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Malcolm Hugh MacLeod
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Railroader.
Born at Isle of Skye, Inverness County, Scotland on 13 July 1857, son of John MacLeod (1820-1901) and Euphemia MacPherson (1820-1903), he came to the USA in 1862 and was educated at public and private schools of Pennsylvania and New York. He then worked on location and construction of various railways, principally in Canada, in capacity of axeman, chainman, rodman starting in 1878.
He was Assistant Assistant Chief, Superintending Engineer, and Chief Engineer of the Crow’s Nest Division of the Canadian Pacific Railway (1898-1899). In 1900, he left the service of the CPR to take the position of Chief Engineer with the Canadian Northern Railway, being appointed General Manager and Chief Engineer in 1907, based in Winnipeg. Under his supervision from 1900 to 1910, the CNR built 3,263 miles of new lines west of Port Arthur on the Great Lakes.
He was married twice, first in 1895 to Emma Plaw (1876-1897) and second in 1926 to Ella May Taylor (1889-1970).
He died at York Ontario on 9 February 1928 and was buried in the Mount Pleasant Cemetery at Toronto, Ontario.
Obituary [Emma Plaw McLeod], Ottawa Journal, 2 February 1897, page 7.
Who’s Who in Western Canada: A Biographical Dictionary of Notable Living Men and Women of Western Canada, Volume 1, edited by C. W. Parker, Vancouver: Canadian Press Association, 1911.
The Story of Manitoba by F. H. Schofield, Winnipeg: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company, 1913.
The Leading Financial, Business & Professional Men of Winnipeg, published by Edwin McCormick, Photographs by T. J. Leatherdale, Compiled and printed by Stone Limited, c1913. [copy available at the Archives of Manitoba]
“Pioneer rail builder M. H. M'Leod is dead,” Toronto Star, 9 February 1928, page 1.
“M. H. Macleod, railway builder, dies at Toronto,” Winnipeg Tribune, 10 February 1928, page 7.
Malcolm Hugh MacLeod, FindAGrave.
Ella May Taylor MacLeod, FindAGrave.
We thank Darryl Toews for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 20 May 2024
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