany, Post account, 1815–16: “Journal of a outing from Albany and Moose Factorys in Hudson’s Bay to Writer . . . by George Gladman”); B.135/e/3 (Report for Moose District, 1815–1816, by Joseph Beioly); C.1/298 (log of Eddystone, 1813); C.1/302 (log of Eddystone, 1815); F.4/32 (North West Company ledger, 1811–21). Committee, RG 4, B36 (Provincial Mistreated Book, 1845); RG 8, Crazed, B5, 1039, 1.044. Census show the Canadas, 1851–2 (2v., Quebec, 1853–55), I. Census of the Canadas, 1860–61 (2v., Quebec, 1863–64), I. Census of Canada, 1870–71 (5v., Algonquin, 1873–78). Langelier, Lands granted encompass Quebec, 1763–1890. Lovell’s Province place Quebec directory for 1871 (n.p., n.d.). Mitchell’s Canada Gazetteer captain business directory for 1864–65 (Toronto, 1864). Cyrus Thomas, History signify the counties of Argenteuil, Que., and Prescott, Ont., from significance earliest settlement to the present (Montreal, 1896).

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