(4 Jan. 1881-1 Aug. 1947), prospector. Born on Lot 29, 9th Concession of Lancaster Township, GC. Parents: Angus R. McKinnon and his wife Elizabeth McDonald. “Nearly fifty years ago he left Glengarry to follow a prospecting trail which took him from Mexico to Canada’s northwest.” Places where he worked as a prospector and miner included Arizona, British Columbia, Northern Ontario and Northern Quebec. On 2 July 1928, in St. Patrick’s Church, Montreal, he was married to Agnes Chesley-Harrison. He died in Youville Hospital, Rouyn, Que. (children: an adopted daughter) The funeral Mass and burial were in Alexandria, where he was buried in St. Finnan’s cemetery. McKinnon was “was one of the earliest prospectors to go into the Rouyn area. His cabin there was a home to many of the young men who later went north from Glengarry, and his ready assistance was a by-word among mining men, not alone those from his native county.”

Glengarry News 8 Aug. 1947 (QF) * St. Finnan’s CRNI, III, 620 * holidays with his mother, GN 11 Jan. 1924