Archibald MacKeller MacMechan FRSC (1862 - 1933)

Born 21 Jun 1862 in Berlin (now Kitchener), Ontario, Canada

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Died 7 Aug 1933 at age 71 in Halifax, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

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Biography

Archibald McKellar MacMechan (1862-1933) was the son of The Reverend John and Mary Jean MacMechan.

He began his university education at the University of Toronto in 1880 and graduated in 1884 with a Bachelor of Arts. He taught school in Brockville and Galt for the next two years, then entered Johns Hopkins University as a doctoral candidate in modern languages, receiving his PhD in 1889.
That same year he married Edith May Cowan, with whom he had had three daughters, Jean, Grace and Edith.

MacMechan was appointed professor of English at Dalhousie University in 1889, where he remained until 1931, helping to establish the Dalhousie University Marine Museum and briefly serving as University Librarian. He also served as president of the Nova Scotia Historical Society (1907-1910) and was awarded a fellowship in the Royal Society of Canada (1926). MacMechan was a prolific writer of essays, articles and books throughout his lifetime.

He died on the 7th of August 1933.

Sources

• Archibald MacKeller MacMechan (1862-1933) on Find A Grave: Memorial #115727389 retrieved 04 September 2018
• Family Records. Entered by MaryAnn Cervin-Lawry at creation.
• Wikipedia contributors, "Archibald MacMechan," Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Archibald_MacMechan&oldid=744755766 (accessed October 17, 2016).
• Memory NS
• LDS burial record
• Janet E. Baker, “MACMECHAN, ARCHIBALD MCKELLAR,” in Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 16, University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2003–, accessed October 11, 2017, http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/macmechan_archibald_mckellar_16E.html.