Margaret Stirling

Other Events and Attributes:

• FindaGrave Memorial ID: 46839729
• Name: Sterling
• _UID: 8F51C081E6EE4F0FBFDEF62FCB1B7678E9F5
• Immigration-Witness: 1821, Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; from Scotland, Paisley Townhead Emigration, Greenock 2 May 1821, Earl of Buckinghamshire to Upper Canada.
• Census-Wife of Head: 1851, Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Canada

Notes:

Margaret Stirling was born circa 1780 in Scotland, where she married John McLaren on August 13, 1799. In 1821 she emigrated with her husband and five children from Scotland to Lanark Village, Ontario, Canada. The story of their family can be found here: http://david.mclaren.name/

FindaGrave Memorial ID:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/46839729

Immigration-Witness:
Role: Witness
Woman age 43, male children 23, 22; female 6, 2.

Transcribed from (film of) original documents held in the collection of the National Archives of Canada [Ottawa]: MG 11, Colonial Office 42, vol. 159, part 3, page 508, list 23/24.

Census-Wife of Head:
Role: Wife of Head


Died:
Margaret Stirling was born circa 1780 in Scotland, where she married John McLaren on August 13, 1799. In 1821 she emigrated with her husband and five children from Scotland to Lanark Village, Ontario, Canada. The story of their family can be found here: ?i?http://david.mclaren.name/?/i?

Margaret married John McLaren on 13 Aug 1799 in Dumbarton Parish, Dunbartonshire, Scotland. John (son of Daniel McLaren and Jannet Carmichael) was born on 12 Dec 1776 in Balquhidder, Lochearnhead, Perthshire, Scotland; was christened on 15 Dec 1776 in Comrie Parish, Perthshire, Scotland; died on 1 Jan 1859 in Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; was buried in Lanark Village Cemetery, Lanark, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• _UID: D26B45684C084B0987319315E85F64DE7B67
• Immigration-Witness: 1821, Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; from Scotland, Paisley Townhead Emigration, Greenock 2 May 1821, Earl of Buckinghamshire to Upper Canada.
• Immigration: 1821, Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Earl of Buckinghamshire
• Census: 1851, Perth, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Canada
• Occupation: May 1879, Perth, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Tailor

Notes:

Birth:
Name:?tab?Finlay Mclaren
Gender:?tab?Male
Baptism Date:?tab?19 Jan 1800
Baptism Place:?tab?New Kilpatrick,Dunbarton,Scotland
Father:?tab?John Mclaren
Mother:?tab?Margaret Stirling
FHL Film Number:?tab?1042000

Ancestry.com. Scotland, Select Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014.
Original data: Scotland, Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950. Salt Lake City, Utah: FamilySearch, 2013.

Immigration-Witness:
Role: Witness
Woman age 43, male children 23, 22; female 6, 2.

Transcribed from (film of) original documents held in the collection of the National Archives of Canada [Ottawa]: MG 11, Colonial Office 42, vol. 159, part 3, page 508, list 23/24.

Immigration:
To Canada from Scotland on ship Earl of Buckinghamshire in 1821 and located on West Lot 1, Con 4, Lanark Township, Village of Lanark (Paisley Townhead Emigration Society) ( Ref: The Lanark Society settlers by Carol Bennet and The Lanark Society settlers Ships' Lists of the Glasgow Emigration Society 1821, by Gerald J. Neville)
Earl of Buckinghamshire left Greenock, Scotland 29 Apr 1821 with 607 passengers, arrived Quebec 15 Jun 1821, aboard: MCLAREN, John; age 45, female 43, sons 23, 22, dau 6, 2.

Died:
Perth Courier, May 23, 1879, obituary: "Died, on Friday evening, 15th May, Mr. Finlay McLaren, Perth, aged 79."

Finlay married Isabella McLaren on 16 Aug 1827 in Perth, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada. Isabella (daughter of Peter McLaren and Janet Headrick) was born on 16 Nov 1804 in Scotland; died on 14 Apr 1842 in Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• FindaGrave Memorial ID: 46840805
• _UID: 73C636CA722C45F1AD963AF1514F36E7387E
• Immigration-Witness: 1821, Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; from Scotland, Paisley Townhead Emigration, Greenock 2 May 1821, Earl of Buckinghamshire to Upper Canada.
• Immigration: 1821, Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; on Earl of Buckinghamshire

Notes:

Findagrave
James McLaren, son of John McLaren and Margaret Stirling, was born August 15, 1801 in Perthshire, Scotland. In 1821 he emigrated with his parents to Lanark, Ontario, Canada and in 1828 he married his cousin Margaret McLaren. They had eight children, six boys and two girls. One boy and one girl died as infants. Their second son was the well known lumberman Senator Peter McLaren. James was a merchant in Lanark Village and his store was eventually converted to Buffam's Tavern.

Birth:
Name:?tab?James Mclaren
Gender:?tab?Male
Birth Date:?tab?15 Aug 1801
Birth Place:?tab?New Kilpatrick,Dunbarton,Scotland
Father:?tab?John Mclaren
Mother:?tab?Margaret Stirling
FHL Film Number:?tab?1042000

Source Information
Ancestry.com. Scotland, Select Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014.
Original data: Scotland, Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950. Salt Lake City, Utah: FamilySearch, 2013.

FindaGrave Memorial ID:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/46840805

Immigration-Witness:
Role: Witness
Woman age 43, male children 23, 22; female 6, 2.

Transcribed from (film of) original documents held in the collection of the National Archives of Canada [Ottawa]: MG 11, Colonial Office 42, vol. 159, part 3, page 508, list 23/24.

Immigration:
To Canada from Scotland on ship Earl of Buckinghamshire in 1821 and located on West Lot 1, Con 4, Lanark Township, Village of Lanark (Paisley Townhead Emigration Society) ( Ref: The Lanark Society settlers by Carol Bennet and The Lanark Society settlers Ships' Lists of the Glasgow Emigration Society 1821, by Gerald J. Neville)
Earl of Buckinghamshire left Greenock, Scotland 29 Apr 1821 with 607 passengers, arrived Quebec 15 Jun 1821, aboard: MCLAREN, John; age 45, female 43, sons 23, 22, dau 6, 2.

Died:
James McLaren, son of John McLaren and Margaret Stirling, was born August 15, 1801 in Perthshire, Scotland. In 1821 he emigrated with his parents to Lanark, Ontario, Canada and in 1828 he married his cousin Margaret McLaren. They had eight children, six boys and two girls. One boy and one girl died as infants. Their second son was the well known lumberman Senator Peter McLaren. James was a merchant in Lanark Village and his store was eventually converted to Buffam's Tavern.

Buried:
Inscription:
JAMES McLAREN DIED
MAR. 7, 1846 AGED 45 YRS.
ALSO HIS WIFE MARGARET DIED
DEC. 31, 1885 AGED 80 YRS.
NATIVES OF SCOTLAND

Family/Spouse: Margaret McLaren. Margaret (daughter of Peter McLaren and Janet Headrick) was born on 20 Oct 1806 in Breadalbane, Perthshire, Scotland; died on 31 Dec 1885 in Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; was buried in Lanark Village Cemetery, Lanark, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• FindaGrave Memorial ID: 58592760
• _UID: 2732D0B3F0894AB380E4F4CF19848F42E776
• Immigration-Witness: 1821, Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; from Scotland, Paisley Townhead Emigration, Greenock 2 May 1821, Earl of Buckinghamshire to Upper Canada.
• Census: 1850, Junius, Seneca County, New York, United States; USA
• Census: 1860, Galesburg, Knox County, Illinois, United States; USA
• Occupation: 1860, Galesburg, Knox County, Illinois, United States; Day labour
• Census: 1870, Wakenda, Carroll County, Missouri, United States; USA
• Census: 1880, Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, United States; USA

Notes:

Birth:
Name:?tab?John Mclaren
Gender:?tab?Male
Birth Date:?tab?28 May 1803
Birth Place:?tab?New Kilpatrick,Dunbarton,Scotland
Father:?tab?John Mclaren
Mother:?tab?Margaret Stirling
FHL Film Number:?tab?1042000

Source Information
Ancestry.com. Scotland, Select Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014.
Original data: Scotland, Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950. Salt Lake City, Utah: FamilySearch, 2013.

FindaGrave Memorial ID:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/58592760

Immigration-Witness:
Role: Witness
Woman age 43, male children 23, 22; female 6, 2.

Transcribed from (film of) original documents held in the collection of the National Archives of Canada [Ottawa]: MG 11, Colonial Office 42, vol. 159, part 3, page 508, list 23/24.

Census:
123 Robey Street

John married Mary Ann Peake on 4 Feb 1832 in Middlefield, Otsego County, New York, United States. Mary (daughter of Ephraim Peake and Elizabeth "Betsy" Morris) was born on 11 Dec 1807 in New York, United States; died on 8 Aug 1885; was buried in Mount Hope Cemetery, Sargent, Custer County, Nebraska, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• FindaGrave Memorial ID: 188170028
• _UID: 33F9837DC8CB4D61B3039C7E4B09560BF297
• Immigration-Witness: 1821, Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; from Scotland, Paisley Townhead Emigration, Greenock 2 May 1821, Earl of Buckinghamshire to Upper Canada.
• Census-Wife of Head: 1851, Beckwith Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Canada
• Census-Household Member: 1861, Beckwith Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Canada
• Census-Household Member: 1871, Carleton Place, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Canada
• Census-Household Member: 1881, Carleton Place, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Canada
• Census: 1891, Carleton Place, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Canda

Notes:

FindaGrave Memorial ID:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/188170028

Immigration-Witness:
Role: Witness
Woman age 43, male children 23, 22; female 6, 2.

Transcribed from (film of) original documents held in the collection of the National Archives of Canada [Ottawa]: MG 11, Colonial Office 42, vol. 159, part 3, page 508, list 23/24.

Census-Wife of Head:
Role: Wife of Head


Census-Household Member:
Role: Household Member


Census-Household Member:
Role: Household Member


Census-Household Member:
Role: Household Member


Died:
From FAG Contributor # 49329383
1892, Friday January 15
The Almonte Gazette, Friday, 15 January 1892, Front Page
The Late Mrs Dr Wilson
On Friday last Mrs Wilson, relict of Dr Wilson, passed away at the residence of her daughter, Mrs F. Sinclair, on Lake Avenue, aged 78 years. Mrs Wilson, whose maiden name was Janet McLaren, was an old resident, having lived for 50 years or more in Carleton Place, and was well known both far and near. Two of her sons, William and Alexander Wilson, reside in town. The funeral took place on Saturday afternoon to the 8th line Ramsay cemetery, and was a very large one. The services were conducted by Rev Robt McNair, of St Andrew's of which church deceased was a member. The pall bearers were Messrs, J.F. Cram, Jas
Gilles, Alex Sibbit, Wm Pattie, Wm McDiarmid and L. McCallum. ? C.P. Herald

Inscription
Side 1: Charles Patterson died April 22, 1894 Aged 80 years. His wife Jane Lochead Feb. 15, 1903 Aged 88 years.
Side 2: Joseph Wilson died Oct. 22, 1887 Aged 44 years. His wife Martha M. Patterson 1849-1922.
Side 3: Robert Cavanagh 1835-1921 his wife Martha M. Patterson Wilson 1849-1922.
Side 4: William Wilson M.D. died July 4, 1887 Aged 82 years. His wife Janet McLaren Jan. 8, 1892 Aged 79 years.

Janet married William Wilson, MD on 25 Jan 1832 in Perth, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada. William was born about 1807 in Rutherglen Parish, Lanarkshire, Scotland; died on 4 Jul 1887 in Carleton Place, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; was buried in Auld Kirk Cemetery, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• FindaGrave Memorial ID: 46939575
• _UID: 20B3EBCED4C149279DE56382AA6DD313F5F0
• Immigration-Witness: 1821, Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; from Scotland, Paisley Townhead Emigration, Greenock 2 May 1821, Earl of Buckinghamshire to Upper Canada.
• Census: 1851, Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Canada
• Census: 1861, Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Canda
• Census: 1871, Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Canada
• Census: 1881, Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Canada
• Census: 1891, Lanark Village, Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Canada
• Residence: 1897, Lanark Village, Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Con 4 Lot 3W

Notes:

Scottish naming protocols (details here: http://david.mclaren.name/naming_protocols.htm) produced lots of McLarens with the same given name and no middle names. Any possible confusion was countered with "bynames." They might reflect occupation (e.g. Blacksmith Peter), or location (Lanark Peter), or physical character (Big and Little Peter). In this case we have ?i?Little Peter (born 1818)?/i?, the son of John (born 1776), distinguished from his first cousin Big Peter (born 1813), the son of his father's brother Peter (born 1779).
?i?
Emigration?/i?
Posted 18 Oct 2013 by david_j_mclaren
To Canada from Scotland on ship Earl of Buckinghamshire in 1821 and located on West Lot 1, Con 4, Lanark Township, Village of Lanark (Paisley Townhead Emigration Society) ( Ref: The Lanark Society settlers by Carol Bennet and The Lanark Society settlers Ships' Lists of the Glasgow Emigration Society 1821, by Gerald J. Neville)
Earl of Buckinghamshire left Greenock, Scotland 29 Apr 1821 with 607 passengers, arrived Quebec 15 Jun 1821, aboard: MCLAREN, John; age 45, female 43, sons 23, 22, dau 6, 2.

