{{Use mdy dates|date=July 2020}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Peter McAra Jr. | image = Peter McAra Jr.png | alt = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{Birth date|1862|11|07}} | birth_place = [[Fort William (India)|Fort William]], India | death_date = {{Death date and age|1950|02|12|1862|11|07}} | death_place = Regina, Saskatchewan | resting_place = | occupation = Businessman, politician | spouse = {{Marriage|Amanda Jane Wallace|1883}} | children = 4 | awards = | education = | party = | office = Mayor of [[Regina, Saskatchewan]] | term = 1906, 1911–1912 }}
'''Peter McAra Jr.''' (November 7, 1862 – February 12, 1950<ref name="peel"/>) was a businessman and political figure in [[Saskatchewan]], Canada. He was mayor of [[Regina, Saskatchewan|Regina]] in 1906 and from 1911 to 1912.<ref name="hawkes">{{cite book |url=http://www.ourroots.ca/e/toc.aspx?id=720 |title=The story of Saskatchewan and its people. Volume 3 |last=Hawkes |first=John |date=1924 |pages=1807–8 |accessdate=2009-08-19 |archive-date=March 4, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304045416/http://www.ourroots.ca/e/toc.aspx?id=720 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
== Biography == He was born in [[Fort William (India)|Fort William]], [[Kolkata]], India on November 7, 1862, the son of Peter McAra and Barbara Fisken, both natives of [[Scotland]], and was educated in [[Edinburgh]]. In 1883, he came to [[Last Mountain Lake|Long Lake, Saskatchewan]], where he worked for the Dominion Express Company and the [[Canadian Pacific Railway]].<ref name="Who's Who">{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZTkzAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA492 |title=Who's Who in Canada, Volume 16 |editor1-first=Charles Whately |editor1-last=Parker |editor2-first=Barnet M. |editor2-last=Greene |publisher=International Press |page=492 |year=1922 |access-date=2020-07-15 |via=Google Books}}</ref>
In 1883, he married Amanda Jane Wallace, and they had four children.<ref name="Who's Who"/> McAra opened a fire insurance office in Regina in 1896. In 1910, his brother [[James McAra|James]] and W. L. Wallace became partners in the business. He led recovery work and restoration following the [[Regina Cyclone]] of 1912. McAra was also president of the British Western Trust Corporation, head of Capital Ice Company and Income Tax Commissioner of Saskatchewan. He served as president of the Regina Board of Trade and of the Associated Boards of Trade of Saskatchewan and Alberta and served twelve years as chairman of the board for the Regina Collegiate Institute. McAra helped establish the Regina Anti-Tuberculosis League (later the Saskatchewan Lung Association) and the Union of Saskatchewan Municipalities and served as its first president for both organizations.<ref name="hawkes"/><ref name="Who's Who"/>
In 1945, he published his memoirs: ''Sixty-two years on the Saskatchewan prairies''.<ref name="peel">{{cite web |url=http://peel.library.ualberta.ca/bibliography/author/6770.html?rank=1 |title=Author Bio, McAra, Peter (1862-1949.) |publisher=Peel's Prairie Provinces, University of Alberta |accessdate=2009-08-19}}</ref>
He died in Regina on February 12, 1950.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/55436159/peter-mcara-dies-at-87/ |title=Peter McAra dies at 87 |newspaper=[[Regina Leader-Post]] |page=1 |date=1950-02-13 |access-date=2020-07-15 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref>
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