John Stewart McLennan explained

Honorific Prefix:The Honourable
John Stewart McLennan
Office:Member of the Senate of Canada for Sydney, Nova Scotia division
Term Start:10 February 1916
Term End:15 September 1939
Birth Name:John Stewart McLennan
Birth Date:1853 11, df=yes
Birth Place:Montreal, Canada East
Death Place:Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Residence:Sydney, Nova Scotia
Profession:industrialist, publisher
Party:Conservative

John Stewart McLennan (5 November 1853 – 15 September 1939) was a Conservative member of the Senate of Canada. He was born in Montreal, Quebec and became an industrialist and publisher.

The son of Hugh McLennan and Isabella Stewart, he was educated at the High School of Montreal, McGill University, and Concordia, and moved to Sydney, Nova Scotia. In 1904, he bought the Sydney Post (later the Post-Record). McLennan was married twice: to Louise Bradley in 1881 and to Grace Henoys Tytus in 1915. He was a director of Dominion Iron and Steel Company and the Dominion Coal Company. McLennan was the author of Louisbourg, from its foundation to its fall, 1713-1758, https://books.google.com/books?id=pgu6reH9yjQC&pg=PA12 first published in 1918.[1]

He was appointed to the Senate on 10 February 1916 for the Sydney, Nova Scotia division following nomination by Prime Minister Robert Borden. McLennan remained a Senator until his death on 15 September 1939.

References

  1. Book: Johnson, J.K. . The Canadian Directory of Parliament 1867-1967 . 1968 . Public Archives of Canada.

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