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| <tab>When the Scottish journalist Alexander Mackenzie during his tour of 1879 was entertained by some 45 gentlemen “as the guest of the Highlanders of Alexandria” to a supper in that town, Dr McMillan, who earlier presided at one of Mackenzie’s lectures, “added much to our entertainment by his singing in fine voice and spirit some excellent Gaelic songs.” The Glen Sandfield columnist in the //Glengarrian// of 1 Aug. 1890, in a graphic account of how a little boy was injured by a mower, noted “Drs. D. D. McDonald [Donald Duncan Macdonald] and Senator McMillan were sent for,” and on arriving began the grim task of caring for the lad. When the future George V (at that time the Duke of Cornwall) stopped at Alexandria during his tour of 1901, Senator McMillan was in the delegation that met him. | <tab>When the Scottish journalist Alexander Mackenzie during his tour of 1879 was entertained by some 45 gentlemen “as the guest of the Highlanders of Alexandria” to a supper in that town, Dr McMillan, who earlier presided at one of Mackenzie’s lectures, “added much to our entertainment by his singing in fine voice and spirit some excellent Gaelic songs.” The Glen Sandfield columnist in the //Glengarrian// of 1 Aug. 1890, in a graphic account of how a little boy was injured by a mower, noted “Drs. D. D. McDonald [Donald Duncan Macdonald] and Senator McMillan were sent for,” and on arriving began the grim task of caring for the lad. When the future George V (at that time the Duke of Cornwall) stopped at Alexandria during his tour of 1901, Senator McMillan was in the delegation that met him. |
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| <tab>Business interests seem to have been minor in his career, but in the 1870s he was a representative in the GC area of the Western Loan and Saving Company, which dealt in mortgages. This is an interesting connection, given the role that moneylending played in the political careers of GC at this time; see the note in the entry for R. R. McLennan. At some stage McMillan had interests, as did so many of his GC contemporaries, in lumbering and sawmills. He is listed also in various contemporary sources as having associations of the directorate kind with several business companies. | <tab>Business interests seem to have been minor in his career, but in the 1870s he was a representative in the GC area of the Western Loan and Saving Company, which dealt in mortgages. This is an interesting connection, given the role that moneylending played in the political careers of GC at this time; see the note in the entry for [[mclennan_roderick_r|R. R. McLennan]]. At some stage McMillan had interests, as did so many of his GC contemporaries, in lumbering and sawmills. He is listed also in various contemporary sources as having associations of the directorate kind with several business companies. |
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| <tab>He was also on the Alexandria Council and the SDG Council. At a meeting in Alexandria on 15 March 1881 he was made president of the newly-founded Medical Society of the County of Glengarry. (//The Canada Lancet//, Vol. 13 p. 305) | <tab>He was also on the Alexandria Council and the SDG Council. At a meeting in Alexandria on 15 March 1881 he was made president of the newly-founded Medical Society of the County of Glengarry. (//The Canada Lancet//, Vol. 13 p. 305) |
