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Jun 10, 1760 Kilmarnock, Scotland, United Kingdom Died on 01 Jan 0001 (aged 1759)
Scottish pioneer and businessman in Quebec
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About John Macnider
- 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.
