(fl. 20th century), civil servant. (Alex MacLaren) In WWII he was director of the Ontario Farm Service Force, which arranged to have school children do volunteer work on farms, where labour, at a time when so many men were in the armed services, was often in short supply. The GC writer Sandy Fraser (J. E. McIntosh of Breadalbane) described him as “My friend, Alex McLaren, the Director o’ the Ontario Farm Service Force, who I ken pretty weel and who went to the same school as mysel’ in his day,…”

Mentioned as holder of the Farm Service position, Standard Freeholder 20 June 1941, 27 July 1942, 10 April 1944 (features in editorial on need for farm labour) * Sandy Fraser column in Farmer's Advocate 24 May 1945