(10 March 1864-24 Jan. 1959), political figure. (Jim McNaughton, James A. McNaughton) Born in GC at the Three Bridges area south of Dunvegan, probably on his parents’ farm on Lot 29 in the 7th Concession of Kenyon Twp. Parents: Alexander McNaughton and his wife Catherine Kennedy. Education: local, in GC. He is reported to have been living at Rat Portage (Kenora) in 1887, and at Killarney, Man., in 1888. In 1909 he moved to Carmangay, Alberta, the home of his years in public life, where he lived till 1944 or later. At Carmangay, he operated a store. He was elected to the Alberta legislature for the constituency of Little Bow in 1913 as a Liberal. The Glengarry News at this time welcomed a Calgary press report on the meeting of two members of the Alberta legislature who had been neighbours in GC, John Arthur McColl and James McNaughton. (Glengarry News 26 Sept. 1913 ) McNaughton was re-elected in 1917, but did not run in the 1921 election. After his period as MLA, he was town clerk of Carmangay till he retired in 1944; he had also been the first mayor of Carmangay, and was secretary-treasurer of the hospital there for 17 years. He was married on 1 July 1896 to Sarah Campbell of Lindsay, Ont. She died in 1956. He and his wife lived in retirement at Bedford, N. S., where they had a daughter residing. He died at his daughter’s home in Bedford, and is buried in Bedford. (two children) At the time of his death he had been an active member of the Masonic Order for nearly three-quarters of a century, having first become a member of a lodge at Plantagenet, Ont., in 1885. He was a member of the first Masonic lodge formed in Maxville in 1887.

Campbell (1986), 84-88 (with portrait) * Canadian Parliamentary Guide, 1914, 1918 * death certificate, province of Nova Scotia * Maxville (1991) 415 * Glenbow Archives: obituary, Lethbridge Herald, from a date in Jan. 1959, & two other press clippings * Bridging the Years: Carmangay and District (1968) 33 * Sinclair 9 * Ross & Fraser McNaughtons, II, 747-748