(died 21 Feb. 1918, at ages given as both 70 and 74), “Prospector & Miner,” in the words used on his death certificate. Born in GC. His father, Kenneth McLennan, was born in Scotland. Alexander led, during some half a century, an adventurous career in mining and prospecting in the Cariboo, and elsewhere in B. C., and in the Yukon. A resident of Vancouver at the end of his life, he died at the Vancouver General Hospital. “Like many another western pioneer, deceased had never married.” Part of his funeral service was in Gaelic, in tribute to McLennan having been able to speak the language. At the time of his death, the survivors included his sister, Mrs Flora Cameron, of Dunvegan. He was one of three men of Cariboo or Yukon connections called Alexander McLennan who appear in the present dictionary. We may guess, on the somewhat slight basis of the aforementioned Dunvegan connection, that of the three he was most likely to have been the Alex McLennan who in 1902 attended the lavishly and exuberantly celebrated marriage in the Yukon of Neil Stewart, a Dunvegan man. Col. Donald McGregor, who praised McLennan at the time of the latter’s death, was a friend who had had associations with McLennan in mining.

Glengarry News 15 March 1918 (QF) based on Vancouver Sun of 23 Feb.: evocative, with eloquent passages, but does not give exact data for a narrative of his career * B. C. death certificate, Reg. No. 1918-09-152397 * Neil Stewart wedding: GN 15 Aug. 1902, repr. MacGillivray & Ross 137-141