13 Jun 1947
LAUCHLIN J. MACEACHERN – Lauchlin J. MacEachern, retired businessman, passed away Friday evening at the home of his son, Gildersleeve, at the age of 85. HIs health had been failing for some time. For 55 years Mr. MacEachern was associated with the business life of eastern Nova Scotia. Son of the late Donald L. MacEachern and Mary (Gilis) MacEachern he was born at Cape George, July 7, 1862. As a young man he opened a general store at Ballantyne’s Cove, his interests in time also embracing the buying and marketing of fish, livestock, and farm products, a major part of his undertaking being with Newfoundland dealers. During the mining boom Mr. MacEachern and family moved to Inverness where he became identified with the business life of the town and surrounding county as a general merchant. He built the Imperial Hotel which was afterwards operated by his sisters-in-law, Martha, Milly and Sarah Beaton. Returning to his native county in 1919 he resumed his business at Cape George and bought a home in Antigonish town to be with Mrs. MacEachern and family. In his earlier years Mr. MacEachern represented the Cape George district for 20 or more years in the County Council. Surviving are only two members of the council’s to which he belonged – A. Sterling MacMillan, Halifax, former Premier of Nova Scotia, and the present councilor Roderick J. Chisholm of Meadow Green. Business integrity and sympathetic understanding won for L.J. MacEachern a warm place in many hearts in the Cape George district. He was for many years a warden of the Catholic Church at Ballantyne’s Cove where he lived and worked the greater part of his life. His wife Annie, daughter of John Beaton and Catherine (MacDonald) Beaton of Broad Cove, died in 1941. Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. John A. Chisholm, Antigonish, and Ruth; two sons, Gildersleve and Donald, Maryvale; and a brother, Daniel MacEachern, Seattle, Wash. A son John died in England on active service in 1918. The funeral was held Monday morning at 10 o’clock at St. Ninian’s Cathedral. Rev. D.E. MacDonald officiated at requiem mass.