(1805-28 March 1889), farmer. His name is given on his gravestone in St. Columba cemetery, Kirk Hill, as Duncan Fisk McMillan. He was known also variously as Duncan McMillan (Fisk) and Duncan (Fisk) McMillan and Duncan “Fisk” McMillan. He appears never to have been known as The Fisk. Born presumably in GC. Parents: Donald (The War) McMillan and his wife, who emigrated to Canada in 1802 and settled on Lot 10, in the 8th Concession of Kenyon Township. John C. McMillan, in his manuscript history of GC dated May 1889, states that Duncan McMillan “who died two months ago” took the enemy commander Col. Von Schoultz prisoner at the Battle of the Windmill near Prescott in 1838. The Cornwall Standard-Freeholder in 1945, citing a newspaper notice of 1889 on Duncan McMillan’s death, reported that at the Battle of the Windmill he “was the first man to fire on the rebels.”

     Duncan McMillan was married to Christena Fraser (Mrs Morrison), a widow with three daughters. (five children) Duncan McMillan farmed on Lot 12 in the 8th Concession of Kenyon, at Fisk Corners, in GC. For the N1/2 of this lot he received the patent on 24 Feb. 1859, but not many weeks later he and his wife sold a part of this holding.

     The name Fisk Corners (the name is variously spelled) has long been applied to the crossroads where County Road 24, running along the southern edge of the 9th Concession of Kenyon, intersects the road which runs between Lots 12 and 13. The name is said to have arisen because someone in that neighbourhood could “swim like a fish” and so the name Fish Corners was used and it became, by an easy shift in pronunciation, Fisk Corners. His clansman Harold MacMillan (Hawkesbury) states that Duncan had a splendid large beard, the Gaelic of which is feusag (pron. as physic.) The Fisk name was attached not only to the subject of the present entry but to other members of his family to distinguish them from the many other Glengarry MacMillans. Christina Ann MacMillan, who was one of the pioneers of Plenty, Sask., was a MacMillan of the Fisk group, and noted in 1973 that the name “followed us” to the West; she herself married one of the “Deacon” McMillans. (See entry for Angus McMillan of Saskatoon) The year after the subject of the present entry died, another Duncan McMillan (Fisk) of Kenyon was injured in a fight at Campeau’s hotel, Quigley’s Corners, GC. (Glengarrian 17 Jan. 1890)

Cornwall Freeholder 29 March 1889, cited DTL Standard Freeholder 31 March 1945 * manuscript history: see entry for John C. McMillan * private information * 12-8th Kenyon: Registry Office abstract index books, now at Williamstown; Belden Atlas 43 (farm map of Kenyon)