MacCallum Grant

Who was MacCallum Grant?

MacCallum Grant was a Canadian businessman and the 12th Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia.

Born at Loyal Hill in Hants County, Nova Scotia, the son of John Nutting and Margaret Grant, Grant was educated in Newport, Nova Scotia. He commenced his business career with S. A. White & Co, in 1873. He was a member of the firm Black Bros. Co. from 1875 to 1893. He then formed the firm Grant, Oxley & Company. Grant, Oxley & Company merged with Alfred J. Bell & Co. Ltd. in 1964 and still operates today under the name of Bell & Grant Insurance.

In 1899 he was appointed as Imperial Consul of Germany in Halifax. From 1916 to 1925, he served as Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia. He was Lieutenant Governor at the time of the Halifax Explosion. During the 1919 visit to Nova Scotia by Edward VIII as Prince of Wales, Grant hosted the royal party at Government House.

He married Laura MacNeill Parker in 1887 and they had 5 children:

Eric MacNeill Grant - born 1889; Captain Dr. Gerald Wallace Grant, MC, MB, CH - born 1890; Margaret Frances MacNeill Grant - born 1893; Captain John Moreau Grant, CBE - born 1895; Major Grainger Stewart Grant, MC - born 1897; Vice Admiral Harold Taylor Wood Grant - born 1899;