(23 April 1861-17 Feb. 1963), pioneer. (John D. MacGillivray) Born at Kirk Hill, GC, on Lot 25, 7th Concession of Lochiel Township. Parents: John MacGillivray and his wife Mary MacGillivray. John Darroch settled at Madison, South Dakota, in 1880. By 1901, he was living at Ponoka, Alta. He operated a feed and furniture store at Ponoka, also an undertaking establishment, and in 1904, he became the first mayor of Ponoka. After his furniture store in Ponoka burned about 1906, he had a furniture business at Stettler, Alta., and a real estate business at Ponoka. He was a farmer at New Brigden, Alta., from 1911 to 1933, and at Fawcett, Alta., for some years after 1933 till he retired. In retirement, he lived in the hamlet of Fawcett and later at Edmonton. He was married in 1893 to another MacGillivray from Kirk Hill, whose name was probably Etta. (ten children, eight surviving him) She was the sister of Donald John MacGillivray, and died in 1954. John D. MacGillivray received considerable notice in his last years as a centenarian and a pioneer of the West. He died in hospital in Edmonton. He and his wife are buried at Fawcett. In his early years he was a river logman on the Mississippi River in Wisconsin.

Glengarry News 21 Feb. 1963, Edmonton Journal 19 Feb. 1963 (with portrait) * celebration of 100th, 101st birthdays, Edmonton Journal 22 April 1961, 24 April 1962 (with portrait), Glengarry News 26 April 1962 * St. Columba CR, 112 * Marjory McGillivray Waters, Ne’er Forgot Shall Be: a Genealogy of Clan McGillivray (1980) 233 * Robert McGillivray and George B. Macgillivray, A History of the Clan MacGillivray (1973) 117 (brief biog. sketch) * Ponoka Panorama (1973) 1, 19-20, illustr. 456 ff. * Hardships and Happiness: Fawcett and Surrounding Districts (1981) 187-190 (with portraits) * From Buffalo Chips to Natural Gas: New Brigden (1984) 291-293