John Duncan MacCallum

Island story

John Duncan MacCallum was born on Pictou Island on 13 July 1918 and later built a legal and public career in Saint John, New Brunswick. Published biographical sources identify him as a lawyer and as the Liberal member for Saint John Centre in the New Brunswick legislature from 1963 to 1967. His relevance to PIHS extends beyond public office: PIHS records that historical research later developed by Kenneth MacCallum had been begun by Kenneth’s father, John Duncan MacCallum. That gives John Duncan a place in both the Island diaspora and the chain through which Island history was researched and preserved.