McLaren Peter 1818 grave script
Inscription at base of headstone: A loving friend a husband dear. A tender parent lieth here. Great is the loss we here sustain. But hope in heaven to meet again.

From Findagrave
Peter McLaren, son of John McLaren and Margaret Stirling, was born in 1818 in Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland. In 1821 he emigrated with his parents to Lanark, Ontario, Canada. He was known as "Little Peter," to distinguish him from his first cousin "Big Peter" McLaren, who was born in 1813, lived on the farm next door, and is also buried in Lanark Village Cemetery. On March 24, 1842 he married Mary MacDonald and they started their family while living and working on his parents' farm. Mary MacDonald died in 1856, shortly after the birth of their fifth child, and Little Peter raised his children with the help of his parents until they both died in 1859. With the help of his children, Peter maintained the family farm until his death in 1898.

?i?Tweedsmuir Histories of McLaren Farms?/i?

Women's Institutes across the provinces, encouraged by Lord and Lady Tweedsmuir (Governor-General of Canada), collect historical information about the area and communities in their district. The Women's Institute of Ontario created a Tweedsmuir Village History for Lanark which includes farm histories.
The following farm history is from a Tweedsmure book in the museum at Middleville, Lanark, Ontario. Transcribed by John Roberts, copied by Barbara I. Purdy, it is re-re-transcribed here with McLaren given names highlighted and my comments in brackets. An explanation of the land survey method for Lots/Concessions can be found here: http://david.mclaren.name/family_farms.htm

W ? of Lot 1, Concession 4
Township of Lanark
West half of Lot 1 in 4th Concession '96 100 acres
East part of Lot 1 in 3rd Concession '96 50 acres
Sometime during the year 1820 [my records indicate July of 1821] there arrived among a group of pioneers from Scotland, John McLaren, who with his family had come to Canada to find a home in the New land. After arriving in Perth he pushed onward to Lanark Village, then only a cluster of huts on the banks of the Clyde. John McLaren took up location about one mile east of Lanark Village and built himself a log shanty where the present barn now stands. Later as he carved out his farm from the forest and grew more prosperous, he built a more substantial log house which still withstands wind and weather one hundred and twenty years later.
Upon the death of John McLaren the farm passed to his son, known as "Little" Peter, who married Mary McDonald from a neighboring township bringing her to her new home on horseback. The farm now consisted of 100 acres in Lot one '96 Concession four '96 and "Little" Peter later acquired fifty acres adjoining in Concession three from one Doctor Wilson who was married to his sister.
Peter McLaren had two sons and two daughters [There was a fifth child, daughter Mary, who died in 1871 at age 17.] and upon his death the farm passed to his son Duncan who married Margaret Bowes. [This is not possible, as both Duncan and his wife Margaret predeceased "Little" Peter '96 though Duncan lived and farmed this land with his widowed father for more than three decades prior to Duncan's death.] Their children were Mary, John Peter and Mervin. Of these Mervin and John Peter are now living '96 Mervin in Ottawa, John Peter in British Columbia.
In 1903 the farm was purchased by John Roberts. Four years later he erected a new barn to replace the old cluster of log barns and in 1926 built the present home where the family now reside. He married Jenny Dunlop and to them were born eight children, Wm, Elsie, Isobel, Boyd, Mervin, Jennie,
Agnes and George now deceased. Mervin now resides at home with his wife and two children, Douglas and Barbara.

[Added note, hand written on side of page: Douglas Roberts and his wife Ruby McOwatt and ten children now reside here. In 1991 Douglas and Ruby own the house and Robert Graham part of the farm.]

(Research):Tweedsmuir Histories of McLaren Farms

Women's Institutes across the provinces, encouraged by Lord and Lady Tweedsmuir (Governor-General of Canada), collect historical information about the area and communities in their district. The Women's Institute of Ontario created a Tweedsmuir Village History for Lanark which includes farm histories.
The following farm history is from a Tweedsmure book in the museum at Middleville, Lanark, Ontario. Transcribed by John Roberts, copied by Barbara I. Purdy, it is re-re-transcribed here with McLaren given names highlighted and my comments in brackets. An explanation of the land survey method for Lots/Concessions can be found here: http://david.mclaren.name/family_farms.htm

W ? of Lot 1, Concession 4
Township of Lanark
West half of Lot 1 in 4th Concession '96 100 acres
East part of Lot 1 in 3rd Concession '96 50 acres
Family farm
Posted 28 Mar 2014 by david_j_mclaren

Sometime during the year 1820 [my records indicate July of 1821] there arrived among a group of pioneers from Scotland, John McLaren, who with his family had come to Canada to find a home in the New land. After arriving in Perth he pushed onward to Lanark Village, then only a cluster of huts on the banks of the Clyde. John McLaren took up location about one mile east of Lanark Village and built himself a log shanty where the present barn now stands. Later as he carved out his farm from the forest and grew more prosperous, he built a more substantial log house which still withstands wind and weather one hundred and twenty years later.
Upon the death of John McLaren the farm passed to his son, known as "Little" Peter, who married Mary McDonald from a neighboring township bringing her to her new home on horseback. The farm now consisted of 100 acres in Lot one '96 Concession four '96 and "Little" Peter later acquired fifty acres adjoining in Concession three from one Doctor Wilson who was married to his sister.
Peter McLaren had two sons and two daughters [There was a fifth child, daughter Mary, who died in 1871 at age 17.] and upon his death the farm passed to his son Duncan who married Margaret Bowes. [This is not possible, as both Duncan and his wife Margaret predeceased "Little" Peter '96 though Duncan lived and farmed this land with his widowed father for more than three decades prior to Duncan's death.] Their children were Mary, John Peter and Mervin. Of these Mervin and John Peter are now living '96 Mervin in Ottawa, John Peter in British Columbia.
In 1903 the farm was purchased by John Roberts. Four years later he erected a new barn to replace the old cluster of log barns and in 1926 built the present home where the family now reside. He married Jenny Dunlop and to them were born eight children, Wm, Elsie, Isobel, Boyd, Mervin, Jennie,
Agnes and George now deceased. Mervin now resides at home with his wife and two children, Douglas and Barbara.

[Added note, hand written on side of page: Douglas Roberts and his wife Ruby McOwatt and ten children now reside here. In 1991 Douglas and Ruby own the house and Robert Graham part of the farm.]

FindaGrave Memorial ID:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/46939575

Immigration-Witness:
Role: Witness
Woman age 43, male children 23, 22; female 6, 2.

Transcribed from (film of) original documents held in the collection of the National Archives of Canada [Ottawa]: MG 11, Colonial Office 42, vol. 159, part 3, page 508, list 23/24.

Died:
Peter McLaren, son of John McLaren and Margaret Stirling, was born in 1818 in Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland. In 1821 he emigrated with his parents to Lanark, Ontario, Canada. He was known as "Little Peter," to distinguish him from his first cousin "Big Peter" McLaren, who was born in 1813, lived on the farm next door, and is also buried in Lanark Village Cemetery. On March 24, 1842 he married Mary MacDonald and they started their family while living and working on his parents' farm. Mary MacDonald died in 1856, shortly after the birth of their fifth child, and Little Peter raised his children with the help of his parents until they both died in 1859. With the help of his children, Peter maintained the family farm until his death in 1898.

THE LANARK ERA
Wed. May 11th, 1898 - death
This morning at 7 O'clock, Mr. Peter McLaren, breathed his last. He was eighty years old, having been born in Glasgow, Scotland in the year 1818 and came to this country in 1822 with his parents, Mr. & Mrs. John McLaren, who settled on Lot #1 in the 4th concession of Lanark Twp. (within the Corporation of the village). When young he married Miss Mary MacDonald, a native of Scotland, who died about forty-two years ago. They had a family of five, of whom two are dead, Mary and Duncan. The surviving members of the family are: Mrs. R. Wallace, of Chicago, Mrs. David McLaren and Mr. John McLaren of Drummond. Funeral will be on Friday afternoon to the Lanark Cemetery.

PERTH COURIER
May 13, 1898
The Era chronicled the death of Peter McLaren of Lanark on Wednesday morning of heart trouble and appendicitis. Deceased was born in Glasgow, Scotland in 1818 and came with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. John McLaren, to Canada in 1822. The family settled on Lot 1, 4th Concession Lanark. His wife was Mary McDonald, also a native of Scotland who died 42 years ago. Two of their five children are dead, the survivors being Mrs. H. Wallace of Chicago; Mrs. David McLaren and Mrs. John McLaren of Drummond. He was a member of St. Andrews Presbyterian Church and in politics was a Liberal. (Transcriber's note, checked this twice it was "Mrs" David McLaren and "Mrs." John McLaren)

PERTH COURIER - Hope Book 1890-1899 pg. 336
At Lanark, Ontario May 11, 1898 Peter McLaren age 80 years - born in Glasgow, Scotland, in 1818 and came to Canada with his parents Mr. & Mrs. John McLaren in 1822, settling at Lot 1, Con. 4, Lanark Twp. His wife was Mary MacDonald, a native of Scotland who died 42 years ago. They have 2 children deceased. The survivors are Mar. R. Wallace, Chicago, Mrs. David McLaren and Mr. John Mclaren of Drummond Twp. He attended the Presbyterian Church.

Peter married Mary McDonald on 24 Mar 1842 in First Presbyterian Church, Perth, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada. Mary (daughter of Duncan McDonald and Catherine Stuart) was born about 1819 in Lochearnhead, Perthshire, Scotland; died about 1856 in Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• FindaGrave Memorial ID: 24042822
• _UID: 74DF5F591F22405BBBF6916F686FA63E533F
• Census-Household Member: 1851, Perth, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Canada

Notes:

FindaGrave Memorial ID:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/24042822

Census-Household Member:
Role: Household Member

Jessie married William McLaren on 25 Jan 1850 in Bathurst Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada. William was born on 13 Jun 1819; died on 29 Nov 1895; was buried in Bellevue Cemetery, Larimore, Grand Forks County, North Dakota, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• _UID: 9EECFAD7AA8E4ED3A8DCC79403F7648071DF
• Census-Household Member: 1851, Perth, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Canada
• Occupation: 1851, Perth, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Tailor
• Census-Household Member: 1861, Perth, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Canada
• Census-Household Member: 1871, Perth, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Canada
• Census: 1881, Perth, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Canada

Notes:

Census-Household Member:
Role: Household Member


Census-Household Member:
Role: Household Member


Census-Household Member:
Role: Household Member

Margaret married James Heffron on 16 Nov 1855 in Perth, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada. James was born about 1831; died on 9 Jul 1874 in Perth, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• _UID: 4362956C85CA463A94777FB08118D9698AF2
• Census-Household Member: 1851, Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Canada
• Census: 1861, Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Canada
• Occupation: 1861, Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Farmer with Thomas Simpson
• Census: 1881, Lanark Village, Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Canada
• Census: 1891, Lanark Village, Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Canada
• Occupation: Abt 1860 1900, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Lumbering along the Mississippi River
• Census: 1901, Lanark Village, Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Canada
• Residence: 1908, Lanark Village, Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; "The Hill" Farm

Notes:

