Walter Grant MacKenzie

MACKENZIE, WALTER GRANT, farmer and business person; b. 1 July 1895 in Springfield, son of Robert MacKenzie and Margaret McLeod; m. First 21 December 1932 Eva Louise Simpson, and there were no children; m. secondly June 1955, Helen Johnstone, and there were no children; United; d. 21 October 1956 in Charlottetown. MacKenzie, a Conservative, was first elected to the Legislative Assembly in the general election of 1931 for 1st Queens. He was re-elected in the general election of 1943. He was defeated in the general election of 1939. He served as a Minister without Portfolio in the James D. Stewart'' Administration. MacKenzie spent most of his life on the family homestead in Springfield, as a successful farmer specializing in the raising of Holstein cattle and purebred sheep. Later in life he moved to Charlottetown, where he worked as a salesman for Vere Beck and Son. He was also vice-president of the Prince Edward Island Mutual Fire Insurance Company. MacKenzie was a member of the Masonic Order and was a Past Master of the Prince Edward Lodge Number 14. He was a member of the Caledonia Club. Walter MacKenzie died 21 October 1956, as the result of an automobile collision 10 days earlier. Eva MacKenzie, the daughter of J. Herbert Simpson of Bay View, was born in 1902 and died 6 October 1944.