====== McColl, John Arthur ====== 
 (21 Feb. 1875-19 April 1933), farmer, political figure. (John McColl, John A. McColl) Born near Maxville, GC, presumably on his parents’ farm, which was on Lots 13 & 14, of the 18th Concession of Indian Lands. Parents: Neil McColl (1841-1908) and his wife Annie McDougall (1847-1929). Two of John Arthur McColl’s brothers served in South Africa in the South African War, and another arrived in South Africa after the war had ended; and four of his brothers served in the First World War, in which three of them, Douglas Chalmers (1879-1915), a lieutenant, Edmund Neil (1881-1916), a sergeant, and Lyman Clark (1890-1916), a lieutenant, were killed. John McColl was educated at Maxville Public School. By one account, John McColl bought the family farm from his parents before 1900. Later, he was a farmer at Collholme, Alberta. In 1905 John A. McColl, of Maxville, was reported to have left for the West, where he was purchasing land. (//Glengarry News// 16 June 1905) He was elected to the Alberta legislature for the Acadia constituency 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, McColl and James McNaughton. (//GN// 26 Sept. 1913 ) John A. McColl was re-elected in 1917 this time as an Independent with support from the United Farmers of Alberta, or, as other sources have it, again as a Liberal. In 1920, still an MLA, he visited the graves of his brothers Edmund and Lyman, killed in the war. (//Cornwall Freeholder// 16 Dec. 1920) His brother Mack McColl was an Alderman in Edmonton. John McColl was married on 6 Feb. 1901 to Ethel Alguire (born 1881) of Maxville. He died in Calgary, the city in which he had been residing. (six children) In 1914 and 1918, he was described as a Congregationalist. He was the uncle of the Rev. Edmund Neil McColl. For more on Glengarrians in prairie politics, see [[munroe_hugh_edwin|H. E. Munroe]].


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<fs small>//Edmonton Journal//, 19 April 1933 * parents’ gravestone, Maxville Cemetery (includes full dates for parents, sons killed in war) * //Campbell (1990)//, 595, 608-610 * //Maxville (1991) //616-618 * //Canadian Parliamentary Guide// 1914 p. 537, 1918 p. 457 * tape (with printed outline) of interview, 1961, with James A. Cameron (like McColl, an MLA for Acadia), Glenbow Museum, Calgary * Douglas McColl, of Maxville, leaves for Edmonton, to farm, //Glengarry News// 15 Sept. 1905 * Lt. Douglas McColl killed at Ypres, //GN// 7 May 1915, //Cornwall Freeholder// 6 May 1915 * Mrs Annie McColl, of Ottawa, formerly of Maxville, has lost three sons in the war, //CF //28 Sept. 1916 (illustr.) repr. from //Ottawa Journal//
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