Census-Household Member:
Role: Household Member


Census:
Living in innn of John Bowes with others including siblings of John

Died:
Death of Mr. John McLaren.
Mr. John McLaren of 'The Hill' farm passed peacefully away this morning at one o'clock. He had been ill since New Years, and confinement in the house during the long winter months quickened the breaking up of a constitution that had always been accustomed to plenty of exercise in the open air. It was thought, however, that when spring returned and venture could be made outdoors that vitality and strength would return. But the fondest hopes proved illusive, and the end came, to the deep regret of all Lanark, where Mr. McLaren enjoyed the highest respect and esteem. Senator Peter and Mrs. McLaren, James L.P. and Mrs. McLaren, drove out Monday and visited the sick bed. The funeral will take place from his late residence on Thursday, July 2nd, at 1:30 o'clock p.m., to Lanark Village Cemetery. John McLaren was born in 1828 and at his death was in his 81st year. He first saw the light of day on the farm where he drew his latest breath. This homestead is known as "The Hill," and has a commanding view of Lanark Village and the surrounding country. It was there his parents settled after the memorable emigration in 1820. The boys grew into manhood and Peter became the lumber king of the Mississippi. The calling of the woods also attracted John, and with his brother he lumbered on the Mississippi River for about forty years. He became well known in the district through which the Snow Road extends, and at McLaren's Depot, which was the distributing point of shanty supplies for years. In the old days it was timber, then followed the sawlog era, through both of which Mr. McLaren labored with the same geniality that characterized all his life. The decline of lumbering also marked the twilight of John's career. He returned to the old homestead on The Hill, where he lived and enjoyed his remaining years with his wife and family. Forty eight years ago Agnes May became his wife. Eight boys were born to them, seven of whom are still living, one boy (John) died some years ago. Two of the boys, Peter and Allan, are at home; Daniel is in Spokane, Wash.; James in Wardner, B.C.; Fred and Findlay at Blairmore, Alta.; William at Marcellus, N.Y. Besides the Senator a brother, William lives at Lewiston, Idaho. Mr. McLaren loved his home and the locality. Every evening after the day's toil was over he would walk into the village, where his cheery word and bright smile were welcome. He was the soul of honor, did wrong to no person, and altogether lived a live that was exemplary. We shall miss him, gentleman of the old school that he was.
[Transcribed from an article in the Perth Journal, forwarded by Barbara Purdy]

Family/Spouse: Agnes May. Agnes (daughter of May) was born about 1838 in Scotland; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• FindaGrave Memorial ID: 45706365
• _UID: 62C51BCCCB794997976B28777046B0CB0406
• Occupation: 1844, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Gilles Lumber Company shanty crew on Clyde River
• Occupation: Bef 1850; By his mid-teens became a 'timber cruiser' for John Gillies
• Census-Household Member: 1851, Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Canada
• Occupation: 1853, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Partnership, Gillies and McLaren Company was established.
• Occupation: Bef 1866, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Winters in the lumber shanties along the Clyde and Mississippi
• Land & Property: 1869, Carleton Place, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Purchased the Gilmour mills
• Residence: 1870, Perth, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Purchased Nevis Cottage, 61 Drummond Street West and adjoining 400 acre farm of Matthew Bell.
• Legal: 1875; Control of river improvements challenged.
• Legal: 1879; Conflict with the Caldwell Lumber Company
• Legal: 1880; Sought injunction against Boyd Caldwell in the Court of Chancery
• Land & Property: 1881, Pincher Creek, Claresholm District, Alberta, Canada; Purchased a 50 square mile timber limit east of Pincher Creek, Alberta.
• Land & Property: Bef 1897, Fort MacLeod, Claresholm Census Division, Alberta, Canada; Opened a second Alberta mill
• Land & Property: 1900, Blairmore, Crowsnest Pass, Canmore Census Division, Alberta, Canada; /built a modern mill and damed Allison Creek to move logs to the mill
• Land & Property: 1902, Pincher Creek, Claresholm District, Alberta, Canada; Mountain Mill operation was closed when buildings and equipment were destroyed by a flood.
• Hobby: 1908, Perth, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Purchased the first motor car owned by a resident of Perth - a Maxwell touring model
• Land & Property: 1920, Covington, Virginia, United States; Douthall Tract

Notes:

McLAREN, Hon. Senator Peter ? Retired lumberman, Perth, Ont.; owner of 100,000 acres of valuable timber lands in Virginia, upon which are also valuable ore mines. Born in Lanark, Ontario, Sept. 22, 1831, son of the late James McLaren formerly of Perth, Scotland, and the late Margaret McLaren, daughter of the late Peter McLaren, of Lochiels Regiment, which engaged in quelling the Irish Rebellion, 1815. Educated: Public Schools. Began to learn the lumber business, 1844, gaining a thorough knowledge of hauling timber, rafting and milling; a partner, Gillies & McLaren, Carlton Place, 1855, which firm bought out the large Gilmour business, consisting of about three hundred square miles of timber on the Mississippi River, Ont., as well as working the Madawaska limits; became Sole Proprietor, 1890; the firm manufactured all kinds of sawn lumber and square timber, the former being for Canadian and United States markets, and the latter for European trade. Summoned to the Senate, 1890. Married Sophia Lees, daughter of the late William Lees, Lanark, Ont., and Granddaughter of the late Col. Playfair, of the old Canadian Parliament, Nov. 22, 1867; has two sons and three daughters. Conservative; Presbyterian. Residence: "Nevis Cottage," Perth, Ont.

Who's Who and Why
A Biographical Dictionary of Men and Women of Canada and Newfoundland
Volumes 6-7, Page 1319

FindaGrave Memorial ID:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/45706365

Occupation:
Once a timber site was close to being 'logged out', timber cruisers surveyed un harvested territory to select new job sites. The value of timber, access to streams and rivers and the logistics of purchasing and delivering supplies and other factors could make the difference between profit and loss.

Census-Household Member:
Role: Household Member


Occupation:
"Gillies, in the informal way of the day, told him they would work henceforth as partners, and such was the basis of an agreement on which the Gillies and McLaren Company was founded, and on which a generation later, the adjustment o hundreds of thousands of dollars turned."
A Hundred Years A-Fellin', 1842-1942, edited by Charlotte Whitton (1942).
Peter McLaren was 22 years of age.

Occupation:
"For 20 years, from the time he first went into the bush in the winter of 1844, Peter McLaren had no permanent residence. Initially he passed his winters in the lumber shanties along the Clyde and Mississippi, and the summer seasons back on the family farm in Lanark township. As he became more deeply involved in the Gillies Lumber Company business, cruising new limits, and then as a partner from 1853, he seemed to have lived periodically at Carleton Place, Lanark, Snow Road, and at the shanties he supervised. In the census of 1851 he was living with his widowed mother and siblings in Lanark township. The census taker af 1861 failed to find him, probably deep in the bush somewhere in the Mississippi River basin."
?i?Mississippi Lumber Baron, Ron Shaw, 2016 ?/i?

Land & Property:
At the same time, the Boyd Caldwell company built the second large sawmill in Carleton Place. By 1875 his steam powered mill, managed by son William, employed 75 men working 10 hours per day, six days a week.

Residence:
Drummond Twp, Concession 2 Lots 3 & 4.
In the 1870s, McLaren made two additions to the house, more than doubling its original size to 7,700 square feet. Main house is stone, additions are of yellow brick, with a turret and copper tile roof. He hired the firm of Jones and Fuller who between 1850 and 1866 had built the centre block of the Canadian Parliament buildings and St. James Anglican Church in Perth.
?i?Ron Shaw?/i?

Legal:
Until this time lumbermen operating on the upper Mississippi River conceded, without complaint, to Gillies-McLaren, and later to McLaren, the right to control their improvements on the river. Competing companies paid tolls to pass their logs through the slides and channels, or held back their drives until McLaren opened his dams and booms.
In 1875, The Buck and Stewart Company forced its spring drive down river, cutting through the McLaren boom at Ragged Chute in Palmerston Township (Frontenac County) and opened a 20 foot gap in the McLaren dam at High Falls in North Sherbrooke township, Lanark County. McLaren sued for damages but legal action was terminated when company owner Buck was committed to the Ontario Insane Asylum.
?i?Ron Shaw?/i?

Legal:
In 1878 the Caldwell Lumber Company bought timber limits on the upper Mississippi. The following spring, taking a page from the unfortunate Buck, Caldwell cut McLaren dams and booms and drove his logs, from a timber limit adjacent to Buckshot Creek below Buckshot Lake, through to Carleton Place.

Legal:
When Boyd Caldwell tried to force another drive through the McLaren works in the spring of 1880, Peter McLaren sought an injunction against Boyd Caldwell." The judicial decisions 'ping ponged' between for and against Caldwell/McLaren. Caldwell moved on to the political front. Caldwell was successful in obtaining rapid legislative action via his hephew, William C. Caldwell, a member of Mowat's Liberal Pary representing South Lanark County. Although McLaren's father-in-law, William Lees, was also a member of the legislature, he was a member of the opposition Conservative Party.
McLaren protested the low toll rates proscribed by the bill and turned to the Federal government of Sir John A. Macdonald who promptly overturned the Ontario Provincial legislation. The two levels of government battled for control through 1882-1883.

In 1882, Caldwell's men cut through McLaren dams blocking a drive at the foot of Long Lake and brought 10,000 logs down river to Carleton Place in 1883.

McLaren took his case to the Supreme Court of Canada who, on 28 November 1882, ruled in his favour.

Caldwell took his case to the highest of all courts, the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in Britian which ruled in 1884 that all waterways were open to all, although private interests could charge a reasonable amount for the use of any improvements leading to the 'Rivers and Streams Act'.

?i?Ron Shaw?/i?

Land & Property:
The timber limit encompassed Mill, Star, Allison and York creeks and a sawmill on York Creek. The mill had been established by the Canadian government in 1879 as a project to support a nearby First Nations reserve, but after two years the government declared the venture a failure and sold it to McLaren. Under the management of his brother-in-law William Robert Lees, the mill was quickly turned into a profitable operation and the centre of the new village of Mountain Mill.

Land & Property:
The second Alberta mill was opened 40 miles to the east of Mountain Mill in time to profit from the 1897-98 construction of the Crowsnest Pass Railway. McLaren sold the CPR railway ties and his loggers hand hewed the numerous Douglas firs in advance of the track layers. The new rail line also served to open market access for the McLaren Lumber Company mills, allowing lumber to be shipped east.

Land & Property:
Telephone stations were built along the six miles of flume to report log jams so that the water flow could be shut down. The Blairmore plant had an annual capacity of seven to eight million board feet. In the early 1880s coal had been discovered in the area and when commercial extraction began at Beaver Mines in the early 1900s, the mines provided a huge market for timber pit props and other constructions.

Land & Property:
When his estate put the Virginia holdings on the market, the anticipated repatriation of sale proceeds boosted the value of the Canadian dollaar against the American currency by 12%.

?i?"A property of 100,000 acres of Virginia timber and ore lands was bequeathed to the widow, three daughters and two sons of the late Hon. Peter McLaren of Perth, a member of the Canadian Senate. Senator McLaren died in May 1919 and the estate was probated at $1,000,000.

Baltimore interests are now completing, or have completed, negotiations for the purchase of the McLaren property. The authority in the negotiations is the New York office of J. Pierpont Morgan. The price mentioned in the deal is between $25,000,000 and $30,000,000 cash."
?/i?
However, despite the hype, the Virginia iron mines had not been profitable. Six years later, the mines were still on the market when an Ontario judge noted that,

?i?"the estate of Peter McLaren was found to be in a very involved condition, his main estate consisting of a large tract of land in Virginia of very uncertain value and which has so faar proved to be unsaleable. The resources of the estate have been somewhat taxed to meet the outgoing obligations for taxes, etc. and the result has been that comparatively small sums have been paid to the beneficiaries. Owing to some dissention in the family as to the management of the estate, an administration decree has been pronounced..."?/i?

His trustees were dismissed and disputes over the estate's real value led to litigation for years. Shareholders sued and finally settled for about half the value of their claims. Nevis Cottage remained in McLaren hands for another 35 years. Widow Sophia Lees McLaren died there in 1923 and it was only when daughter Annie Kathleen died in 1954 that the household was broken up. The ?i?"prestigious auction house of Ward-Price of Toronto were brought in and the Senator's chattels fell under the hammer at enormous prices."?/i?

Died:
On Friday, May 23, 1919 Peter McLaren, aged 87 years, died at his Nevis Cottage home in Perth.

"His early years were spent as a boy on the parental farm and later in the lumbering woods, where he became an expert in the occupation which was his special work and occupation in after years, and by which he acquired great wealth and influence.

After the sale of his limits and mills, Mr. McLaren retired from industrial life, and to bear with dignity the honors of new political life, he having been made a member of he Dominion Senate in the year 1890 by the Conservative Government of the day.

The hardships of his youger days in the lumbering and in the drivers' camps entailed intermittent attacks of rheumatism, and these lasted until the end of his life.

