(31 July 1900-19 July 1971), scientist. (Norman A. MacRae, N. A. MacRae, Norman MacRae) Born in the Dunvegan area, GC, perhaps at Stewarts Glen. Parents: Murdoch John MacRae (d. 1948) and his wife Nora (Norah) Alice MacLeod (d. 1944). Early in life, he was a schoolteacher at Dunvegan and (1925-1926) principal of Maxville Public School. Degrees: B. A. (Queen’s University, 1928), M. Sc. (McGill, 1930), Ph. D. (University of California, 1939). He was assistant in Botany and Plant Pathology at Macdonald College, 1928-1930; was tobacco specialist with the Tobacco Division, Dominion Dept. of Agriculture, 1930-1941; was on loan to the Wartime Prices and Trade Board, 1941-1946; and was chief, Tobacco Division, Experimental Farms Service, Dominion Dept. of Agriculture, Central Experimental Farm, Ottawa, from 1947. At several international scientific congresses he was a Canadian delegate. He was the author of a number of booklets and articles on tobacco cultivation, including Tobacco Growing in Canada (Ottawa, 1935, 1938, 45 pp.) and “Canadian Tobacco, Production and Consumption” (Commercial Intelligence Journal, 1946, 16 pp.), and (with a co-author) Varietal Studies of Flue-Cured, Burley and Dark Tobaccos (Ottawa, 1935, 61 pp.). From 1965 he was retired. (Glengarry News 27 May 1965) He died in an Ottawa hospital and is buried at Pinecrest Cemetery, Ottawa. At Russell, Ont., 7 July 1934, he was married to Gladys Florence Barrington (d. 20 Nov. 1980) (name also found as Florence Gladys Barrington). (one child, adopted daughter) He was a Presbyterian and a Presbyterian elder. His sister was married to Donald S. Ferguson.

     For another plant scientist, see Donald John MacLeod.

Tableau (Dept. of Agriculture research branch newspaper) Sept. 1971 (with portrait) * private information * Who’s Who in the Agricultural Institute of Canada (1948) 126 * The Canadian Who’s Who, VIII: 1958-1960, p. 703 * Maxville (1991) 234 * information from Canadian Agriculture Library, Ottawa * Ella S. G. Minter, ed., Publications of the Canada Department of Agriculture 1867-1959 (Ottawa, 1963): index * Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Glengarry News 22 Sept. 1933 * to Berkeley, Calif., to study for year, GN 30 Aug. 1935 * father dies, Standard Freeholder 4 Jan. 1949 * photograph, GN 4 Oct. 2000, of Grade 4, Maxville Public School, Nov. 1925, with principal Norman MacRae * obtains teaching certification from Normal School, Ottawa, GN 16 July 1920 * degrees, GN 11 May 1928, 30 May 1930, Standard Freeholder 5 June 1939, GN 9 June 1939