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Maclellan, William Edward
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Dates of existence
1850-1927
History
William Edward Maclellan was a lawyer, writer, newspaper editor, and Post Office inspector. Born in 1850 in Durham, Nova Scotia, he was educated at Pictou Academy, Dalhousie College and Dalhousie University. After a brief stint working as a lawyer in Pictou, he moved to Winnipeg and was employed as an editorial writer and managing editor for The Manitoba Free Press. After returning to Nova Scotia, from 1900-1905 he was editor-in-chief of the Morning Chronicle and Halifax Daily Echo, then was appointed as Post Office Inspector for the Nova Scotia division. He served as chair of the Nova Scotia Government Commission on French language in common schools (1902), chair of the Commission on University Education in Nova Scotia (1912), and was a member of the Nova Scotia Legislative Library Commission. He was married to Margaret Jane Mackenzie, the first woman to receive a First Class Teaching license in Nova Scotia, with whom he had two sons: Robert William and Edward Kirkpatrick.
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History of Nova Scotia: Biographical Sketches of Representative Citizens and Genealogical Records of the Old Families. VOLUME III. A.W. Bowen & Co., 1916.