(?-?), emigration leader. (dates of birth c. 1756, c. 1760, dates of death 1823, c.1840 have been found) (Alexander McMillan of Glenpean) Born in Scotland. Parents: Ewen McMillan, tacksman of Glenpean, near Loch Arkaig, and his wife, a Cameron. Alexander McMillan served in the American Revolutionary War as a lieutenant in a British military unit known as DeLancey’s Brigade, but returned to Britain after the war. He brought a group of settlers with him when he emigrated from Britain to Canada in 1792. Marianne McLean believes that McMillan’s emigration group was a joint venture with that headed by Alexander Macdonell of Greenfield. Within a year of their arrival in Canada, members of Alexander McMillan’s emigration group were granted land in GC, in what is now Lochiel Township (at that time still the northern part of Lancaster Township). Alexander McMillan was a settler in Cornwall Township, but he is also said to have lived at some period in Williamstown and Lancaster. He was a lieutenant in the Royal Canadian Volunteer Regiment of Foot, which after lasting for a few years was disbanded in 1802. During the War of 1812, he was a lt.-col. in the militia, and took part in a successful raid on an American post in New York State near Cornwall. He was a J P. Alexander McMillan was the brother of Allan McMillan, who also took a hand in organized emigration to CG. Alexander McMillan married (1)—, and (2) (Marcella?), whose father was perhaps the Alexander Macdonell of Greenfield already mentioned, and had children. Alexander McMillan is said to have acquired extensive land grants in various places; his holdings included two lots in Lochiel Township, and his son lived on one of these Lochiel grants.

McLean: index * Fleming * Somerled MacMillan, The Emigration of Lochaber MacMillans to Canada in 1802 (1958) * Somerled MacMillan, Bygone Lochaber Historical and Traditional (1971) * Harkness: index * Senior 103-104 * Whyte, i, 297 * Lochiel lots: Butternuts and Maple Sugar 222, 276-277