Biography of Will McCraney, A.M.

William McCraney, leading business man of Oakville, and a member of the House of Commons from 1875 to 1879, was born in the township of Trafalgar, two short miles from Oakville, on the 15th of December, 1831. His grandfather, William McCraney, for whom he was named, was a U.E. Loyalist, leaving the States about the time of the Revolution, and settling at first at Caledonia, in the county of Haldimand. The father of our subject was Hiram McCraney, who was born in 1801, in what is now the county of Brant, came with the family to Trafalgar, county of Halton, … Read more