(died 21 May 1876, aged 65), lawyer, registrar. (Alexander McKenzie, A. M. McKenzie) He had a family connection with Capt. Alexander McKenzie and his wife Ann McLeod (see entry for Ann McLeod McKenzie), but given the uncertainty of the relevant information we cannot go so far as to assert that both of them were his parents. He studied law in the office of John Sandfield Macdonald, where he was also an employee, and throughout much of his working life he was a political associate and adviser to Macdonald. Called to the bar, 1855, McKenzie had a law practice in Alexandria by 1857, and is said to have been the first lawyer to practice in Alexandria. At the ceremony of laying the cornerstone of the Alexandria Presbyterian church in 1861, McKenzie was one of the speakers.

He became registrar of deeds for GC succeeding Duncan Macdonell (Greenfield), who died in 1864. Harkness records, with a note of surprise, that though McKenzie was reported to have been successful as a lawyer, he accepted the “sinecure” of the registrarship. Altogether, McKenzie served as registrar 1865 to 1876. He died at Alexandria. He was married to Janet Margilla McDonell, who was probably the daughter of his predecessor as registrar, Duncan Macdonell, and the aunt, therefore, of John A. Macdonell the historian. She died at Alexandria on 12 Aug. 1872, aged 46. There is an anecdote about McKenzie in J. Lockie Wilson’s Wilson’s typescript recollections of an Alexandria boyhood (the elder Wilson refused to accept McKenzie’s allegations about young Wilson’s bad behaviour). Angus Mcdonald succeeded McKenzie as registrar. Harkness 434 * Pringle 316 * MacMillan diary: deaths of McKenzie and wife on dates stated in text above * cornerstone: The Ecclesiastical and Missionary Record, for the Canada Presbyterian Church, Sept. 1861 p. 167 * Fraser, Gravestones, I, 155-156 * Lovell 1857 378 * Hodgins: index