MILLAR, GEORGE (1862-1934)

MILLAR, GEORGE, United Church minister, Douglastown and Nelson, 1927-30; b. Tatamagouche, N.S., 24 May 1862, s/o John Millar and Louisa Dwight Patterson; m. 1907, Margaret James, of Charlottetown; d. Mulgrave, N.S., 23 Jul 1934.

George Millar was a great-grandson of the Rev. James D. McGregor and a nephew of the Rev. George Patterson, DD, the well-known journalist and historian of Pictou County. He was educated at Pictou Academy and became a teacher in Nova Scotia. After several years in the classroom he resumed his education at Dalhousie University (BA 1890) and was trained for the ministry at the Presbyterian College in Halifax (grad. 1892). He later did postgraduate study at the Union Theological Seminary in New York.

Ordained in 1896, Millar had pastorates in all three Maritime provinces during a thirty-eight-year career. Before being called to Douglastown he was the minister at New Mills, N.B., and when he left the Miramichi he went to Mulgrave, N.S. While still the minister at Douglastown in 1930 he was granted an honorary DD by Pine Hill Divinity Hall.

Millar was "of a kind, gentle nature and treated all alike." He and his wife, Margaret James, had a son who died at Douglastown at eleven years of age, and before his own death in 1934 he asked that his remains be taken to the Miramichi to rest beside those of their child.