(2 Dec. 1838-12 Dec. 1913), pioneer. Born in GC. Parents: John McGillivray and his wife Catherine Urquhart. He was educated in the GC public schools and in New York. “In 1860 he came West and during four years of the gold excitement in British Columbia, operated a pack train on the Cariboo road” carrying goods to the mines. He was involved in telegraph line-building, stock-raising and storekeeping; farmed at Sumas, about fifty miles east of Vancouver in the Fraser Valley; was a member of the British Columbia Legislative Assembly from 1878 to 1882 for the electoral district of New Westminster; was a councillor and reeve; and at Chilliwack, B. C., where he resided from 1903, was a police magistrate. Twice married, he had ten children; the name of his first wife was Julia A. Andrews. He was a Mason and an Orangeman. He has to be distinguished from another Ontario-born British Columbian who had the same name but was not a Glengarrian, Donald McGillivray (1857-1900), an eminent engineer and contractor who has an entry in the Dictionary of Canadian Biography.

VKHR 2 Jan. 1914 (QF) *St. Columba CR, 69 * biog. in Parker (both 1911, 1912) * Rattray, IV, 1121 * There is a striking life of his namesake Donald McGillivray (1857-1900) in British Columbia from the Earliest Times to the Present, Vol. IV: Biographical (1914) 914-916