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MCLEAN, ARCHIBALD CAMPBELL (1857-1932)

MCLEAN, ARCHIBALD CAMPBELL, tinsmith, household appliance vendor, and plumbing and heating business proprietor; b. Chatham, 7 Jan 1857, s/o William McLean and Margaret Campbell; m. 1883, Mary Ann McDiarmid, d/o John McDiarmid and Catherine McKenzie, of Napan; d. Chatham, 13 Apr 1932.

In 1879 Archibald C. McLean took over James Gray's tin shop in Chatham. From this evolved the household appliance and plumbing and heating firm of A. C. McLean & Sons, which was the principal business of its kind in Chatham for many years. In 1886 McLean built what was said to be the first metal canoe in Canada, for Dr James McG. Baxter. This was a thirteen-foot craft of galvanized iron, weighing forty-five pounds, and designed for use in shallow water. In 1895 he was awarded the contract to install one of the first central heating systems on the Miramichi in the county almshouse. When his business was moved into spacious new quarters on Cunard Street in 1904 his stock included tinware, enamelware, furnaces, stoves, ranges, washers and wringers, and ice cream freezers. Plumbing supplies and services were added in 1910.

Prior to church union McLean was a trustee of St John's Church, Chatham. He and his wife, Mary Ann McDiarmid, had three daughters and three sons who survived childhood. Their daughters included Eva C. McLean, the wife of Frederick P. Heckbert. Two of their sons, Harry McLean and Herbert R. McLean, succeeded to the business in 1932 and conducted it until it was sold to the Maltby plumbing and heating firm in 1949.

Sources

[b/d] McLean family data [m] World 21 Apr 1883 / Advance 1 Jan 1896, 1 Sep 1904; Commercial World 11 Dec 1958; Fraser (C); Globe 21 Mar 1949; World 16 Jun 1886, 28 Oct 1905,7 May 1910


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