His funeral took place on Sunday, May 25th, to Elmwood Cemetery, the Rev. Dr. Scott ?i?(Alexander Hugh Scott, grandfather of figure skater, Barbara Ann Scott)?/i? of St. Andrew's Church, conducting the service. Pallbearers - David McLaren, nephew ?i?(1844-1926 a cousin, not nephew, son of Peter 1813-1890 and Janet Stewart 1802-1896)?/i?, Drummond; Judge W.S. Senkler ?i?(William Stevens)?/i?, Perth; Dr. Preston, MPP ?i?(Richard Franklin)?/i?, Carleton Place; George Ritchie, Barrister, Toronto; P.J.C. MacDonnell, Manager Bank of Montreal, Perth ?i?(Philip John Cotter)?/i?; W.B. Hart, Perth ?i?(William Brown)?/i?.

?i?From the Canadian Lumerman and Woodworker:?/i?
Peter McLaren, of Perth, Ont., a veteran figure in the lumber and legislative world has joined the silent majority. Early in life he entered upon a successful and honorable business career, and he leaves a name and record revered by all and by none more than his fellow residents in Perth, where he spent so many years.

The [McLaren] firm manufactured all kinds of sawn lumber and square timber, the former being for the Canadian and United States, and the latter for the European trade. A few years ago, he retired from active business to enjoy life at his beautiful residence 'Nevis Cottage', Perth, Ont.

For nearly 30 years Mr. McLaren occupied a seat in the Dominion Senate, having been summoned to that distinguished body in 1890. He was a Conservative and a Presbyterian.

Peter married Sophia Elizabeth Lees on 22 Nov 1867. Sophia (daughter of William Lees and Mary Playfair) was born on 7 Nov 1845; died on 29 May 1923 in Perth, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; was buried in Elmwood Cemetery, Perth, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Lanark Village, Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Merchant - store later became Buffam's Tavern
• _UID: C54EE66DF8134245BB280492DEABF4200ED4
• Census-Household Member: 1851, Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Canada
• Census-Household Member: 1861, Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Canada

Notes:

Census-Household Member:
Role: Household Member


Census-Household Member:
Role: Household Member
Living in innn of John Bowes with others including siblings of John

Other Events and Attributes:

• _UID: 6029DC32EDB74ED98565CAE9C377E91A3C30
• Census-Household Member: 1851, Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Canada
• Census-Household Member: 1861, Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Canada

Notes:

A lumber man, he worked for his brother Senator Peter McLaren for many years. When the Upper Mississippi lumber limits passed to the Canada Lumber Company he moved to Perth and superintended the farm of his brother Peter.

Census-Household Member:
Role: Household Member


Census-Household Member:
Role: Household Member
Living in innn of John Bowes with others including siblings of John

Family/Spouse: Annie Maria Gear. Annie was born on 13 Jul 1861 in England; died on 25 Dec 1935 in Perth, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; was buried in Elmwood Cemetery, Perth, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• FindaGrave Memorial ID: 46940141
• _UID: 9A35A27BF1F64C24AA962283E1E65A7AC319
• Census-Household Member: 1861, Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Canada

Notes:

FindaGrave Memorial ID:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/46940141

Census-Household Member:
Role: Household Member
Living in innn of John Bowes with others including siblings of John

Other Events and Attributes:

• FindaGrave Memorial ID: 125895958
• Occupation: Dealer in Lumber
• _UID: 33B55CE35F2E4B62AFE680C41BB9D1D2B1C9
• Census: 1861, Lutterworth, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada; Canada
• Census-Household Member: 1861, Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Canada
• Immigration: 1887, United States
• Census: 1900, Ardoch, Walsh County, North Dakota, United States; USA
• Census: 1910, Lewiston, Nez Perce County, Idaho, United States; USA

Notes:

FindaGrave Memorial ID:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/125895958

Occupation:
East Grand Forks Valley View newspaper, October 1904: "William McLaren who formerly owned a lumber yard in Ardoch, North Dakota, is spending a few days in Grand Forks calling on friends and acquaintances. He and the family now live in Lewiston, Idaho where they have all taken lumber claims."


Census-Household Member:
Role: Household Member
Living in innn of John Bowes with others including siblings of John

Census:
1602 - 15th Ave

Died:
Lewiston Morning Tribune
Monday, September 2, 1912

William M'Laren Dead.

Succumbed to Attack of Heart Disease Last Night.

William McLaren, for the past nine years a resident of Lewiston, coming here with his family from North Dakota, died at the family home in Blanchard Heights yesterday evening at 7 o'clock from heart disease, from which he had been suffering in a mild form for some time. At the time of Mr. McLaren's death his wife and son, William, Jr., were in the home, but immediately prior to his passing away the improved condition of his health had been remarked on. Besides a wife the deceased is survived by three children, Miss Edith McLaren, William McLaren, Jr., and Mrs. Ray Morris, all of whom are at present in the city. The funeral arrangements have not as yet been completed, but due notice of the day and hour will be announced later. Mr. McLaren was a native of Ontario, having been born there March 17, 1827.

Name:?tab?William Mclaren
Gender:?tab?Male
Marital Status:?tab?Married
Race:?tab?White
Age:?tab?75
Birth Date:?tab?17 Mar 1837
Birth Place:?tab?Ontario, Canada
Death Date:?tab?1 Sep 1912
Death Place:?tab?Lewiston, Nez Perce, Idaho
Burial Date:?tab?3 Sep 1912
Burial Place:?tab?Lewiston, Ida.
Father:?tab?James Mclaren
Mother:?tab?Margaret Mclaren
FHL Film Number:?tab?1516565
Reference ID:?tab?P. 75, Reg. No. 101

Source Information
Ancestry.com. Idaho, Select Deaths and Burials, 1907-1965 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc, 2014.
Original data: Idaho, Deaths and Burials, 1907-1965. Salt Lake City, Utah: FamilySearch, 2013.


Name:?tab?William McLaren
Birth Place:?tab?Ontario, Can.
Birth Date:?tab?17 Mar 1837
Death Place:?tab?Lewiston, Nez Perce, Idaho, USA
Death Date:?tab?1 Sep 1912
Father:?tab?James McLaren
Father's Birth Place:?tab?Scotland
Mother:?tab?Margaret McLaren
Mother's Birth Place:?tab?Scotland
Certificate Year:?tab?1912
Certificate Number:?tab?003035

Source Information
Ancestry.com. Idaho, Death Index, 1890-1964 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2003.
Original data: Bureau of Health Policy and Vital Statistics. Idaho Death Index, 1911-51. Boise, ID, USA: Idaho Department of Health and Welfare.

William married Janie Elizabeth Stevenson on 3 Sep 1877 in Clarendon Twp, North Frontenac County, Ontario, Canada. Janie was born on 5 Apr 1860 in Ireland; died on 14 Mar 1926 in Spokane, Spokane County, Washington, United States; was buried in Normal Hill Cemetery, Lewiston, Nez Perce County, Idaho, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• _UID: 4989C30327E2433DA7876081035C677E74CF
• Census-Household Member: 1851, Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Canada
• Census-Household Member: 1871, Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Canada
• Census-Household Member: 1881, Lanark Village, Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Canada

Notes:

Census-Household Member:
Role: Household Member


Census-Household Member:
Role: Household Member


Census-Household Member:
Role: Household Member

Jannet married John or James Bowes on 7 Oct 1858 in St Andrews Presbyterian Church, Perth, Ontario, Canada. John (son of James Bowes and Margaret Lawson) was born about 1835 in Bathurst Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• FindaGrave Memorial ID: 46940219
• _UID: A7B47364A2B94FEB8585D8902875F76B3841

Notes:

FindaGrave Memorial ID:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/46940219

Other Events and Attributes:

• FindaGrave Memorial ID: 46939575
• _UID: 20B3EBCED4C149279DE56382AA6DD313F5F0
• Immigration-Witness: 1821, Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; from Scotland, Paisley Townhead Emigration, Greenock 2 May 1821, Earl of Buckinghamshire to Upper Canada.
• Census: 1851, Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Canada
• Census: 1861, Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Canda
• Census: 1871, Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Canada
• Census: 1881, Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Canada
• Census: 1891, Lanark Village, Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Canada
• Residence: 1897, Lanark Village, Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Con 4 Lot 3W

Notes:

Scottish naming protocols (details here: http://david.mclaren.name/naming_protocols.htm) produced lots of McLarens with the same given name and no middle names. Any possible confusion was countered with "bynames." They might reflect occupation (e.g. Blacksmith Peter), or location (Lanark Peter), or physical character (Big and Little Peter). In this case we have ?i?Little Peter (born 1818)?/i?, the son of John (born 1776), distinguished from his first cousin Big Peter (born 1813), the son of his father's brother Peter (born 1779).
?i?
Emigration?/i?
Posted 18 Oct 2013 by david_j_mclaren
To Canada from Scotland on ship Earl of Buckinghamshire in 1821 and located on West Lot 1, Con 4, Lanark Township, Village of Lanark (Paisley Townhead Emigration Society) ( Ref: The Lanark Society settlers by Carol Bennet and The Lanark Society settlers Ships' Lists of the Glasgow Emigration Society 1821, by Gerald J. Neville)
Earl of Buckinghamshire left Greenock, Scotland 29 Apr 1821 with 607 passengers, arrived Quebec 15 Jun 1821, aboard: MCLAREN, John; age 45, female 43, sons 23, 22, dau 6, 2.

McLaren Peter 1818 grave script
Inscription at base of headstone: A loving friend a husband dear. A tender parent lieth here. Great is the loss we here sustain. But hope in heaven to meet again.

From Findagrave
Peter McLaren, son of John McLaren and Margaret Stirling, was born in 1818 in Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland. In 1821 he emigrated with his parents to Lanark, Ontario, Canada. He was known as "Little Peter," to distinguish him from his first cousin "Big Peter" McLaren, who was born in 1813, lived on the farm next door, and is also buried in Lanark Village Cemetery. On March 24, 1842 he married Mary MacDonald and they started their family while living and working on his parents' farm. Mary MacDonald died in 1856, shortly after the birth of their fifth child, and Little Peter raised his children with the help of his parents until they both died in 1859. With the help of his children, Peter maintained the family farm until his death in 1898.

?i?Tweedsmuir Histories of McLaren Farms?/i?

Women's Institutes across the provinces, encouraged by Lord and Lady Tweedsmuir (Governor-General of Canada), collect historical information about the area and communities in their district. The Women's Institute of Ontario created a Tweedsmuir Village History for Lanark which includes farm histories.
The following farm history is from a Tweedsmure book in the museum at Middleville, Lanark, Ontario. Transcribed by John Roberts, copied by Barbara I. Purdy, it is re-re-transcribed here with McLaren given names highlighted and my comments in brackets. An explanation of the land survey method for Lots/Concessions can be found here: http://david.mclaren.name/family_farms.htm

W ? of Lot 1, Concession 4
Township of Lanark
West half of Lot 1 in 4th Concession '96 100 acres
East part of Lot 1 in 3rd Concession '96 50 acres
Sometime during the year 1820 [my records indicate July of 1821] there arrived among a group of pioneers from Scotland, John McLaren, who with his family had come to Canada to find a home in the New land. After arriving in Perth he pushed onward to Lanark Village, then only a cluster of huts on the banks of the Clyde. John McLaren took up location about one mile east of Lanark Village and built himself a log shanty where the present barn now stands. Later as he carved out his farm from the forest and grew more prosperous, he built a more substantial log house which still withstands wind and weather one hundred and twenty years later.
Upon the death of John McLaren the farm passed to his son, known as "Little" Peter, who married Mary McDonald from a neighboring township bringing her to her new home on horseback. The farm now consisted of 100 acres in Lot one '96 Concession four '96 and "Little" Peter later acquired fifty acres adjoining in Concession three from one Doctor Wilson who was married to his sister.
Peter McLaren had two sons and two daughters [There was a fifth child, daughter Mary, who died in 1871 at age 17.] and upon his death the farm passed to his son Duncan who married Margaret Bowes. [This is not possible, as both Duncan and his wife Margaret predeceased "Little" Peter '96 though Duncan lived and farmed this land with his widowed father for more than three decades prior to Duncan's death.] Their children were Mary, John Peter and Mervin. Of these Mervin and John Peter are now living '96 Mervin in Ottawa, John Peter in British Columbia.
In 1903 the farm was purchased by John Roberts. Four years later he erected a new barn to replace the old cluster of log barns and in 1926 built the present home where the family now reside. He married Jenny Dunlop and to them were born eight children, Wm, Elsie, Isobel, Boyd, Mervin, Jennie,
Agnes and George now deceased. Mervin now resides at home with his wife and two children, Douglas and Barbara.

