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Roland McNutt Macleod
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Businessman.
Born at Winnipeg on 12 December 1888, son of postal inspector Wallace Wallace Macleod and Marie Eliza Baeirsto (1857-1939), he operated a hardware store at Watrous, Saskatchewan for several years. By 1916, he was back at Winnipeg where, in 1917, he co-founded with his brother-in-law Athol Robert James McBean a mail order farm supply business that became Macleods Limited. In the 1930s he began expanding the company to Saskatchewan and Alberta. He was the firm’s managing director until retirement to Victoria, British Columbia in 1946.
He was married twice, first on 27 January 1913 to Mary Bertha Morrison (1890-?) at Clay, Indiana. They had two sons, Ross Evelyn Macleod (1914-?, husband of Myrtle May Porter) at Watrous, Saskatchewan and Douglas William Macleod (1926-1926) at Winnipeg. The family lived at 150 Lilac Street (c1916), 793 McMillan Avenue (c1918), and 1037 McMillan Avenue (c1921-c1931). He later married widow Jacqueline Louise “Jacquie” Waddington (1921-2019).
He died at Victoria, British Columbia on 30 November 1973.
See also:
Manitoba Business: Macleods Limited / Macleod Stedman Limited
Birth registrations [Kathleen Louise Mcleod, Douglas William Macleod], Manitoba Vital Statistics.
1901 Canada census, Automated Genealogy.
“W. W. Macleod, veteran post office inspector, is dead,” Winnipeg Tribune, 2 November 1912, page 1.
Birth registrations [Mary Bertha Morrison, Ross Evelyn Mac Leod], Saskatchewan Vital Statistics.
1916, 1921, and 1931 Canada censuses, Ancestry.
“Births,” Winnipeg Tribune, 15 November 1926, page 16.
“Deaths,” Winnipeg Tribune, 17 November 1926, page 19.
Marriage registration [Ross Evlyn Macleod, Myrtle May Porter], Manitoba Vital Statistics.
“The Great West Saddlery Company Limited [Ross E. Macleod],” Winnipeg Free Press, 24 January 1959, page 49.
Death registration [Roland McNutt Macleod], British Columbia Vital Statistics.
Obituary, Winnipeg Free Press, 1 December 1973, page 45.
Roland McNutt Macleod (1888-1973), WikiTree.
Jacqueline Louise “Jacquie” Waddington, FindAGrave.
We thank Don Lowe for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 14 September 2024
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