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John McLennan (disambiguation) The name John McLennan may refer to a number of people and similar spellings. People bearing the name- * John McLennan ( 1821 – 1893),businessman and politician, Ontario, Canada * John McLennan ''For other people with the same or similar nam ...

.'' John McLennan (February 26, 1821 – December 18, 1893) was an Ontario businessman and political figure. He represented

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as a Liberal-Conservative member of the

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from 1879 to 1882. He was born in Williamstown in Upper Canada in 1821, the son of a

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immigrant. He served as president of the Montreal Board of Trade and vice-president of the Merchants' Bank of Canada. With his brother

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, he established a firm involved in shipping and grain processing. McLennan lived at Lancaster. He died in Montreal in 1893, and is buried on Mont Royal. Five years after his death in 1898, his widow Charlotte Adelaide (Mair) McLennan established a church and parish hall in his memory. Located on part of McLennan's former Ridgewood estate, St. John the Evangelist Anglican Church remains open to this day, surrounded by the Glengarry Campground of the St. Lawrence Parks Commission in

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''The Canadian parliamentary companion and annual register, 1879''
CH Mackintosh
John McLennan fonds, Library and Archives Canada''www.glengarryparish.ca''
1821 births 1893 deaths Conservative Party of Canada (1867–1942) MPs Members of the House of Commons of Canada from Ontario {{HistoricalConservative-Ontario-MP-stub