[Added note, hand written on side of page: Douglas Roberts and his wife Ruby McOwatt and ten children now reside here. In 1991 Douglas and Ruby own the house and Robert Graham part of the farm.]

(Research):Tweedsmuir Histories of McLaren Farms

Women's Institutes across the provinces, encouraged by Lord and Lady Tweedsmuir (Governor-General of Canada), collect historical information about the area and communities in their district. The Women's Institute of Ontario created a Tweedsmuir Village History for Lanark which includes farm histories.
The following farm history is from a Tweedsmure book in the museum at Middleville, Lanark, Ontario. Transcribed by John Roberts, copied by Barbara I. Purdy, it is re-re-transcribed here with McLaren given names highlighted and my comments in brackets. An explanation of the land survey method for Lots/Concessions can be found here: http://david.mclaren.name/family_farms.htm

W ? of Lot 1, Concession 4
Township of Lanark
West half of Lot 1 in 4th Concession '96 100 acres
East part of Lot 1 in 3rd Concession '96 50 acres
Family farm
Posted 28 Mar 2014 by david_j_mclaren

Sometime during the year 1820 [my records indicate July of 1821] there arrived among a group of pioneers from Scotland, John McLaren, who with his family had come to Canada to find a home in the New land. After arriving in Perth he pushed onward to Lanark Village, then only a cluster of huts on the banks of the Clyde. John McLaren took up location about one mile east of Lanark Village and built himself a log shanty where the present barn now stands. Later as he carved out his farm from the forest and grew more prosperous, he built a more substantial log house which still withstands wind and weather one hundred and twenty years later.
Upon the death of John McLaren the farm passed to his son, known as "Little" Peter, who married Mary McDonald from a neighboring township bringing her to her new home on horseback. The farm now consisted of 100 acres in Lot one '96 Concession four '96 and "Little" Peter later acquired fifty acres adjoining in Concession three from one Doctor Wilson who was married to his sister.
Peter McLaren had two sons and two daughters [There was a fifth child, daughter Mary, who died in 1871 at age 17.] and upon his death the farm passed to his son Duncan who married Margaret Bowes. [This is not possible, as both Duncan and his wife Margaret predeceased "Little" Peter '96 though Duncan lived and farmed this land with his widowed father for more than three decades prior to Duncan's death.] Their children were Mary, John Peter and Mervin. Of these Mervin and John Peter are now living '96 Mervin in Ottawa, John Peter in British Columbia.
In 1903 the farm was purchased by John Roberts. Four years later he erected a new barn to replace the old cluster of log barns and in 1926 built the present home where the family now reside. He married Jenny Dunlop and to them were born eight children, Wm, Elsie, Isobel, Boyd, Mervin, Jennie,
Agnes and George now deceased. Mervin now resides at home with his wife and two children, Douglas and Barbara.

[Added note, hand written on side of page: Douglas Roberts and his wife Ruby McOwatt and ten children now reside here. In 1991 Douglas and Ruby own the house and Robert Graham part of the farm.]

FindaGrave Memorial ID:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/46939575

Immigration-Witness:
Role: Witness
Woman age 43, male children 23, 22; female 6, 2.

Transcribed from (film of) original documents held in the collection of the National Archives of Canada [Ottawa]: MG 11, Colonial Office 42, vol. 159, part 3, page 508, list 23/24.

Died:
Peter McLaren, son of John McLaren and Margaret Stirling, was born in 1818 in Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland. In 1821 he emigrated with his parents to Lanark, Ontario, Canada. He was known as "Little Peter," to distinguish him from his first cousin "Big Peter" McLaren, who was born in 1813, lived on the farm next door, and is also buried in Lanark Village Cemetery. On March 24, 1842 he married Mary MacDonald and they started their family while living and working on his parents' farm. Mary MacDonald died in 1856, shortly after the birth of their fifth child, and Little Peter raised his children with the help of his parents until they both died in 1859. With the help of his children, Peter maintained the family farm until his death in 1898.

THE LANARK ERA
Wed. May 11th, 1898 - death
This morning at 7 O'clock, Mr. Peter McLaren, breathed his last. He was eighty years old, having been born in Glasgow, Scotland in the year 1818 and came to this country in 1822 with his parents, Mr. & Mrs. John McLaren, who settled on Lot #1 in the 4th concession of Lanark Twp. (within the Corporation of the village). When young he married Miss Mary MacDonald, a native of Scotland, who died about forty-two years ago. They had a family of five, of whom two are dead, Mary and Duncan. The surviving members of the family are: Mrs. R. Wallace, of Chicago, Mrs. David McLaren and Mr. John McLaren of Drummond. Funeral will be on Friday afternoon to the Lanark Cemetery.

PERTH COURIER
May 13, 1898
The Era chronicled the death of Peter McLaren of Lanark on Wednesday morning of heart trouble and appendicitis. Deceased was born in Glasgow, Scotland in 1818 and came with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. John McLaren, to Canada in 1822. The family settled on Lot 1, 4th Concession Lanark. His wife was Mary McDonald, also a native of Scotland who died 42 years ago. Two of their five children are dead, the survivors being Mrs. H. Wallace of Chicago; Mrs. David McLaren and Mrs. John McLaren of Drummond. He was a member of St. Andrews Presbyterian Church and in politics was a Liberal. (Transcriber's note, checked this twice it was "Mrs" David McLaren and "Mrs." John McLaren)

PERTH COURIER - Hope Book 1890-1899 pg. 336
At Lanark, Ontario May 11, 1898 Peter McLaren age 80 years - born in Glasgow, Scotland, in 1818 and came to Canada with his parents Mr. & Mrs. John McLaren in 1822, settling at Lot 1, Con. 4, Lanark Twp. His wife was Mary MacDonald, a native of Scotland who died 42 years ago. They have 2 children deceased. The survivors are Mar. R. Wallace, Chicago, Mrs. David McLaren and Mr. John Mclaren of Drummond Twp. He attended the Presbyterian Church.

Peter married Mary McDonald on 24 Mar 1842 in First Presbyterian Church, Perth, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada. Mary (daughter of Duncan McDonald and Catherine Stuart) was born about 1819 in Lochearnhead, Perthshire, Scotland; died about 1856 in Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Census-Household Member: 1850, Junius, Seneca County, New York, United States; USA
• Census-Household Member: 1860, Galesburg, Knox County, Illinois, United States; USA
• Occupation: 1860, Galesburg, Knox County, Illinois, United States; Clerk
• Census-Household Member: 1870, Wakenda, Carroll County, Missouri, United States; USA
• Occupation: 1870, Wakenda, Carroll County, Missouri, United States; Merchant
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• Census-Household Member: 1850, Junius, Seneca County, New York, United States; USA
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• Census-Household Member: 1870, Wakenda, Carroll County, Missouri, United States; USA
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123 Robey Street

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• FindaGrave Memorial ID: 67810724
• _UID: 6F8A3DE5AA1447978A02343E0D44A04BF13D
• Census-Household Member: 1851, Beckwith Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Canada
• Census-Household Member: 1861, Leeds County, Ontario, Canada; Canada
• Census-Wife of Head: 1861, Leeds County, Ontario, Canada; Canada
• Census-Wife of Head: 1871, Leeds County, Ontario, Canada; Canada
• Census-Wife of Head: 1881, Leeds County, Ontario, Canada; Canada

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Con 6 L15 & 16 - 300 acres

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Leeds Rear and Lansdowne Rear
Source Citation
Year: 1871; Census Place: Leeds Rear and Lansdowne Rear, Leeds South, Ontario; Roll: C-10001; Page: 63; Family No: 233
Source Information
Ancestry.com and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. 1871 Census of Canada [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2009.
Original data: Library and Archives Canada. Census of Canada, 1871. Ottawa, Ontario, Canada: Library and Archives Canada, n.d.. RG31-C-1. Statistics Canada Fonds. Microfilm reels: C-9888 to C-9975, C-9977 to C-10097, C-10344 to C-10388, C-10390 to C-10395, to C-10540 to C-10570.

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Margaret married Henry McPherson in 1854. Henry (son of John McPherson and Mary Murray) was born on 21 Apr 1828 in New Bastford, Oneida, New York, United States; died on 7 May 1896 in Detroit, Sanilac County, Michigan, United States; was buried in Washington Township Cemetery, Carsonville, Sanilac County, Michigan, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Census-Household Member: 1851, Beckwith Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Canada

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• FindaGrave Memorial ID: 188169881
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• Census-Household Member: 1851, Beckwith Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Canada
• Census-Household Member: 1861, Beckwith Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Canada
• Occupation: 1869, Carleton Place, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Farmer
• Census-Household Member: 1871, Carleton Place, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Canada

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rom FAG Contributor # 49329383
1887, Friday October 28
The Almonte Gazette, Friday, 28 October 1887, Front Page
Mr Joseph Wilson, of Carleton Place, died on Friday evening last, after a few weeks' illness from an affection of the liver. Few men were better known throughout this section than deceased ? he having been prominently before the public as proprietor of the "Wilson House" for ten or twelve years ? and his geniality and goodheartedness won him many warm friends. Years ago he possessed an iron constitution, but, being his own worst friend, he took little care of it, for some time past had been a physical wreck. He was but 44 years and 10 months old at the time of his death. The funeral, which took place to the 8th line cemetery on Monday, was largely attended, and as the cortege moved along expression of deep sympathy and regret were heard on all sides. A widow and three children are left.

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Side 1: Charles Patterson died April 22, 1894 Aged 80 years. His wife Jane Lochead Feb. 15, 1903 Aged 88 years.
Side 2: Joseph Wilson died Oct. 22, 1887 Aged 44 years. His wife Martha M. Patterson 1849-1922.
Side 3: Robert Cavanagh 1835-1921 his wife Martha M. Patterson Wilson 1849-1922.
Side 4: William Wilson M.D. died July 4, 1887 Aged 82 years. His wife Janet McLaren Jan. 8, 1892 Aged 79 years.

Joseph married Martha Matilda Patterson on 22 Dec 1869 in Lanark County, Ontario, Canada. Martha (daughter of Charles Patterson and Jane Lochead) was born about 1849 in Perth, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; died in Carleton Place, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; was buried in Auld Kirk Cemetery, Mississippi Mills, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• _UID: 1CADBEC38FDB48C59692013D2397746CC192
• Census-Household Member: 1851, Beckwith Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Canada
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• _UID: 4502B14357E247EFB360A481F3932526B304
• Census-Household Member: 1851, Beckwith Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Canada
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• Census-Household Member: 1851, Beckwith Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Canada
• Census-Household Member: 1861, Beckwith Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Canada
• Census-Household Member: 1871, Carleton Place, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Canada

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• Census-Household Member: 1861, Beckwith Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Canada

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• Census-Household Member: 1861, Beckwith Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Canada

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• FindaGrave Memorial ID: 139317660
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• Census-Household Member: 1851, Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Canada
• Census-Household Member: 1861, Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Canda

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Catherine married Robert Duncan Wallace on 12 Feb 1864 in Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada. Robert (son of John Wallace and Margaret Robinson) was born in 1836 in Paisley Parish, Renfrewshire, Scotland; died on 29 Sep 1893 in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, United States; was buried in Oakwood Cemetery, Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• FindaGrave Memorial ID: 70608135
• _UID: 6984D3B3110A46F48BB7B73D7C2895F62DD3
• Census-Household Member: 1851, Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Canada
• Census-Household Member: 1861, Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Canda
• Census-Household Member: 1871, Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Canada
• Census: 1901, Drummond Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Canada

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John McLaren, 1845 - 1922.
Elizabeth Gallinger, wife of John McLaren, died June 14, 1911, aged 63 yrs.

Note: 19 Nov 1844 date of birth is from 1901 Canadian Census. 1911 Census says Oct 1844. Ontario, Canada, Deaths says 18 Oct 1844. Headstone says 1845.

Family/Spouse: Elizabeth Gallinger. Elizabeth (daughter of Jacob Gallinger) was born on 1 Apr 1848 in Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; died on 14 Jun 1911 in Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; was buried in Prestonvale Cemetery, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• FindaGrave Memorial ID: 46947667
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• Census-Household Member: 1851, Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Canada
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Margaret McLaren, daughter of "Little" Peter McLaren and Mary MacDonald, was born April 15, 1848 in Lanark Township, Ontario, Canada. On June 16, 1868 she married her second cousin David McLaren. David was a lumber man, working for his cousin Senator Peter McLaren. When the timber industry began to slow he became a farmer and they moved to Drummond Township where they raised four boys and five girls. Margaret's death at age 50 was due to "consumption," now known as tuberculosis. The disease was highly infectious and, in the age before antibiotics, greatly feared. The family tore town and then re-built their home to avoid contamination.

