(25 Dec. 1847-14 April 1914), lawyer. (Death date 11 March 1914 also found) Born at Williamstown, GC. Parents: Dr Daniel Eugene McIntyre and his wife Ann Fraser. He attended Cornwall Grammar School and McGill University. He studied law in Cornwall with James Bethune, and in Toronto with James Maclennan and with Edward Blake, who succeeded John Sandfield Macdonald as premier of Ontario. In 1872 he was admitted to the bar of Ontario, and in 1890 he was admitted as an advocate, Quebec province. He practised law in Cornwall till 1875, then moved to Ottawa and practised law there for the remainder of his professional career. He became a Q. C. for Ontario in 1872 and for the Dominion in 1893. To Helen Macdonald, who was the daughter of Ranald Sandfield Macdonald, he was married in 1877. (She appears in the present dictionary as Mrs Helen McIntyre.) He therefore had important family connections not only through his mother’s family, the Frasers of Fraserfield, but through his wife’s kindred. He was “a thorough imperialist” who believed “the British Empire to be the greatest instrumentality for good the world has ever seen.” (Morgan, 1898, 1912, but the words are presumably substantially McIntyre’s own)

     McIntyre was president for 11 years of the Liberal Association of Ottawa, and was president of the Young Liberal Association of Ontario. While still in Cornwall, he was elected MLA for Stormont (as a Blakeite Liberal) by a narrow margin in the Ontario general election of 1875 but the result was upset on appeal, and in the consequent by-election he was defeated, again by a narrow margin. He ran also, again unsuccessfully, as a Liberal for the Ottawa constituency in the federal general elections of 1882 and 1887, and as an Independent for the Ottawa constituency in the Ontario general election of 1894. By 1912 he was a Conservative. Presbyterian. (at least five children) Despite the Liberal connections for some years of himself and his wife, who was a noted political hostess, there appear to be only two letters from him in the Laurier papers in the National Archives, and none from Mrs McIntyre.

His life in Rose, i, 526-527, Morgan (1898) 743, Morgan (1912) 771, Appleton’s Cyclopaedia of American Biography, IV, 125, and Cochrane, IV, 509 (with portrait); both he and his father are in Rose and Appleton * Harkness 249-250 * Roderick Lewis, 52, 263 * Boss 248 * information from Canadian Club, Ottawa