Norman MacLeod

MACLEOD, NORMAN, farmer, fisherman, merchant; b. 16 April 1867 in High Bank, son of Donald MacLeod and Janet MacLean; m„ first, ca. 1898 Sarah Jane Bell, and there were two children, Alice and Hastings; secondly, Alexina "Lexie" MacSwain and there were no children; Church of Christ; d. 7 August 1964 in Montague. MacLeod, a Conservative, was elected to the Legislative Assembly in a by-election held 14 January 1926 for 4th Kings. The by-election was called due to the death of the sitting member, Albert P. Prowse*. MacLeod lived in High Bank at the end of MacLeod's Road or "Norman's Road," as it was known in the community. He also lived in Murray River. He was educated at the local school and for a short time attended Murray Harbour School. He farmed in High Bank and fished lobster with a sailboat near Pictou Island. He and his brother John Dan MacLeod established lobster canneries in Little Sands, Nova Scotia, and the Magdalen Islands. MacLeod operated a general merchandising business in Murray River. It was later operated by Charles Horton. MacLeod was a man of remarkable intellect. His granddaughter remembers him memorizing astronomy. He had a photographic memory and, according to Dr. Malcolm Beck, whom he mentored, Norman would look at a page of the Bible in the morning before he went fishing, and then, while he fished, recite it from memory. At 87 years of age, he participated in a debate on church issues at the Church of Christ in Montague. MacLeod served as an elder and teacher at the Murray River Church of Christ. Norman MacLeod died 7 August 1964 at the Kings County Memorial Hospital in Montague. Sarah Jane MacLeod, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James Bell of White Sands, was born in 1878. She died in 1904. Alexina "Lexie" MacSwain was born 10 August 1870 and died 9 June 1954.