Margaret married David McLaren on 16 Jun 1868. David (son of Big Peter McLaren and Jannet Stewart) was born on 10 Apr 1844 in Perth, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; died on 18 Apr 1926 in Perth, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; was buried in Lanark Village Cemetery, Lanark, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• FindaGrave Memorial ID: 127209635
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• Census-Household Member: 1851, Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Canada
• Census-Household Member: 1861, Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Canda
• Census-Household Member: 1871, Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Canada
• Census-Household Member: 1881, Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Canada
• Census-Family Member: 1891, Lanark Village, Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Canada

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"Duncan" married Margaret "Maggie" Bowes on 24 Jul 1882 in Lanark Village, Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada. Margaret (daughter of John or James Bowes and Jannet McLaren) was born about 1862 in Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; died on 1 Sep 1890 in Lanark Village, Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; was buried in Lanark Village Cemetery, Lanark, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Census-Household Member: 1861, Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Canda
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• Census-Household Member: 1851, Perth, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Canada

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• Census-Household Member: 1851, Perth, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Canada

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Died:
Another Pioneer of the Community Answers Summons - Funeral Services Held Sunday Afternoon

William McLaren, one of the pioneer residents of the McCanna community, passed away in the county hospital in this city last Thursday, following a lingering illness which had kept him bedridden for some time.

Born October 30th, 1858, in Perth, Ontario, Mr. McLaren came to the McCanna community 61 years ago when a young man, and engaged in farming operations for a great many years. About seven years ago, when his health started to fail he moved to Grand Forks and lived there until about two years ago when they moved to this city and have resided here since. He was 83 years of age at the time of his death.

Mr. McLaren took a great deal of interest in local and county politics, and was at one time a county commissioner and served on the township boards for several terms.

Surviving are the widow, three daughters, Mrs. Mabel Collins and Mrs. Cora Engh of Grand Forks, and Mrs. Floyd Warcup of this city, a niece, Mrs. George Alexander of Minneapolis, eight grandchildren and three great grandchildren.

Masonic funeral services were conducted from the Masonic Temple in this city on Sunday afternoon at 3:00 o'clock, Dr. S.F. Halfyard officiating, and Rev. Nathan Daynard of the Presbyterian church preached the funeral sermon. Mrs. W. B. Bang sang "The Old Rugged Cross," accompanied by Mrs. Wm Klemer at the piano, and a quartette composed of Mr. and Mrs. Earl Stonehouse, Mrs. W. B. Bang and Amos D. Henry sang "Lead Kindly Light", with Mrs. Klemer accompanying. Interment was made in Bellevue cemetery.

The following were the pallbearers: John Virden, J.F. Sheehan, James Murphy, Frank, Leo and Leonard McMahon. Honorary pallbearers: C.N. Swanson, Nels Hemmingsen, I.O. Messelt, W.B. Bang, T.O. Stensrud and P.J. Peterson.

Family/Spouse: Belle Crawford. Belle was born on 8 Feb 1861 in Sherbrooke South Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; died about 1942 in Grand Forks, Grand Forks County, North Dakota, United States; was buried in Bellevue Cemetery, Larimore, Grand Forks County, North Dakota, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Census-Household Member: 1861, Perth, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Canada
• Census-Household Member: 1871, Perth, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Canada

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• Census-Household Member: 1861, Perth, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Canada
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• Census-Household Member: 1871, Perth, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Canada
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• Census-Household Member: 1871, Perth, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Canada
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• Residence: Wardner, British Columbia, Canada
• _UID: A36B68FA473B475387DD10236629A977D293
• Census-Household Member: 1861, Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Canada
• Census-Household Member: 1881, Lanark Village, Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Canada

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Living in innn of John Bowes with others including siblings of John

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• Residence: Spokane, Spokane County, Washington, United States
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• Census-Household Member: 1881, Lanark Village, Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Canada

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• Census-Household Member: 1881, Lanark Village, Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Canada

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• Residence: Marcellus, Onondaga County, New York, United States
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• Census-Household Member: 1881, Lanark Village, Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Canada

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• Census-Household Member: 1881, Lanark Village, Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Canada
• Census-Household Member: 1891, Lanark Village, Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Canada
• Census-Household Member: 1891, Lanark Village, Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Canada
• Census-Household Member: 1901, Lanark Village, Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Canada
• Census: 1911, Elizabethtown Twp, Leeds County, Ontario, Canada; Canada

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• Residence: Blairmore, Crowsnest Pass, Canmore Census Division, Alberta, Canada
• _UID: 5058482235EC46A29E3975B73739940C2E6B
• Census-Household Member: 1881, Lanark Village, Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Canada
• Census-Household Member: 1891, Lanark Village, Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Canada
• Census-Household Member: 1891, Lanark Village, Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Canada

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• Residence: Blairmore, Crowsnest Pass, Canmore Census Division, Alberta, Canada
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• Census-Household Member: 1881, Lanark Village, Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Canada
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• Census-Household Member: 1901, Lanark Village, Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Canada

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• Census-Household Member: 1891, Lanark Village, Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Canada
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• Census-Household Member: 1901, Lanark Village, Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Canada

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• Census-Household Member: 1901, Lanark Village, Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Canada

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Margaret married Francis William Hall about 1803. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Mary married Charles Lewis Beurid about 1897. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• FindaGrave Memorial ID: 45711739
• _UID: 073B6B8FF94D4FE594F7AE1C92FDF46EFCB6

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Daughter of Senator Peter McLaren. Kathleen was an invalid and cared for by a nurse throughout her life.

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• FindaGrave Memorial ID: 45706976
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Died:
Transcribed from The Perth Journal:
J.P.L. McLaren Dies At His Home
Former Perth Man Only Ill For Short Time in Springfield.
Special to The Journal.
PERTH, Ont. Sept. 15.-Deep regret was caused today to friends in Perth and district, by news of the sudden death of James L. P. McLaren, which occurred late yesterday in Springfield. Mass. Mr. McLaren was 56 years of age and a native of Perth, having been the son of the late Senator and Mrs. Peter McLaren. For the past few years he had resided in New Hampshire.
He is survived by his widow; one son, Peter Gay McLaren, of Oshawa; one daughter. Mrs. George Verral. of Toronto; and two sisters. Mrs. T. W. Hall, of Oshawa, and Miss Kathleen McLaren, of Perth.
The illness which resulted in Mr. McLaren's death was brief and the news of his death came as a great shock to his many friends here. He last visited Perth a few weeks ago to attend the wedding of his daughter. Members of his immediate family are bringing the body here where the funeral will be held from Nevis Cottage, Drummond street, home of the late Senator, on Tuesday afternoon at two o'clock standard time.

James married Isabel Frances Geddes about 1906. Isabel (daughter of Charles Gamble Geddes and Selena F. Sweetland) was born about Sep 1882 in Saskatchewan, Canada; died about 1971; was buried in Elmwood Cemetery, Perth, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• FindaGrave Memorial ID: 45702440
• _UID: D1F0B86810FB4486838BBBDD60E8D05CD02B

Notes:

William was the second son of Peter McLaren and Sophia Elizabeth Lees. He received his early education at Trinity College, Port Hope, Ontario. From there he traveled to Edinburgh, Scotland with his brother James to be educated at a boy's secondary school. Upon his return to Perth as a young man, William became the owner and operator of a mica mine located at the northwest end of Otty Lake, in Burgess township. This mine was widely known as simply "McLaren's Mine," and was the basis of operations for William and eventually, his wife Anna Gemmill. At the peak of operations at the mine, whose mica was used extensively for insulation of electrical motors, generators and home appliances, fifty men were employed, all of whom boarded and ate at the mine.
During a ten year period and due to his intense involvement with his mine, William took courses from the International Correspondence School of Mining and Engineering, with headquarters at Scranton, Pennsylvania. His studies further accentuated his fascination with historical artifacts, an attraction that had its beginning in his boyhood.
While he was a young boy, William spent his summers in and around the Perth area, including a cottage located on the Rideau Lakes. At this time (the late 19th century), there were many old Indian relics lying on the surface of the ground. Fascinated by these relics and artifacts, William began a journal (in the possession of the Perth Museum, along with the bulk of his collections) and recorded meticulously every artifact that he found. Many of them are accompanied by his own hand-drawn facsimiles of the artifacts. The journal represents an invaluable record of Indian artifacts that were found in the Perth area.
William's fascination with these artifacts, the material shards of a culture, did not end with his boyhood. His interest, if possible, grew as he aged, and he became involved in the study of the migratory patterns of different tribes, probably in order to determine more exactly the origins of his own artifacts, and to put his collection into some kind of overall perspective.
When William died in 1932, he left behind not only warm and cherished memories in those people who knew and loved him personally, but also a priceless collection of Indian artifacts, a physical reminder of the culture of a people who inhabited this country centuries before any organized settlement. His collection is a very representative and superlative one, surely a reflection of the man himself.

FindaGrave Memorial ID:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/45702440

William married Anna Lees Gemmell about 1910. Anna (daughter of Lawrence James Gemmell and Elizabeth Margaret Kellock) was born on 6 Jun 1884 in Perth, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; died about 1975 in Perth, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; was buried in Elmwood Cemetery, Perth, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• FindaGrave Memorial ID: 45707324
• _UID: D6369E4E78994FBFACCEBCB002946989851D

Notes:

James never married. He worked for his uncle, Senator Peter McLaren, at Brockville and MacLeod, Alberta in lumbering. After returning from the west he was employed as a shipper at Perth Shoe Company.

FindaGrave Memorial ID:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/45707324

Other Events and Attributes:

• _UID: 1FA807A552604BF68F26821015D54ECAAF2E
• Census-Household Member: 1900, Ardoch, Walsh County, North Dakota, United States; USA
• Occupation: 1900, Ardoch, Walsh County, North Dakota, United States; Bookkeeper

Notes:

Census-Household Member:
Role: Household Member


Died:
Name:?tab?William Burden Mclaren
Gender:?tab?Male
Age:?tab?78
Estimated birth year:?tab?abt 1881
Death Date:?tab?10 Aug 1959
Death Place:?tab?Spokane, Spokane, Washington
Father:?tab?William Mclaren
Mother:?tab?Elizabeth Stevenson
FHL Film Number:?tab?2033997
Reference ID:?tab?17110

Source Information
Ancestry.com. Washington, Select Death Certificates, 1907-1960 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014.
Original data: Washington, Death Certificates, 1907-1960. Salt Lake City, Utah: FamilySearch, 2013.

