Cyrus MacMillan

Born in Wood Islands, Prince Edward Island, Cyrus Macmillan was a Canadian academic, writer, and politician. Reliable sources found in this search agree that he studied at McGill University and later earned a Ph.D. from Harvard before returning to McGill, where he taught English and eventually became a senior university leader.

As an author, he is especially remembered for books such as Canadian Wonder Tales, Canadian Fairy Tales, and Glooskap's Country and Other Indian Tales. His work drew on folklore, oral storytelling, and Canadian literary traditions, and he became known for presenting these materials in a way that reached general readers and younger audiences.

Macmillan also served in public life, including work in federal politics, which made his career broader than that of most literary figures. Some sources in this search disagree about the exact birth year attached to his name, but archival material from McGill identifies him as born in 1878 and dying in 1953.