(died 3 April 1823, aged 71), associate in emigration project. (Allan “Glenpean” McMillan, Allan McMillan of Glenpean, himself often called simply “Glenpean”) Born in Scotland. Parents: Ewen McMillan, tacksman of Glenpean, and and his wife, a Cameron. Allan accompanied his first cousin Archibald McMillan to Canada in 1802 in the emigration group Archibald organized and headed. He arrived in GC with other emigrants of this group in the fall of 1802. He is often remembered as one of the leaders of the 1802 emigration group, and is even sometimes spoken of as if he were a full partner with Archibald in the emigration project. More correctly, he seems simply to have been a man of prominence connected with Archibald in the emigration project. In any case, as a man of good family connections and presumably habits of leadership, he was doubtless involved in helping the settlers find their new homes in GC and Stormont. He lived in Canada first on a farm belonging to Sir John Johnson in GC, then at Lachine, Que., and appears also to have lived in Finch Township, where many of the 1802 emigrants settled. He died at Lancaster, GC. He is buried in St. Andrew’s cemetery, Williamstown. This cemetery has an Ontario government plaque which commemorates the McMillan Emigration of 1802 and includes Allan’s name along with that of his above-mentioned cousin Archibald. A portrait of Allan McMillan copied from a photograph of a lost painting is printed full-page size in the Lochaber Emigrants book of 1994. Allan McMillan was the brother of Alexander McMillan, who was a leader of emigrants to CG. Allan McMillan is a celebrated but shadowy figure in GC history; the details of his life being poorly known. Allan McMillan was married in 1774 to Margaret Cameron. (nine children) They were the parents of James McMillan the fur trader.

McLean 139, 141, 144 * Fleming * Somerled MacMillan, The Emigration of Lochaber MacMillans to Canada in 1802 (1958) * Somerled MacMillan, Bygone Lochaber Historical and Traditional (1971) * Fraser, Gravestones, I, 164 * Whyte, i, 41, 298