(1791-19 July 1886), pioneer. (Major Kenneth MacKenzie) (date of birth is from gravestone; date of birth 1790 and age at death 96 & 99 also found) Born in Scotland. Alexander Mackenzie, the journalist, who visited him at his GC home in 1879, reported that he was a native of Contin, Rossshire, but grew up in Lochbroom, and that he had been a soldier in the British Army at the time of Napoleon’s imprisonment in Elba, and was very poor at the time he emigrated to Canada. MacKenzie came to Canada 1818. He settled at Glen Sandfield, GC, with Col. Valentine Chisholm and Daniel McDonald (Baker). Before settling in GC, he lived for some time with his uncle Hon. Roderick Mackenzie of Terrebonne, Que., a retired fur trader who was a first cousin of Sir Alexander Mackenzie. Kenneth MacKenzie served in the 3rd Regiment of the GC militia in the 1837 Rebellion, being at that time a captain. By occupation, he was a farmer. He died at Glen Sandfield. Presbyterian, and Presbyterian elder. He was married, probably in Lochiel Township, 10 Oct. 1825, to Catherine Fraser (1806-9 Oct. 1868). He was the grandfather of Mrs Justenia C. Sears, and a close relative, perhaps great-grandfather, of Major Henry J. MACRIMMON and Mrs C. A. Cattanach.
Ottawa Daily Free Press 21 July 1886 (death notice), Cornwall Freeholder 23 July 1886 cited DTL Standard Freeholder 22 July 1944 * his gravestone, St. Columba Cemetery, Kirk Hill * MacMillan diary under dates stated above for his death, and wife’s death; gravestone for Mrs MacKenzie states, incorrectly, 1869 * St. Columba CR: index * the life of Hon. Roderick Mackenzie is in Wallace, MDict, and Dictionary of Canadian Biography, VII, 565-567 * Alexander Mackenzie in The Celtic Magazine, V(1880) 157 * Pringle 274 * death of his son Henry, Glengarry Times 15 April 1882 * note on history of the family, Ken McKenna’s column, Glengarry News 17 April 1996