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William Wallace Macleod
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Post office inspector.
Born at New London, Prince Edward Island on 25 March 1849, son of John Macleod and Isabelle McKie, he was educated at New London and Charlottetown. He entered the postal service of Prince Edward Island in 1866. Fifteen years later, he came to Winnipeg, serving as postal inspector from April 1881 to January 1912. Until 1905 the inspectorate covered Winnipeg to the Rockies, and later it was divided into five districts: Winnipeg, Moose Jaw, Saskatoon, Edmonton, and Calgary. He retired and was succeeded by H. H. Phinney.
He and wife Marie Eliza Baeirsto (1858-1939) had two sons and two daughters: Evelyn Collingwood Macleod (1881-1963), Kathleen Louise Macleod (1883-1971, wife of Harold Champion Hawkins Sprague and Stephen Elswood Richards), Luelle Woonona Macleod (1885-1955, wife of Athol Robert James McBean), and Roland McNutt Macleod. He died at his Winnipeg home, 47 Kingsway, on 2 November 1912 and was buried in the Elmwood Cemetery.
See also:
Historic Sites of Manitoba: Clements House (47 Kingway, Winnipeg)
Birth registration [Kathleen Louise Mcleod], Manitoba Vital Statistics.
A Political Manual of the Province of Manitoba and the North-West Territories by J. P. Robertson, Winnipeg: Call Printing Company, 1887.
1901 Canada census, Automated Genealogy.
Marriage registration [Luelle Woonona Mcleod, Athol Bobat McBean], Manitoba Vital Statistics.
Marriage registration [Kathleen L Mcleod, Harold Champion Sprague], Manitoba Vital Statistics.
“Forty-six years in postal service,” Manitoba Free Press, 25 January 1912, page 22.
Death registration, Manitoba Vital Statistics.
“W. W. Macleod, veteran post office inspector, is dead,” Winnipeg Tribune, 2 November 1912, page 1.
“W. W. Macleod, pioneer, dead,” Winnipeg Telegram, 4 November 1912. [Manitoba Legislative Library, Biographical Scrapbook B5]
Death registration [Luelle Woonona McBean], British Columbia Vital Statistics.
“Mrs. A. McBean of Winnipeg,” Winnipeg Tribune, 18 November 1955, page 29.
Pioneers and Early Citizens of Manitoba, Winnipeg: Manitoba Library Association, 1971.
We thank Don Lowe for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 13 September 2024
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