John McMillan

MCMILLAN, JOHN, farmer, businessperson, and sailor; b. 14 May 1851 at Hazelwood in Fairview, son of Captain Ewan McMillan and Isabella Matheson; m. 5 October 1882 Margaret Hamilton Reid, and they had seven children, Gladys, Louise, St. Clair, J. Cecil, Muriel, Alison, and Aimee Marguerite; Presbyterian; d. 1927. McMillan, a Liberal, was first elected to the Legislative Assembly in the general election of 1904 for 2nd Queens. He was re-elected in the general elections of 1908 and 1915. He was defeated in the general election of 1912. He served on Executive Council from 1908 to 1911. McMillan was educated at the local school and subsequently at Prince of Wales College in Charlottetown. He worked in agriculture, and owned 120 acres of farmland in Lot 65, where he lived and worked. McMillan spent a short period of time at sea, voyaging to Europe and the West Indies. He served as the director of Afton Hall Company and of the New Dominion Cheese Company. John McMillan died in 1927. Margaret McMillan was the daughter of James A. Reid and Elizabeth Hamilton of Truro, Nova Scotia. She was born 10 November 1852 and died in 1941.