Frank Roland MacMillan (May 15, 1882 – April 7, 1948) was a prominent businessman and politician in Saskatoon in central Saskatchewan, Canada.[1]
Frank MacMillan | |
|---|---|
| Mayor of Saskatoon | |
| In office 1919–1920 | |
| Preceded by | Alexander MacGillivray Young |
| Succeeded by | Alexander MacGillivray Young |
| Member of the Canada Parliament for Saskatoon | |
| In office 1930–1935 | |
| Preceded by | Alexander MacGillivray Young |
| Succeeded by | Riding abolished |
| Personal details | |
| Born | May 15, 1882 Chicago, Illinois, U.S. |
| Died | April 7, 1948 (aged 65) Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada |
| Cause of death | Heart attack |
| Political party | Conservative |
He was born in Chicago, Illinois, and moved to Toronto with his family at the age of three. He married in Toronto and moved to Saskatoon, where he worked for John Macdonald & Co. for seven years before starting his own menswear business in 1908 in partnership with C. D. Mitcher.[2] He purchased the Currie Bros. store in 1911, renaming it the MacMillan Department Store[2] and in 1913 opened moved it to the new MacMillan Building was opened at 21st Street and Third Avenue. MacMillan sold his business to Eaton's in 1927.[3]
MacMillan was elected to Saskatoon city council as an alderman in 1913[2] and became Mayor of Saskatoon in 1919.[3]
A Conservative, he ran for the Saskatoon federal seat in the House of Commons of Canada in the 1925 and 1926 federal elections without success before winning a seat in the 1930 federal election that also elected a Tory government under R.B. Bennett. As an MP, MacMillan served on the House of Commons' Railway Committee and was instrumental in persuading the federal government to contribute to the construction of the 19th Street and Broadway Bridge as relief projects during the Great Depression[2] as well as the C. P. Bridge at Borden.[3] He did not run in the 1935 federal election.
MacMillan died of a heart attack in a Vancouver, British Columbia, hotel on April 7, 1948.[3]
References
edit- ^ Pedersen, Jen. "A Seat on Council: The Aldermen, Councillors and Mayors of Saskatoon 1903-2006" (PDF). City of Saskatoon. Archived from the original (PDF) on 23 June 2014.
- ^ a b c d "Archives Canada". Archived from the original on 25 July 2011. Retrieved 19 August 2009.
- ^ a b c d "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 13 November 2007. Retrieved 19 August 2009.
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