Other Events and Attributes:

• _UID: 9EF66D4B17944F4AA7B4CC38B3212E544512
• Census-Household Member: 1900, Ardoch, Walsh County, North Dakota, United States; USA
• Residence: 1926, Port Ludlow, Washington, United States

Notes:

Census-Household Member:
Role: Household Member

Family/Spouse: Ray Morris. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• FindaGrave Memorial ID: 115812420
• _UID: 617CF686F957478EA7428E259553EE8F7F8E
• Census-Household Member: 1900, Ardoch, Walsh County, North Dakota, United States; USA
• Census-Household Member: 1910, Lewiston, Nez Perce County, Idaho, United States; USA
• Residence: 1926, Lewiston, Nez Perce County, Idaho, United States

Notes:

FindaGrave Memorial ID:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/115812420

Census-Household Member:
Role: Household Member


Census-Household Member:
Role: Household Member
1602 - 15th Ave

Family/Spouse: Benjamin Morris. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• _UID: 51730F546E1243B782078B9F1AB38A19C42A

Other Events and Attributes:

• FindaGrave Memorial ID: 127210650
• _UID: 65962A3F7969488D91D8817AD6DE028DC2E8
• Census-Household Member: 1871, Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Canada
• Census-Household Member: 1881, Lanark Village, Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Canada

Notes:

(Medical):Deep vein thromboisis - complication - gangarene

FindaGrave Memorial ID:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/127210650

Census-Household Member:
Role: Household Member


Census-Household Member:
Role: Household Member

Margaret married "Duncan" McDonald McLaren on 24 Jul 1882 in Lanark Village, Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada. "Duncan" (son of Little Peter McLaren and Mary McDonald) was born on 12 Oct 1849 in Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; died on 19 Jan 1894 in Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; was buried in Lanark Village Cemetery, Lanark, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• _UID: 882D9A1F5B914CDA88D6C93C06C5E96A01E2
• Census-Household Member: 1871, Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Canada
• Census-Household Member: 1881, Lanark Village, Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Canada

Notes:

Census-Household Member:
Role: Household Member


Census-Household Member:
Role: Household Member

Other Events and Attributes:

• _UID: CD08576A137E45C395A12CD76D8EE67CC537
• Census-Household Member: 1881, Lanark Village, Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Canada

Notes:

Census-Household Member:
Role: Household Member

Other Events and Attributes:

• _UID: E73F669DD6354F2AA8C6B62F4ACD0591AD90
• Census-Household Member: 1881, Lanark Village, Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Canada

Notes:

Census-Household Member:
Role: Household Member

Other Events and Attributes:

• _UID: 740C46BD121948AF99590B1AF5BA72A582C9
• Census-Household Member: 1881, Lanark Village, Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Canada

Notes:

Census-Household Member:
Role: Household Member

Other Events and Attributes:

• FindaGrave Memorial ID: 139317660
• _UID: 232C1FA388BC43DDA66FAEB64F857AE52113
• Census-Household Member: 1851, Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Canada
• Census-Household Member: 1861, Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Canda

Notes:

FindaGrave Memorial ID:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/139317660

Census-Household Member:
Role: Household Member


Census-Household Member:
Role: Household Member

Catherine married Robert Duncan Wallace on 12 Feb 1864 in Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada. Robert (son of John Wallace and Margaret Robinson) was born in 1836 in Paisley Parish, Renfrewshire, Scotland; died on 29 Sep 1893 in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, United States; was buried in Oakwood Cemetery, Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• FindaGrave Memorial ID: 70608135
• _UID: 6984D3B3110A46F48BB7B73D7C2895F62DD3
• Census-Household Member: 1851, Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Canada
• Census-Household Member: 1861, Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Canda
• Census-Household Member: 1871, Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Canada
• Census: 1901, Drummond Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Canada

Notes:

FindaGrave Memorial ID:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/70608135

Census-Household Member:
Role: Household Member


Census-Household Member:
Role: Household Member


Census-Household Member:
Role: Household Member


Buried:
Inscription:
John McLaren, 1845 - 1922.
Elizabeth Gallinger, wife of John McLaren, died June 14, 1911, aged 63 yrs.

Note: 19 Nov 1844 date of birth is from 1901 Canadian Census. 1911 Census says Oct 1844. Ontario, Canada, Deaths says 18 Oct 1844. Headstone says 1845.

Family/Spouse: Elizabeth Gallinger. Elizabeth (daughter of Jacob Gallinger) was born on 1 Apr 1848 in Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; died on 14 Jun 1911 in Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; was buried in Prestonvale Cemetery, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• FindaGrave Memorial ID: 46947667
• _UID: 204C976890174211889963343DA74E277659
• Census-Household Member: 1851, Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Canada
• Census-Household Member: 1861, Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Canda
• Census-Household Member: 1871, Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Canada

Notes:

FindaGrave Memorial ID:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/46947667

Census-Household Member:
Role: Household Member


Census-Household Member:
Role: Household Member


Census-Household Member:
Role: Household Member


Died:
Margaret McLaren, daughter of "Little" Peter McLaren and Mary MacDonald, was born April 15, 1848 in Lanark Township, Ontario, Canada. On June 16, 1868 she married her second cousin David McLaren. David was a lumber man, working for his cousin Senator Peter McLaren. When the timber industry began to slow he became a farmer and they moved to Drummond Township where they raised four boys and five girls. Margaret's death at age 50 was due to "consumption," now known as tuberculosis. The disease was highly infectious and, in the age before antibiotics, greatly feared. The family tore town and then re-built their home to avoid contamination.

Margaret married David McLaren on 16 Jun 1868. David (son of Big Peter McLaren and Jannet Stewart) was born on 10 Apr 1844 in Perth, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; died on 18 Apr 1926 in Perth, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; was buried in Lanark Village Cemetery, Lanark, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• FindaGrave Memorial ID: 127209635
• _UID: AF69F650B30E4BB586B1F076C835AE1E8512
• Census-Household Member: 1851, Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Canada
• Census-Household Member: 1861, Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Canda
• Census-Household Member: 1871, Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Canada
• Census-Household Member: 1881, Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Canada
• Census-Family Member: 1891, Lanark Village, Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Canada

Notes:

FindaGrave Memorial ID:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/127209635

Census-Household Member:
Role: Household Member


Census-Household Member:
Role: Household Member


Census-Household Member:
Role: Household Member


Census-Household Member:
Role: Household Member


Census-Family Member:
Role: Family Member

"Duncan" married Margaret "Maggie" Bowes on 24 Jul 1882 in Lanark Village, Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada. Margaret (daughter of John or James Bowes and Jannet McLaren) was born about 1862 in Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; died on 1 Sep 1890 in Lanark Village, Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; was buried in Lanark Village Cemetery, Lanark, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• FindaGrave Memorial ID: 47410259
• _UID: 84F7DFBAD952410F83F1F76340415D043F09
• Census-Household Member: 1861, Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Canda
• Census-Household Member: 1871, Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Canada

Notes:

FindaGrave Memorial ID:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/47410259

Census-Household Member:
Role: Household Member


Census-Household Member:
Role: Household Member

Other Events and Attributes:

• _UID: DCDCAA34B07C4EDF961B285A0DC06AA9021B
• Census-Household Member: 1861, Leeds County, Ontario, Canada; Canada
• Census-Household Member: 1871, Leeds County, Ontario, Canada; Canada

Notes:

Census-Household Member:
Role: Household Member


Census-Household Member:
Role: Household Member
Leeds Rear and Lansdowne Rear
Source Citation
Year: 1871; Census Place: Leeds Rear and Lansdowne Rear, Leeds South, Ontario; Roll: C-10001; Page: 63; Family No: 233
Source Information
Ancestry.com and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. 1871 Census of Canada [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2009.
Original data: Library and Archives Canada. Census of Canada, 1871. Ottawa, Ontario, Canada: Library and Archives Canada, n.d.. RG31-C-1. Statistics Canada Fonds. Microfilm reels: C-9888 to C-9975, C-9977 to C-10097, C-10344 to C-10388, C-10390 to C-10395, to C-10540 to C-10570.

Other Events and Attributes:

• _UID: DC5672E0EBE14AF6A2EB87CB18B29D00D6ED
• Census: 1861, Leeds County, Ontario, Canada; Canada
• Census-Household Member: 1861, Leeds County, Ontario, Canada; Canada
• Census-Household Member: 1871, Leeds County, Ontario, Canada; Canada
• Census-Household Member: 1881, Leeds County, Ontario, Canada; Canada
• Residence: 1881, Leeds County, Ontario, Canada
• Census: 1891, Leeds County, Ontario, Canada; Canada
• Census: 1911, Leeds County, Ontario, Canada; Canada
• Census: 1921, Leeds County, Ontario, Canada; Canada
• Occupation: 1926, Frontenac County, Ontario, Canada; Farmer

Notes:

Census:
Con 6 L15 & 16 - 300 acres

Census-Household Member:
Role: Household Member


Census-Household Member:
Role: Household Member
Leeds Rear and Lansdowne Rear
Source Citation
Year: 1871; Census Place: Leeds Rear and Lansdowne Rear, Leeds South, Ontario; Roll: C-10001; Page: 63; Family No: 233
Source Information
Ancestry.com and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. 1871 Census of Canada [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2009.
Original data: Library and Archives Canada. Census of Canada, 1871. Ottawa, Ontario, Canada: Library and Archives Canada, n.d.. RG31-C-1. Statistics Canada Fonds. Microfilm reels: C-9888 to C-9975, C-9977 to C-10097, C-10344 to C-10388, C-10390 to C-10395, to C-10540 to C-10570.

Census-Household Member:
Role: Household Member


Died:
Kingston General Hospital

William married Jane See on 18 Jan 1881 in Frontenac County, Ontario, Canada. Jane (daughter of David See and Catherine Ashley) was born on 11 Apr 1859 in Pittsburgh Twp, Frontenac County, Ontario, Canada; died about 1939 in Leeds County, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• _UID: FF8C6EC5D0074C1B9FF42D52144A2FB04BA9
• Census-Household Member: 1871, Leeds County, Ontario, Canada; Canada
• Census-Household Member: 1881, Leeds County, Ontario, Canada; Canada
• Immigration: Abt Apr 1884, Michigan, United States; via port of Sarnia
• Residence: 1890, Carsonville, Sanilac County, Michigan, United States
• Occupation: 1900, Custer, Sanilac County, Michigan, United States; Merchant - Hardware
• Residence: 1900, Custer, Sanilac County, Michigan, United States
• Census: 1910, Sandusky, Sanilac County, Michigan, United States; USA
• Census: 1920, Sandusky, Sanilac County, Michigan, United States; USA
• Census: 1930, Sandusky, Sanilac County, Michigan, United States; USA
• Occupation: 1930, Sandusky, Sanilac County, Michigan, United States; Merchant - variety Store
• Census: 1940, Sandusky, Sanilac County, Michigan, United States; USA

Notes:

Census-Household Member:
Role: Household Member
Leeds Rear and Lansdowne Rear
Source Citation
Year: 1871; Census Place: Leeds Rear and Lansdowne Rear, Leeds South, Ontario; Roll: C-10001; Page: 63; Family No: 233
Source Information
Ancestry.com and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. 1871 Census of Canada [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2009.
Original data: Library and Archives Canada. Census of Canada, 1871. Ottawa, Ontario, Canada: Library and Archives Canada, n.d.. RG31-C-1. Statistics Canada Fonds. Microfilm reels: C-9888 to C-9975, C-9977 to C-10097, C-10344 to C-10388, C-10390 to C-10395, to C-10540 to C-10570.

Census-Household Member:
Role: Household Member

Robert married Elizabeth May "Effie" English on 27 Aug 1890 in Delaware, Sanilac County, Michigan, United States. Elizabeth (daughter of William George English and Mary Ann Mills) was born about Oct 1865 in Canada; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• FindaGrave Memorial ID: 131894952
• _UID: 1AB9BC86348E4A12B6D8C068FB386BC148E8
• Census-Household Member: 1871, Leeds County, Ontario, Canada; Canada
• Census-Household Member: 1881, Leeds County, Ontario, Canada; Canada
• Immigration: 1885, Michigan, United States

Notes:

FindaGrave Memorial ID:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/131894952

Census-Household Member:
Role: Household Member
Leeds Rear and Lansdowne Rear
Source Citation
Year: 1871; Census Place: Leeds Rear and Lansdowne Rear, Leeds South, Ontario; Roll: C-10001; Page: 63; Family No: 233
Source Information
Ancestry.com and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. 1871 Census of Canada [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2009.
Original data: Library and Archives Canada. Census of Canada, 1871. Ottawa, Ontario, Canada: Library and Archives Canada, n.d.. RG31-C-1. Statistics Canada Fonds. Microfilm reels: C-9888 to C-9975, C-9977 to C-10097, C-10344 to C-10388, C-10390 to C-10395, to C-10540 to C-10570.

Census-Household Member:
Role: Household Member

Other Events and Attributes:

• FindaGrave Memorial ID: 67811431
• _UID: B7ABB87DFF3E48BA9F27710BD0E22B6B6063
• Census-Household Member: 1871, Leeds County, Ontario, Canada; Canada
• Census-Household Member: 1881, Leeds County, Ontario, Canada; Canada
• Residence: 1898, Washington Twp, Sanilac County, Michigan, United States
• Census: 1900, Washington Twp, Sanilac County, Michigan, United States; USA

Notes:

FindaGrave Memorial ID:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/67811431

Census-Household Member:
Role: Household Member
Leeds Rear and Lansdowne Rear
Source Citation
Year: 1871; Census Place: Leeds Rear and Lansdowne Rear, Leeds South, Ontario; Roll: C-10001; Page: 63; Family No: 233
Source Information
Ancestry.com and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. 1871 Census of Canada [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2009.
Original data: Library and Archives Canada. Census of Canada, 1871. Ottawa, Ontario, Canada: Library and Archives Canada, n.d.. RG31-C-1. Statistics Canada Fonds. Microfilm reels: C-9888 to C-9975, C-9977 to C-10097, C-10344 to C-10388, C-10390 to C-10395, to C-10540 to C-10570.

