(died 10 Feb. 1936, aged 77), clergyman. Born at Amherstburg, Ont. Parents: Rev. William McLaren and his wife Marjory Laing. The Rev. Wm. McLaren was a principal of Knox College, Toronto. David McLaren, the subject of the present article, studied at the University of Toronto and Knox College, the University of Edinburgh and Bonn University, Germany. He was pastor of the Presbyterian congregation in Alexandria from 20 April 1886 till 1908 (resignation 10 July 1908). His was the “longest pastorate” in the congregation’s history. Its 22 years covered most of the best period of the rising Alexandria’s industrial prosperity. In 1902, the congregation opened its newly built MacLaren Hall (Glengarry News 14 Feb. 1902), which we may assume was named after him. This hall was the home also of the congregation’s library, known as the MacLaren Hall Library. In 1903 the manse was destroyed in a fire, and rebuilt. After leaving Alexandria, he served on the staff of the Presbyterian Church headquarters, Toronto, and on retirement in 1921, he moved to Victoria, B. C. He died in Victoria. (two children)

Glengarry News 14 Feb. 1936 * B. C. death registration * MacMillan, Kirk, 262 (QF) * Morgan (1898) 704 (father) * MacLaren Hall: Ostrom 8; see also J. L. Wilson * library: MacGillivray & Ross 268 * he and wife honoured by congregation, GN 11 June 1897 * wife finds body of apparent suicide on Kenyon Street, Alexandria, Glengarrian 20 Dec. 1907