Pioneer.
Born in Ontario on 24 June 1846, she was the first white woman in the Emerson district. Her husband William had come to Manitoba with the Wolseley Expedition in 1870, over the Dawson trail, before returning to London, Ontario, then finally coming to Manitoba in 1872. Mrs. McClellend accompanied him coming via Duluth and Fisher’s Landing. They came on the maiden trip of the steamer Selkirk.
She had ten children: Francis McClelland (1871-?), William McClelland (1873-?), Joseph McClelland (1874-?), George McClelland (1876-?), Susan McClelland (1877-?), Thomas McClelland (1879-?, father of Irene Glenne McClelland Milne), Hugh McClelland (1881-?), Ruth McClelland (1885-?), Charles Victor McClelland (1886-?), and Helen McClelland (1889-?). Her sons all worked as farmers in Manitoba with the exception of Dr. McClellend of Dominion City.
She died in the RM of Montcalm on 20 April 1931 and was buried in the Emerson Cemetery.
Pioneers and Prominent People of Manitoba, Winnipeg: Canadian Publicity Company, 1925.
1901 Canada census, Automated Genealogy.
Death registration, Manitoba Vital Statistics.
Obituaries and burial transcriptions, Manitoba Genealogical Society.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 16 January 2022
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