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About Arthur W. MacKenzie
- Arthur Whittier MacKenzie (June 15, 1898 – 1986) was an army officer and political figure in Nova Scotia, Canada.
- He represented Guysborough in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1945 to 1956 as a Liberal member. Mackenzie was born at Nine Mile River, Hants County, Nova Scotia, the son of Benjamin MacKenzie and Minnie Scott.
- In 1926, he married Alice Fisher, with whom he had a daughter.
- MacKenzie married Jean Maclean (Horton) in 1935 following the death of his first wife.
- He became step-father to her son, and the couple went on to have another son.
- After being widowed a second time, MacKenzie married Geneve Forbes (Glennie), a widow with two children. MacKenzie joined the Army during World War I while still a minor.
- (See "Old Enough to Fight: Canada's Boy Soldiers During the First World War" By Dan Black and John Boileau).
- He also served in World War II and became a Lieutenant-Colonel. After the war MacKenzie served in the province's Executive Council as Minister of Agriculture and Minister of Lands and Forests from 1945-1954, and Minister of Highways and Public Works from 1954-1956.
- He was an unsuccessful candidate for a seat in the provincial assembly in 1956.
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