!SOURCE: Rev. Dr. Donald MacKinnon and Alick Morrison, THE MACLEODS:
THE GENEALOGY OF A CLAN, Section III, "Cadet Families", Edinburgh, The
Clan MacLeod Society, 1970, pp. 148-149.
James Farquharson, C.M.G.,... was born in 1836, and joined the Mounted
Police of Canada, in which he became a Lieutenant-Colonel at Fort
MacLeod, and of which he was appointed Commissioner in 1876. he was a
B.A. of Queen''s College, Kingston, and was called to the Bar in 1860. He
volunteered for military service and distinguished himself in the Trent
Affair 1861, the suppression of Fenian Raids in 1866, and the Reil
Rebellion 1869-70. In 1880, Commissioner MacLeod, whose "name had
become a byword as that of a remarkably fair and fearless
adminsitrator, became Stipendiary Magistrate for the Northwest
Territories". For the great andvaluaable services he rendered he was
created a Companion of the Order of St. Michael and St. George. He died,
on 5th September 1894, at Calgary, Alberta, aged fifty years. A tablet
to his memory was unveiled, on 12th September 1948, in the Chapel of
the Royal Canadian Mounted Police at the Barracks, Regina. He married
Mary Drever of Winnipeg in 1876, daughter of William Drever and his
wife, Helen Rothney, with issue.