
The Hon. Archibald McLelan
'Archibald Woodbury McLelan',
PC (
20 December 1824 –
26 June 1890) was a
Canadian shipbuilder and politician.
McLelan was born in
Londonderry, Nova Scotia, the son of
Gloud Wilson McLelan, a member of the
Nova Scotia House of Assembly. He was educated in Great Village and joined his father's shipping and retail business. On his father's death in 1858 he succeeded him in the House of Assembly.
A
Conservative Member of parliament, McLelan served from
10 December 1885–
26 January 1887 as the
Minister of Finance in the second administration of Sir
John A. Macdonald.
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