death_date death_place birth_place imagesize party office birth_date term_start article_title term_end name
11 december 1907 thornbury , ontario islay , argyll , scotland 180px conservative member east of the legislative assembly of ontario for grey 13 february 1834 1884 neil mccolman
 1886 neil mccolman
neil mccolman

neil mccolman -lrb- february 13 , 1834 -- december 11 , 1907 -rrb- was an ontario political figure .
he represented grey east in the legislative assembly of ontario from 1884 to 1886 as a conservative member .
he was born on the island of islay , argyll , scotland in 1834 , the son of peter mccolman , and came with his family to caledon west , canada west in 1845 .
the family later moved to a farm near collingwood .
mccolman was a farmer until 1882 , when he moved to thornbury .
in 1857 , he married martha green .
he was elected to the township council for collingwood , also serving as reeve .
he was elected to the ontario assembly in an 1884 by-election held after the death of abram william lauder .
mccolman was a master in the local orange lodge .
