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Robert Ewen McLennan 1880-1901

Ewen was born in Victoria August 1, 1880. The family moved to Salt Spring Island when he was two years old and he attended Beaver Point School when it was built in 1885.

Ewen had an insignificant cut that became infected and he died of blood poisoning July 8, 1901, when he was twenty-one years old. His father, Alexander, was a staunch Presbyterian, but there being no Presbyterian Church on the Island, Ewen was the first person buried in the Burgoyne United Churchyard, a Methodist Church at the time. His red granite stone was brought to Salt Spring from Scotland.