{"id":8410,"date":"1895-10-29T16:31:00","date_gmt":"1895-10-30T00:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peipioneercemetery.com\/staging\/?p=8410"},"modified":"2026-10-29T16:32:42","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T23:32:42","slug":"merchants-in-public-life-souris-and-its-neighbours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peipioneercemetery.com\/staging\/merchants-in-public-life-souris-and-its-neighbours\/","title":{"rendered":"Merchants in Public Life: Souris and Its Neighbours"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">John Robert McLean (1906\u20131964)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A merchant and businessman who served in the provincial legislature and as Speaker of the House of Assembly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Roy Clifford McLean (1881\u20131959)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Remembered as a soldier, merchant, businessman, mayor of Souris and founder of the Souris Citizens\u2019 Band.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Alexander T. MacDonald (1867\u20131939)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A bookkeeper who also served as mayor of Souris.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">John J. MacCormack (1896\u20131987)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A carpenter and mayor of Souris. The guide describes him as believed to have been the last person born on Boughton Island; that remains an attributed claim.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The two Caleb Cushing Carltons<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Caleb Cushing Carlton Sr. (1834\u20131904) was a merchant and lobster packer. Caleb Cushing Carlton Jr. (1855\u20131936) was a merchant and town clerk. Both are listed as American consuls for the port.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Their occupations and public roles provide starting points for fuller biographies. Shared surnames alone do not establish relationships between the people named here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Sources<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.islandregister.com\/burials\/ip4.html\">The Island Register: Burial Sites of Interesting People, Souris cemetery sections<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Robert McLean (1906\u20131964) A merchant and businessman who served in the provincial legislature and as Speaker of the House [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1457,1464],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commerce-industry","category-politics-public-service"],"gutslider_comments":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peipioneercemetery.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peipioneercemetery.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peipioneercemetery.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peipioneercemetery.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peipioneercemetery.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8410"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/peipioneercemetery.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8411,"href":"https:\/\/peipioneercemetery.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8410\/revisions\/8411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peipioneercemetery.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peipioneercemetery.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peipioneercemetery.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}