Census-Household Member:
Role: Household Member

John married Elizabeth Louise "Lizzie" Harneck on 21 Dec 1898 in Carsonville, Sanilac County, Michigan, United States. Elizabeth (daughter of Charles Harneck and Catharine Trent) was born on 23 Dec 1870 in Sanilac County, Michigan, United States; died on 4 Dec 1949 in St. Clair County, Michigan, United States; was buried in Washington Township Cemetery, Carsonville, Sanilac County, Michigan, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• _UID: 3DC76814EB8E432094C58B363C697DEE866F
• Census-Household Member: 1871, Leeds County, Ontario, Canada; Canada
• Census-Household Member: 1881, Leeds County, Ontario, Canada; Canada

Notes:

Census-Household Member:
Role: Household Member
Leeds Rear and Lansdowne Rear
Source Citation
Year: 1871; Census Place: Leeds Rear and Lansdowne Rear, Leeds South, Ontario; Roll: C-10001; Page: 63; Family No: 233
Source Information
Ancestry.com and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. 1871 Census of Canada [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2009.
Original data: Library and Archives Canada. Census of Canada, 1871. Ottawa, Ontario, Canada: Library and Archives Canada, n.d.. RG31-C-1. Statistics Canada Fonds. Microfilm reels: C-9888 to C-9975, C-9977 to C-10097, C-10344 to C-10388, C-10390 to C-10395, to C-10540 to C-10570.

Census-Household Member:
Role: Household Member

Other Events and Attributes:

• FindaGrave Memorial ID: 139316800
• Name: May Wallace
• _UID: 2CF8942E43A548BB97E462051EF8B14BC5BA

Notes:

FindaGrave Memorial ID:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/139316800

Mary married Henry Pierson in 1884. Henry (son of Stephen W. Pierson and Elizabeth Burgess) was born on 14 May 1858 in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, United States; died on 17 Nov 1925 in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, United States; was buried in Oakwood Cemetery, Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• FindaGrave Memorial ID: 139317752
• _UID: E88C2E4782FA44AE8130E4AD0D7C19F12C4B

Notes:

FindaGrave Memorial ID:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/139317752

Died:
Name:?tab?Ida Wallace
Birth Date:?tab?abt 1875
Birth Place:?tab?Chicago, Cook, Illinois
Death Date:?tab?29 Nov 1891
Death Place:?tab?Chicago, Cook, Illinois
Burial Place:?tab?Oakwood, Cook Co., Illinois
Death Age:?tab?16
Race:?tab?White
Marital Status:?tab?Single
Gender:?tab?Female
FHL Film Number:?tab?1030974
Source Information
Ancestry.com. Cook County, Illinois, Deaths Index, 1878-1922 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011.
Original data:
Illinois, Cook County Deaths 1878? 1922." Index. FamilySearch, Salt Lake City, Utah, 2010. Illinois Department of Public Health. "Birth and Death Records, 1916? present." Division of Vital Records, Springfield, Illinois.

Other Events and Attributes:

• _UID: 1D5FA1F79D95441CA26B9441F13827D1A966

Other Events and Attributes:

• _UID: 53701A61636C40789FBCB994DAF0F1628AEB

Mary married Thomas Duncan on 6 Jul 1898 in Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada. Thomas was born about 1868 in Dalhousie & North Sherbrooke Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• FindaGrave Memorial ID: 70658398
• _UID: 13AE28527C4F40479F0951D6FA742EB2AA8D
• Census-Household Member: 1901, Drummond Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Canada

Notes:

FindaGrave Memorial ID:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/70658398

Census-Household Member:
Role: Household Member


Buried:
Inscription:
In Memory of Alexander McLaren, 1872 - 1951, his wife, Elizabeth Ida Patterson, Oct 4, 1875 - July 17, 1960.

Alexander married Elizabeth Ida Patterson on 19 Nov 1902 in Carleton Place, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada. Elizabeth (daughter of Charles Patterson and Sarah Wilson) was born on 4 Oct 1875 in Perth, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; died on 17 Jul 1960 in Perth, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; was buried in Prestonvale Cemetery, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• FindaGrave Memorial ID: 70608884
• _UID: 0EE7A64D8571464EB7A12E789107F893935E
• Occupation: 15 May 1906, North Bay, Nipissing District, Ontario, Canada; Tinsmith & Cornice Worker
• Residence: 18 May 1906, North Bay, Ontario, Canda; when married

Notes:

FindaGrave Memorial ID:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/70608884

Buried:
Inscription:
In Memory of Wm. F. McLaren, Aug 16, 1909, aged 34 yrs. 7 mos.
Buried with his parents and brothers Alexander and Wallace.

William married Mary Jane "Jennie" Mockett on 15 May 1906 in Carleton County, Ontario, Canada. Mary (daughter of William M. Mockett and Elizabeth E. Edmonds) was born about 1873 in Sussex, England; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• FindaGrave Memorial ID: 70657763
• _UID: 5480D7FDA7324D46A753D9022D5A727D5F8D

Notes:

FindaGrave Memorial ID:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/70657763

Died:
THE LANARK ERA
Wed. April 19th, 1899 - death
Wallace McLaren, son of Mr. John McLaren of Drummond, a fireman on the OA & PS, died of injuries 19th April. [Railway accident]
Wallace is buried with his parents and his brothers William and Alexander.

Buried:
Inscription:
In Memory of Wallace J. McLaren, died April 19, 1899, aged 22 yrs

Other Events and Attributes:

• _UID: 7AE2B9BDC9CF46E4B8A8FCE75C6724B6740C
• Census-Household Member: 1901, Drummond Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Canada

Notes:

Census-Household Member:
Role: Household Member

Other Events and Attributes:

• _UID: B79BEB811EAA4285BE3AFBA92E6CE576DED4
• Census-Household Member: 1901, Drummond Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Canada

Notes:

Census-Household Member:
Role: Household Member

Other Events and Attributes:

• FindaGrave Memorial ID: 177298602
• Name: Polly McLaren
• _UID: 05F9569B6E3D474AA07347BA36C44AA1246B

Notes:

FindaGrave Memorial ID:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/177298602

Family/Spouse: Campbell Dow. Campbell (son of John Dow and Mary Boyle) was born in 1861; died in 1949; was buried in Roy's Cemetery, Fullarton, Perth County, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• FindaGrave Memorial ID: 47298232
• Name: Nettie McLaren
• _UID: AE2789DBAFF84C0B92D8DE3BCAA64049B3B3

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Died:
Janet Stewart "Nettie" McLaren, second daughter of David McLaren and Margaret McLaren, was born March 20, 1875. When her mother died of tuberculosis in 1898 Nettie and her older sister, Mary, became the "ladies" of the household, caring for their younger siblings ? in particular the twin boys born in 1886. Nettie remained single all her life, joking that "there were no more McLaren cousins to marry." (Her parents were first cousins and there had been several cousin marriages in the immediate family.)

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• FindaGrave Memorial ID: 47297403
• Name: Carrie McLaren
• Occupation: School Teacher
• _UID: 45A96E0974CC4F37A8BF772A4A44A3F15529

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Died:
Caroline Catherine "Carrie" McLaren, third daughter of David McLaren and Margaret McLaren, was born March 30, 1877 at the family home in Drummond Township, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada. Carrie was a school teacher in Lanark and remained single throughout her long life.

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• FindaGrave Memorial ID: 47298478
• _UID: E855EF782C154801B4EC61C9F899F3FE7A4B

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Died:
Gertrude Isobel McLaren was the fourth daughter of David McLaren and Margaret McLaren, born September 8, 1882 at the family home in Drummond Township, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada. On April 21, 1901 she died there, of pneumonia. Her headstone, obituary and death record all state that she was 19 years old, though September of 1901 would have been her 19th birthday.

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• FindaGrave Memorial ID: 46980651
• Name: Margaret McLaren
• _UID: F29C5B14739C40D8BC716069C0D5FC5D088A

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Died:
Margaret "Maggie" May McLaren, youngest daughter of David McLaren and Margaret McLaren, born September 8, 1883 in Drummond Township, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada, residing in the family home, died July 5, 1901 at age 17. Her sister Gertrude had died in April, 2 1/2 months prior.

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• FindaGrave Memorial ID: 47248711
• _UID: 0BED5C471A1C416CA00C8F9F34F6908A9C1D

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Died:
Wilfred McLaren was born with his twin brother Edwin Pierson McLaren on April 10, 1886 at the family home in Drummond Township, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada. They were the last of nine children born to David McLaren and Margaret McLaren. Wilfred lived his entire life on the family farm in Drummond.

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• FindaGrave Memorial ID: 47249224
• _UID: 98655BDD7C4C47BFB7507068D5723EB41B99

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Died:
Edwin Pierson "Peen" McLaren was born with his twin brother Wilfred McLaren on April 10, 1886 at the family home in Drummond Township, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada. They were the last of nine children born to David McLaren and Margaret McLaren. Originally called by his middle name, he couldn't pronounce "Pierson" as a child and his best attempt became his moniker "Peen." As a young man he worked as a cheese maker and in the woolen mills of Lanark until he and his brothers took over the family farm. In October of 1927, at age 41, he married Amy Stewart Jamieson and they raised four children. One son, Ian Stirling, died at eight years of age.

Family/Spouse: Amy Stewart Jamieson. Amy (daughter of James Jamieson and Sarah Ann Stewart) was born on 29 Feb 1896 in Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; died in 1970 in Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; was buried in Lanark Village Cemetery, Lanark, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• FindaGrave Memorial ID: 109546848
• _UID: 26B55176F6B7455AAFED808B91AC8B89E639

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• FindaGrave Memorial ID: 84337775
• _UID: 6BBCA5D4D5D7440FAC4DA239D21AFF71CF4F

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• FindaGrave Memorial ID: 84337537
• _UID: 411094D3EF8C4DFD8C44907FEB9E4FA4D8CD
• Census: 1916, McLeod, Alberta, Canada; Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta
• Occupation: 1916, McLeod, Alberta, Canada; Manager, Domestic Express
• Census: 1921, Cranbrook, East Kootenay District, British Columbia, Canada; Canada
• Occupation: 1921, Cranbrook, East Kootenay District, British Columbia, Canada; Agent, Domestic Express

Notes:

(Research):Myrvin Duncan McLaren, son of Duncan McDonald McLaren and Margaret Bowes, was born July 28, 1890. Myrvin's mother died shortly after he was born and his father died in 1894. When his father died Myrvin and his older brother John Peter were place under the guardianship of their uncle John McLaren in Drummond Township. Myrvin married Maggie Eda Robertson on April 25, 1917

Pedigree submitted familysearch.org.

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Census:
19th Street.

Census:
Hanson Ave. Cranbrook

Died:
Name:?tab?John Peter McLaren
Gender:?tab?Male
Birth Date:?tab?31 Dec 1886
Birth Place:?tab?Canada
Death Date:?tab?24 Mar 1952
Death Place:?tab?Tehama
Mother's Maiden Name:?tab?Boers
Father's Surname: McLaren
Source Citation
Date: 1952-03-24
Source Information
Ancestry.com. California, Death Index, 1940-1997 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2000.
Original data: State of California. California Death Index, 1940-1997. Sacramento, CA, USA: State of California Department of Health Services, Center for Health Statistics.

John married Louisa Bell Mallory in 1912. Louisa (daughter of James "Warren" Mallory and Ruth "Augusta" Howard) was born on 15 Feb 1887 in Yonge & Escott Twp, Leeds, Ontario, Canada; died on 10 Nov 1971 in Surrey, Greater Vancouver Regional District, British Columbia, Canada; was buried in Nelson Memorial Park, Nelson, Central Kootenay Regional District, British Columbia, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• FindaGrave Memorial ID: 47422965
• Name: Marvin
• _UID: AB3180F907A9402BB311E2EBE0345F8AFE24
• Census: 1911, Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Canada

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Census:
Myrvin is a boarder with Richard E. Haley 27, a cheese maker, Ruby Haley 24 and Muriel Haley 1, and Sutton Haley 7 mos. He is listed as a "helper"

Died:
Myrvin Duncan McLaren, son of Duncan McDonald McLaren and Margaret Bowes, was born July 28, 1890. Myrvin's mother died shortly after he was born and his father died in 1894. When his father died Myrvin and his older brother John Peter were place under the guardianship of their uncle John McLaren in Drummond Township. Myrvin married Maggie Eda Robertson on April 25, 1917.

Mervin married Eva Margaret "Maggie" Robertson on 25 Apr 1917 in Drummond Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada. Eva (daughter of William Robertson and Agnes McEwen Baird) was born on 5 Dec 1888 in Middleville, Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; died on 1 Apr 1958 in Perth, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; was buried in Lanark Village Cemetery, Lanark, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]