(25 April 1878-1 Dec. 1949), real estate man. (Angus “Deacon” McMillan) Born in GC. His grandfather Angus (Deacon) MacMillan the diarist reports him as being born 25 April 1878 on E 1/2 of Lot 10 in the 8th Concession of Kenyon Township. Parents: Donald (Deacon) MacMillan (1846-1914), and his wife Rachel McGillivray (1852-1890), who was the niece of Archibald McNab the MP. Having completed his schooling by age 16, Angus then spent two years at home farming, before travelling in 1897 to Neepawa, Manitoba, where he farmed for six years. He settled in Saskatoon (at that time still a village) in 1903. Saskatoon was his home for the remainder of his life. For several years after coming to Saskatchewan (1903 to about 1907), he acted as a “locater” finding locations for homesteads for settlers in the Goose Lake and Kindersley country, and he was held in this way to have located the homes for about a thousand families of settlers. In 1908, he made an 850-mile circuit setting up the first polling subdivision in northwest Saskatchewan. In his latter years he was associated with the Saskatchewan Farm Loans Board. Also, he operated as a real estate man in Saskatoon over many years. He built the six-storey Glengarry building or Glengarry block, which still stands (1996) in Saskatoon, but he was (although temporarily) wiped out financially when a large portion of the building caved in as it was nearing completion and the work had to be redone (begun about 1912, the building was finally complete 1913-1914). He was married at Saskatoon in 1905 to Charlotte Johnson, of Sarnia Ont. (seven children) Their son Pilot Officer Archie McMillan was killed in France in World War II.

     One sister and six brothers of Angus settled in the Canadian West. One of these, Donald D. McMillan (15 Feb. 1886-24 Nov. 1970), was among the settlers of Plenty, Sask., an area which had one of the most remarkable concentrations of Glengarrians of any part of the Canadian West, and he was among the chief developers of the outstandingly good local history of the Plenty community published about 1968 under the title of The Land of Plenty. Donald D. McMillan was married to Christina Ann MacMillan, also of GC, one of the “Fisk” MacMillans. When Donald D. McMillan changed the subscription address of his Glengarry News on moving to Saskatoon in 1969, the editor Eugene Macdonald noted that this was the last subscription of the newspaper addressed to Plenty, whereas 40 years before there had been more than a dozen. (Glengarry News 18 Sept. 1969)

Glengarry News 9 & (repr. from Saskatoon Star-Phoenix) 16 Dec. 1949 * file of newspaper clippings and other papers on Angus McMillan kindly made available to the present author by Bruce McMillan of Saskatoon; includes obituary, NDNP but identifiably from Saskatoon Star-Phoenix, with portrait * biog. sketch in N. F. Black, The History of Saskatchewan, Vol. II (1913) 891-893; further notice in Saskatoon Phoenix Exhibition Harvest edition Aug. 1914 * GN 18 April 1947 (repr. of article on him) * The Land of Plenty (1968?) 62-65 (the McMillans Christina Ann, Donald D., Angus) * two letters (1973) to present author by Christina Ann McMillan, widow of Donald D. McMillan * obituaries of the brothers Alexander M. MacMillan, GN 4 Dec. 1969, Donald D. McMillan, GN 26 Nov. 1970, 14 Jan. 1971, & Racey D. McMillan GN 16 & 30 Jan. 1975