(c. 1793-1870), pioneer. Born in Invernessshire, Scotland. Parents: Malcolm McGillivray and his wife Christie McCoy or MacCoy (or McCay or McKay). He came to GC as a child with his parents. On 28 Dec. 1815 he was married to Mary McDonell or MacDonald. (eight or more children) He and his wife lived in GC, Montreal and Bytown (during the period of the construction of the Rideau Canal), before settling at Fitzroy Harbour, on the Ottawa River, about 1831. He is variously described as Capt. McGillivray and a retired army officer and as retired from the field train. He may have been the Angus McGillivray who was clerk of stores for Col. By during the construction of the Rideau Canal. At Fitzroy Harbour he was a tavern keeper and farmer. He was married in Trinity Anglican Church, Cornwall, but at least two of the children were baptized at St. Raphael’s (1817, 1818), and in the 1851 census he is described as belonging to the Church of Scotland.
There was also an Angus McGillivray, perhaps different from the man or men already discussed, who was a lieut. in the 3rd Regiment, GC militia, in 1839, and who was a captain in the same regiment, 1844.
This entry is much indebted to the admirable documentary research of Mrs Mary Beaton, Mrs Headrick, Mrs Pat Reitsma and Mrs Margaret Pearson, which has very kindly been communicated to me * biog. sketch in Fitzroy Historical Society, Beyond Our Memory (1990?) 173 * the present author’s enquiries in NAC records relating to Col. By’s canal work have yielded little on Angus McGillivray, clerk of stores * McGillivray of 3rd Regiment: Pringle 274; NAC, British Military and Naval Records, RG 8, Vol. 221, Reel C-2787