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Ranald MacKinnon
Ranald MacKinnon (sometimes spelled ''McKinnon'') was a soldier and a civil servant of the British Empire from 1758 until his death in 1805.
As a junior officer he served with Montgomerie's Highlanders (77th Regiment of Foot) in the French and Indian War in North America, primarily in Pennsylvania and North Carolina. During the American Revolutionary War he served as a junior officer of the Royal Highland Emigrants (84th Regiment of Foot), and also as colonel of the militia of Queens County, Nova Scotia. He was, in large part, responsible for ensuring that southwestern Nova Scotia remained loyal to the King during the Revolution.
The district now known as the Municipality of Argyle was named by MacKinnon in reference to his homeland in western Scotland.
==French and Indian War==
Ranald MacKinnon was born in the Isle of Skye in 1737. His ancestry can be traced to Lachlan Dhu, chief of the MacKinnon clan in 1580.〔Brown, George S.; ''Yarmouth, Nova Scotia: A Sequel to Campbell's History''; reprinted 1995, Argyle Municipal Historical and Genealogical Society, Tusket, NS, p. 269〕 On September 21, 1758, he was commissioned as a lieutenant in the 77th Reg't. of Foot. He served with the 77th in several campaigns during the war, including Gen. John Forbes' expedition against Fort Duquesne, now Pittsburgh, PA, in 1758.〔Dictionary of Canadian Biography, http://www.biographi.ca/EN/009004-119.01-e.php?&id_nbr=2543〕 He was wounded in battle against the Cherokee Nation in North Carolina during the Anglo-Cherokee War in 1760,〔Brown, p. 269〕 but recovered to join the expedition to retake St. John's, NL from the French in 1762.〔Dictionary of Canadian Biography〕 At the end of the war in 1763 he went on half-pay, and soon found a job as part of a surveying party in southwest Nova Scotia.〔Brown, p. 270〕
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