(died 1809), fur trader. Born in the parish of Deurinish, Scotland. He was in the service of the North West Company before 1787, and served at places in the Canadian West which included the Peace River district, becoming a partner of the company in 1795. Having left the company about 1802, he died in Montreal, where he had lived in retirement. So far as is known, he did not live in GC at any time, but he had several connections with the county. His Métis daughter, Mrs Ann McLeod McKenzie, was raised with the family of the Rev. John Bethune at Williamstown. His natural son Alexander, by Mary McGillis (perhaps not the mother of Ann), was married in 1825 to Mary Chisholm of Charlottenburgh Township, and was a schoolteacher, and his daughter Margaret, by the same mother, married a Williamstown area farmer, Duncan McIntyre. McLeod loaned Rev. John Bethune money to extend the latter’s house at Williamstown (now known as the Bethune-Thompson House) and Bethune acted as an executor of McLeod’s estate. McLeod doubtless was known to the retired fur traders of the NWC who lived in Glengarry and Stormont counties.
Wallace 480: Wallace states that he got “much” of his information from Farquhar D. McLennan; McLeod has no life in the Dictionary of Canadian Biography * MDict * David G. Anderson, “Indian Wives of the Glengarry Nor’Westers,” Glengarry Life 1993 p. 7