(19 June 1907-7 Feb. 1990), cheesemaker. (Harvey MacMillan) Born at Huntingdon, Que. Parents: George A. MacMillan and his wife Myrtle Reid. George MacMillan, the father of the subject of this sketch, was an employee at one time of D. M. Macpherson, and was a cheesemaker at Glen Sandfield and in the Martintown area and at Apple Hill, and was a provincial dairy instructor 1921-1950. There is an interesting long letter, vivid and with important data, by him in the Cornwall Standard of 20 Aug. 1931 on the reasons for poor quality cheese. George MacMillan’s brother, J. Barclay MacMillan, was for some forty years principal of the Huntingdon Academy. Harvey MacMillan, the subject of the present sketch, attended primary school at Apple Hill and Martintown, and was owner and cheesemaker at the King’s Road Cheese Factory, near Martintown, from 1927 to 1 July 1971. His brother Alexander owned the Burn Brae Cheese Factory at Martintown from 1936 till 1971, the two brothers selling their factories to Kraft at the same time. Harvey MacMillan died at Maxville Manor. Presbyterian. Burial was at the North Branch cemetery near Martintown. He was married at Martintown on 30 August 1941 to Helen McDermid. She died at Glengarry Memorial Hospital, 17 Jan. 2003, in her 93rd year. Harvey MacMillan was one of the last surviving of the major figures of the GC cheese industry, which was once so important in GC, and he was a recognized authority on its history. He was among the contributors of information on the cheese industry for the MacGillivray and Ross history of GC and to Marilyn Light’s 1977 article in Glengarry Life. He was one of six brothers, all of whom were active, at some stage of their lives, in the cheese business.

Glengarry News 7 March 1990 * private information * “Cheese Factories in Martintown Area Sold to Kraft and Are Closed,” clipping, evidently from GN summer 1971 (anon. but well informed, much history of Martintown area cheese factories) * Fraser (1959) 279 * Rhodes Grant, ii, 62 * Apple Hill (1982) 43 (with portrait) * Campbell (1986), 392-393 (with portrait) * Marilyn H. S. Light, “’In Living Memory’,” on Charlottenburgh Township cheese factories, Glengarry Life 1977 * MacGillivray & Ross 398 * Rutley * obituary of his wife, GN 22 Jan. 2003 * obituary of his brother William MacMillan, a cheesemaker at the King’s Road and Apple Hill cheese factories, GN 2 Aug. 2000