Lynwood MacPherson

MACPHERSON, LYNWOOD, farmer and business person; b. 21 September 1947 in Charlottetown, son of Callum MacPherson of Head of Montague and Evelyn Martin of Flat River; m. 17 November 1973 Mary Patricia Evans, and they had four children, Bethany, Jennifer, Susan, and Jeffrey; Presbyterian. MacPherson, a Liberal, was first elected to the Legislative Assembly in the general election of 1986 for 4th Queens. He was re-elected in the general elections of 1989 and 1993. He was defeated in the general election of 1996 in the new electoral district of Belfast-Pownal Bay. On 21 May 1996, MacPherson was appointed Minister of Provincial Affairs and Attorney General. While a Member, MacPherson served as chair of the Intersessional Committee on Human Rights and served as vicechair of the House Public Accounts Committee. He also served as a member of Policy Board and was a member of various Legislative Committees dealing with agriculture, health and social services, fisheries, industry, tourism and labour, and energy and forestry. MacPherson chaired the Electoral Reform Committee in the early 1990s. MacPherson received his early education in the Flat River School, and later attended Montague Regional High School. He was a tobacco farmer, and a shareholder and plant manager for Belfast Tobacco Growers Limited. MacPherson later became one of the first Island farmers to grow ginseng, at the time a new crop to the province. He served as a director of the Federal Enterprise Development Board and was a member of the Commodity Marketing Board. MacPherson was a member of the board of the Southern Kings and Queens Regional Services Centre, and a director of Eastern Ventures. He was the director of the Belfast Recreation Centre and a member of the Belfast Consultative Committee. Lynwood MacPherson is also a member of the Belfast Fire Department and a charter member of the Belfast Lions Club. Mary MacPherson was born on 18 December 1947. She is the daughter of Joseph Evans and Rita MacQuillan of Tracadie Cross.