Angus MacLean

The Honourable John Angus MacLean
25th Premier of Prince Edward Island
In office 3 May 1979 – 17 November 1981
Monarch	Elizabeth II
Lieutenant Governor	Gordon L. Bennett Joseph Aubin Doiron
Preceded by	W. Bennett Campbell
Succeeded by	James Lee
Member of the Canadian Parliament for Queens
In office 1951–1968
Preceded by	James Lester Douglas
Succeeded by	district abolished
Member of the Canadian Parliament for Malpeque
In office 1968–1976
Preceded by	district created
Succeeded by	Don Wood
Personal details
Born	John Angus MacLean (1914-05-15)May 15, 1914 Lewes, PEI
Died	February 15, 2000(2000-02-15) (aged 85) Charlottetown, PEI
Nationality	Canadian
Political party	Progressive Conservative
Other political affiliations	Progressive Conservative
Spouse(s)	Gwendolyn Esther Burwash (m. 1952)
Children	Jean, Allan, Mary, and Robert
Residence	Charlottetown, PEI
Alma mater	Mount Allison University University of British Columbia
Occupation	Farmer
Profession	Politician
Cabinet	Federal: Ministers of Fisheries (1957-1963) Postmaster General (acting) (1962-1963) Provincial: Minister Responsible for Cultural Affairs (1979-1980)
Religion	Presbyterians

John Angus MacLean, PC, OC, DFC (15 May 1914 – 15 February 2000) was a politician and farmer in Prince Edward Island, Canada.

He was an alumnus of both Mount Allison University and the University of British Columbia with degrees in science. MacLean left farming to enlist in the Royal Canadian Air Force during World War II, serving from 1939–1947 and achieving the rank of Wing Commander.

MacLean's bomber was shot down, and he evaded capture in Nazi-occupied Europe with the help of the Belgian escape-line Comète with Andrée De Jongh.

MacLean returned to Prince Edward Island after the war, and ran for a seat in the Canadian House of Commons as a Progressive Conservative Party of Canada candidate, but was defeated in the 1945 and 1949 federal elections.

He was first elected to Parliament in a 1951 by-election and held his seat continuously until he left federal politics in 1976. MacLean served in the cabinet of Prime Minister John Diefenbaker as Minister of Fisheries from 1957 until the government's defeat in the 1963 election.

In 1976, MacLean was persuaded to leave federal politics and take the leadership of the Prince Edward Island Progressive Conservative Party which had languished in opposition for a decade. MacLean led the party to victory in 1979, and formed a government that emphasized rural community life, banned new shopping malls and instituted a Royal Commission to examine land use and sprawl. His government cancelled the province's participation in the Point Lepreau Nuclear Generating Station in New Brunswick.

At the age of 67, MacLean retired as premier on 17 November 1981 and did not run in the 1982 provincial election. He returned to the family farm that he redeveloped for low-intensity blueberry farming. A respected steward of the land and of rural communities, MacLean was a committed Presbyterian of Scottish descent. In 1991, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada.

He died in Charlottetown on 15 February 2000.

External links

• Order of Canada citation
• Angus MacLean – Parliament of Canada biography

v t e Premiers of Prince Edward Island Crown Colony of Prince Edward Island (1850–1873) Coles Holl Coles E. Palmer Gray Pope Coles Hensley Haythorne Pope Haythorne Province of Prince Edward Island (1873–present) Pope Owen Davies Sullivan McLeod F. Peters Warburton Farquharson A. Peters Haszard J. Palmer Mathieson Arsenault Bell Stewart Saunders Lea Stewart MacMillan Lea T. Campbell Jones Matheson Shaw A. Campbell B. Campbell MacLean Lee J. Ghiz Callbeck Milligan Binns R. Ghiz

v t e Ministers of Fisheries and Oceans Ministers of Marine and Fisheries (1867–1930)1 Mitchell Smith Pope McLelan Foster Tupper Costigan Davies Sutherland Préfontaine Laurier (acting) Brodeur Lemieux Hazen Ballantyne Lapointe Cardin Black (acting) Patenaude (acting) Cardin (acting) Ministers of Marine (1930–1936)2 Cardin Duranleau Gendron Howe Ministers of Fisheries (1930–1969) Macmillan Rhodes Duranleau (acting) Stirling (acting) Ernst Michaud Bertrand Bridges Bertrand (acting) Gregg MacKinnon Mayhew Sinclair MacLean Robichaud Davis Minister of Fisheries and Forestry (1969–1971) Davis Ministers of the Environment (1971–1976)3 Davis Sauvé LeBlanc (acting) Marchand LeBlanc (acting) Ministers of State (Fisheries) (1974–1976) LeBlanc Minister of Fisheries and the Environment (1976–1979) LeBlanc Ministers of Fisheries and Oceans (1979–) LeBlanc McGrath LeBlanc de Bané Breau Fraser Nielsen Siddon Valcourt Crosbie Reid Tobin Dingwall (acting) Mifflin Anderson Dhaliwal Thibault Regan Hearn Shea Ashfield 1The office of Minister of Marine and Fisheries was abolished and the offices of Minister of Fisheries and Minister of Marine were created in 1930 2The offices of Minister of Marine and Minister of Railways and Canals were abolished and the office of Minister of Transport was created in 1936 3From 1971 to 1976 the Minister of the Environment was also the Minister of Fisheries.

v t e Postmasters General Campbell O'Connor Macdonald Fournier Huntington Langevin Campbell O'Connor Campbell O'Connor Carling Campbell McLelan Carling (acting) Haggart Caron Taillon Mulock Aylesworth Lemieux Béland Pelletier Casgrain Blondin Belley Murphy Manion Veniot Sauvé Gobeil Elliott McLarty Power Ilsley (acting) Mulock Bertrand Rinfret Côté Pinard (acting) Lapointe Hamilton MacLean (acting) Fairclough Denis Nicholson Tremblay Côté Kierans Côté Ouellet Mackasey Blais Lamontagne Fraser Ouellet1 1The office of Postmaster General was abolished when the Post Office Department became a Crown Corporation known as the Canada Post Corporation on October 16, 1981.