Malcolm Mclean

Mac McLean died at home in Ottawa on Tuesday, November 12, 2013, after a diagnosis of lung cancer made only two months earlier. Born in Aylmer, Quebec on October 24, 1925, Mac was a 1948 graduate of McGill University's School of Architecture, and in his 40-year practice designed innumerable schools, churches, and other institutional buildings in Ottawa and its extended environs. Mac and his beloved wife Eva celebrated their 65th wedding anniversary on August 18 this past summer. Their son James Malcolm did not survive infancy. In the last few weeks of Mac's life, their children Jennifer and William (from Vancouver), and Diane (from Sudbury), were each able to spend time in their parents' company. At 88 years of age, Mac had enjoyed a 25-year retirement with Eva filled with warm Florida winters, Norway Bay summers in the frequent company of their extended family including in-laws David Wood and Catherine Campbell, tri-weekly golf, and the pleasures of watching grandsons Alexander and Brendan Wood, and Andrew McLean, grow and mature. Friends of Mac and Eva may call at St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church, 82 Kent Street (at Wellington), Ottawa, on Saturday, November 16, 2013 from 1:00 PM, in Grant Hall, and are cordially invited to attend the 2:00 PM remembrance service, with reception to follow in the church hall. In Mac's memory, and in lieu of flowers, the family suggests that donations be made to the Canadian Diabetes Association.