John MacNider
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10 June 1760 Kilmarnock, Ayrshire, Scotland |
| Died | 1829 (aged 68) Kilmarnock Manor, near Quebec City |
John MacNider (10 June 1760 – 1829) was a Scottish-Quebecer businessman who pioneered the settlement and development of the Seigneuries of Grand-Métis and Métis-sur-Mer, Quebec. He is remembered as a particularly enterprising and visionary Seigneur, "a man with the dreams and ambition to pursue its (Metis's) development and with the means to do so". From nothing, he developed a thriving Scottish community into which he willingly put more money in than he ever took out. Though MacNider died three years before its completion, he played a crucial role in persuading Governor Sir James Kempt to build the road that would connect Métis by land to the outside world. The road became a settlement magnet, and Métis quickly became the principal population centre for the Gaspé region. His second wife, Mrs Angelica (Stuart) MacNider (1764-1829), kept a diary recording early life at Métis, held at the National Archives of Canada. He was the grandfather of The Hon. Félix-Gabriel Marchand, 11th Prime Minister of Quebec.
Born 1760, at Kilmarnock, Ayrshire. He was the third son of William MacNider (1725-1800), of Kilmarnock, and his wife Ann Vallance (d.1801), daughter of William Vallance of Paisley. His father owned a share of the MacNider lands at Thrave and Kirkoswald, but he was principally a merchant. William MacNider represented the family's shipping and trading business in Britain, which he ran in partnership with his younger brother, The Hon. Mathew MacNider, Seigneur of Bélair, Grondines, Sainte-Croix etc., all in Quebec. John's uncle, Mathew, represented Hampshire County in the 1st Parliament of Lower Canada, from 1792 to 1796. John's sister, Margaret MacNider (1764-1838), was married first to Lt.-Colonel James Johnston, and secondly to William Holmes, Surgeon-General to the British Forces in the Canadas.
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