Carleton Lamont MacMillan, CM (April 18, 1903 – February 10, 1978) was a physician and political figure in

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, Canada. He represented Victoria in the

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from 1949 to 1967 as a Liberal member. MacMillan was born in Goldboro, Nova Scotia. He was educated at Sydney Academy,

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and Dalhousie Medical School. He set up practice in

Baddeck Baddeck () is a village on Cape Breton Island in northeastern Nova Scotia, Canada. It is situated in the center of Cape Breton, approximately 6 km east of where the Baddeck River empties into Bras d'Or Lake. Baddeck is the shire-town of t ...

. In 1972, he was named to the

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for a lifetime of service as a general practitioner and as a medical health officer in Nova Scotia. MacMillan published ''Memoirs of a Cape Breton doctor'' in 1975.

References

A Guide to the Dr. Carleton Lamont MacMillan Collection, Dalhousie University Archives
Nova Scotia Liberal Party MLAs Members of the Order of Canada People from Baddeck, Nova Scotia 1903 births 1978 deaths Acadia University alumni Dalhousie University alumni 20th-century members of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly {{Liberal-NovaScotia-MLA-stub