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The Macaulay family came to Kingston, Upper Canada from Ireland in the late eighteenth century, and were involved in the civil service and the Church. Robert Macaulay (1744-1800) came to America from Ireland and took part in the Revolutionary War before moving to Upper Canada to work as a trader. John Macaulay (1792-1857) was a civil servant in Kingston, Ontario during the early nineteenth century. The Rev. William Macaulay (1794-1874), was a minister in Cobourg and Picton, Ontario during the nineteenth century.

Thomas McCrea was a carriage maker in Kingston, Ontario.

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John Lorne McDougall was born in Tayside, Ontario in 1900 and educated at the University of Toronto where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1921 and a Master of Arts in 1923. He did further post-graduate work at Harvard University and the London School of Economics. He began his teaching career as an instructor in economics at the University of Texas during 1925-26 and at the University of Toronto during 1926-27. In 1927 he left teaching to become a statistician with Canadian General Securities where he remained until 1931 before returning to teaching. He joined Queen's University in 1933 and remained until his retirement in 1965. He died at Kingston in 1986.

The Rev. Robert McDowall (1768-1841) was the first Presbyterian Clergyman in the Kingston area, arriving in 1798. He was born at Balston Spa, New York in 1768 to Scottish parents and was educated at Williams College, Mass. In 1798, the Dutch Reformed classis of Albany, a branch of the Calvinist Church, sent missionaries to Canada. McDowall decided to stay to serve Upper Canada. He situated himself at Fredericksburgh and Adolphustown. He married Hannah Washburn, a daughter of Ebenezer Washburn. They had a large family.

Daniel McGuin (sometimes McGwin, McGuinn or McQuinn) had been a farmer, storekeeper, and potash manufacturer near Newboro, in Ulster County, New York. He was commissioned in Colonel Edmund Fanning's Associated Refugees or King's American Regiment. A man of this name was a captain in the King's Royal Regiment of New York. McGuin was afterwards appointed a captain of the Associated Loyalists. On November 3, 1783, he was at Sorel and petitioned fro relief or employment. McGuin was one of the first innkeepers in Kingston. He was also a land commissioner in 1788.

Frederick Donald MacKenzie was born in 1882 at Presque Ile, Ontario. He attended Queen's University to World War I and joined Queen's University Contingent, C.O.T.C. in 1914. He was posted to the Queen's Medical Unit, Number 5, Stationary Hospital and sent to Cairo, Egypt. After taking officer training he ended up an officer in the Canadian artillery. On demobilization he took up residence in Manitoba where he taught school and was a school principal for a short time. In 1935 he was elected Member of Parliament for Neepawa, Manitoba as a Liberal and he served in the House of Commons until 1945.

Alexander Grant MacLachlan (1897-1973) was born in Turkey and educated at Queen's University where he earned a B.Sc. in 1922. For many years Mr. MacLachlan operated a construction firm and later a lumber firm in Kingston. In 1936 he took a leave of absence to serve as private secretary to Kingston M.P. Norman Rogers, first in the Department of Labour and then of Defence. After Mr. Rogers died in a plane crash in 1940 Mr. MacLachlan remained with the Labour Department until 1941 when he returned to his Kingston lumber business. Mr. MacLachlan was a leader in many community activities and in 1956 was named Man of the Year by the Junior Chamber of Commerce.

Archibald McLean was a farmer in Yonge Township, Leeds County, Ontario.

The MacLennans represented in this fonds were lawyers based in Toronto and Lindsay, Ontario.