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About John McLennan
- John McLennan (February 26, 1821 – December 18, 1893) was an Ontario businessman and political figure.
- He represented Glengarry as a Liberal-Conservative member of the House of Commons of Canada from 1879 to 1882. He was born in Williamstown in Upper Canada in 1821, the son of a Scottish immigrant.
- He served as president of the Montreal Board of Trade and vice-president of the Merchants' Bank of Canada.
- With his brother Hugh, he established a firm involved in shipping and grain processing.
- McLennan lived at Lancaster.
- He died in Montreal in 1893, and is buried on Mont Royal. Five years after his death in 1898, his widow Charlotte Adelaide (Mair) McLennan established a church and parish hall in his memory.
- Located on part of McLennan's former Ridgewood estate, St.
- John the Evangelist Anglican Church remains open to this day, surrounded by the Glengarry Campground of the St.
- Lawrence Parks Commission in South Glengarry, Ontario.
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