David George McQueen (1854–1930) was a Presbyterian minister who spent much of his career in the city of

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, Canada. The neighbourhood of McQueen is named in his honour. McQueen was born in Kirkwall, Ontario in 1854, and moved to Edmonton in 1887 upon graduation from

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. He served for 43 years as minister at First Presbyterian Church, and played a role in the founding of several other Edmonton area congregations. He was awarded an honorary degree by the

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. His son Alexander died during

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on June 4, 1916, from wounds sustained during the

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. His life is chronicled in the book McQueen of Edmonton by E.A. Corbett. Mount McQueen in the

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was named in his honour in

1953 Events January * January 6 – The Asian Socialist Conference opens in Rangoon, Burma. * January 12 – Estonian émigrés found a Estonian government-in-exile, government-in-exile in Oslo. * January 14 ** Marshal Josip Broz Tito i ...

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