(fl. 1840s ), merchant. In 1841, Neil McIntosh organized a group of 80 to 100 Glengarry men to travel in cutters and sleighs to Terrebonne County in Quebec to support Dr Michael McCulloch in his election contest against L.-H. La Fontaine. In fact, the Glengarrians did not quite reach the place of polling, having turned back when they learned that the election had been concluded. The irregularities in the Quebec elections were investigated by the assembly, and Neil McIntosh’s testimony is included in the report of the investigation, which was published in the Journal of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada, 1843. He described himself in this testimony as a “Merchant,” resident in Montreal, but said he was a voter in GC. Lovell’s Montreal City Directory for 1842/43 lists Neil Macintosh as a grocer. Presumably, also, he is the N. Macintosh who appears, at a different Montreal address, as a wholesale grocer in Lovell’s Montreal City Directory for 1848.

     Given that our subject was a GC voter, we may guess he lived in GC before moving on to the greater opportunities of Montreal. He may or may not have been (1) Capt. Neil McIntosh, an early Martintown store, ashery and tannery proprietor, (two) Neil McIntosh, of Charlottenburgh Township, who obtained a 100-acre land grant in Alfred Township, Prescott County, 1834, (3) Neil McIntosh, who was one of the people whose financial claims against David Thompson pushed that explorer into bankruptcy or near bankruptcy in 1836, or (4) the man mentioned in a newspaper advertisement (Cornwall Constitutional, 29 May 1851) which listed various properties in GC under the heading, “Valuable Properties for Sale or Exchange for Wild lands in Canada West,” with application to be made to “Neil MacIntosh, Land Agent, Toronto,” or to John Sandfield Macdonald’s office in Cornwall. It may be noted in connection with the preceding list that we find one or more Neil McIntoshes (1808, 1818) among the early adherents of St. Andrew’s Church, Williamstown.

MacGillivray & Ross 62-63, 684 * Journal of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada, 1843, Appendix JJ [unpaginated; esp. see the pp. which are, approx., 12, 41-42] * “may or may not”: Rhodes Grant, i, 73; Brault 341; D’Arcy Jenish’s Epic Wanderer: David Thompson and the Mapping of the Canadian West (2003) 253; Centenary 1912 85, 86