Duncan Marshall

Duncan McLean Marshall
The Hon. Duncan McLean Marshall
Canadian Senator Ontario
In office January 20, 1938 – January 16, 1946
Personal details
Born	September 24, 1872 Elderslie Township, Ontario
Died	January 16, 1946(1946-01-16) (aged 73)
Political party	Liberal

Duncan McLean Marshall (born: September 24, 1872 Elderslie Township, Ontario - died: January 16, 1946) was a Canadian journalist, publisher, rancher provincial level politician and Minister of Agriculture in 2 provinces and later served in the Canadian Senate representing the province of Ontario.

Marshall's first employment was as a teacher at Gillies Hill, Ontario, Canada.

By 1891 he was involved in the Patrons of Industry movement and was identified as an organizer with the fraternal agricultural organization. In 1895 he was sent to Prince Edward Island and began organizing there and in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. Early success led to the creation of weekly newspaper under the banner The Patron of Industry in January 1896 but it was closed in November of the same year. During the period Marshall attempted to turn to organization into a political party in the province but did not succeed and he returned to Ontario. The Patrons of Industry was disbanded in 1898.

Marshall moved on to become the Grand Secretary and editor and publisher of the official organ of the Order of Good Templars, a temperance organization.

He later moved to Toronto where he was involved in newspaper publishing and eventually acquired a number of farm interest weeklies. Marshall made his first run at federal politics running in the Muskoka riding in the 1904 Canadian federal election he was defeated by Conservative candidate William Wright.

In 1905 Marshall moved to Alberta and was for three years managing editor of the Edmonton Bulletin. He subsequently purchased a farm near Olds, Alberta and found success as a cattle and horse breeder. He owned The Olds Gazette, a weekly newspaper in Olds, Alberta.

Marshall was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta for the first time in the 1909 Alberta general election to the new Olds electoral district. He won the new district easily over Conservative candidate George McDonald.