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Oliver Tiffany Macklem came to Kingston in 1925 to teach at the Royal Military College. The Bermingham family had many connections with the College and Professor Macklem met and married Katherine Bermingham. They had two sons, Oliver (Dick) and Peter and lived in the Bermingham home at the corner of Barrie and King Streets. Their social life and travels were those of a well-to-do family, with connections with the military and prominent in the Roman Catholic Church in Kingston.

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MacLachlan Lumber Company was founded in 1927 after A. Grant MacLachlan purchased Hooper and Slater, sash and door manufacturers, at 128 to 132 Ontario Street. It was first established as MacLachlan and Slater, with Thomas Slater staying on as partner with Grant MacLachlan. In 1935, Grant MacLachlan worked in Ottawa as Executive Assistant to Norman Rogers, MP for Kingston and the Islands and Minister of Labour. During this time, Ian MacLachlan, Grant's brother, joined the company.

In 1962, the name was changed to MacLachlan Lumber Company (Kingston) Limited. In 1979, the company purchased the land on which the company was situated, changing the company's legal name to MacLachlan Holdings Limited. At this time, it operated under the name of MacLachlan Lumber Company Limited, until closing in 198-.

Alexander Grant MacLachlan (1897-1973) was born in Turkey and educated at Queen's University where he earned a B.Sc. in 1922. For many years Mr. MacLachlan operated a construction firm and later a lumber firm in Kingston. In 1936 he took a leave of absence to serve as private secretary to Kingston M.P. Norman Rogers, first in the Department of Labour and then of Defence. After Mr. Rogers died in a plane crash in 1940 Mr. MacLachlan remained with the Labour Department until 1941 when he returned to his Kingston lumber business. Mr. MacLachlan was a leader in many community activities and in 1956 was named Man of the Year by the Junior Chamber of Commerce.

Sandy MacLachlan was born in Kingston August 12, 1924, son of Grant and Sara MacLachlan, brother of Francis and Katharine. He was a long time resident of Kingston, former businessman and community leader. Over the years he was involved with St. Margaret's Church, the H.M.C.S. Huron association, the H.M.C.S. Cataraqui association, the MacLachlan Woodworking Museum, and the Clan Maclachlan society.

Sybil M. MacLachlan (née Spencer) was a graduate of Queen's University, B.A 1926.

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Maclean-Hunter Limited was renamed "Maclean Hunter Limited" in 1981. In 1982, the company acquired a controlling interest in Sun Media; ownership of the Financial Post was transferred to Sun Media in 1987 to facilitate the publication's expansion from a weekly to a daily newspaper.

By the early 1990s, Maclean Hunter's assets also included cable television services in 35 Ontario markets, 21 radio stations, television station CFCN in Calgary and a significant minority share in CTV.

Maclean Hunter was acquired in 1994 by Rogers Communications. The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission approved the transaction, but required Rogers to divest itself of some of Maclean Hunter's individual assets to alleviate concerns about concentration of media ownership. Shaw Communications acquired some of the cable holdings and radio stations, Telemedia and Blackburn Radio acquired other radio stations, and the consortium of Baton Broadcasting and Electrohome acquired CFCN and the CTV shares. Sun Media was sold in an employee buyout in 1996.

Maclean Hunter also had cable holdings in the United States, which were acquired by Comcast in 1994.

Maclean Hunter lives on in the publication Maclean's magazine.

The former assets of Maclean Hunter was sold by Rogers to St. Joseph Communications in March 2019.