Fonds F1205 - I.V. Macklin fonds

Irvin Victor Macklin, 1888-1980, was born in Ontario. He originally intended to be a minister, but instead came west to homestead at Grande Prairie, Alberta in 1910. He married Nellie Cass, ?-1940, originally from England, in 1912, and they had two children, Velma, 1913-?, and Victor, 1917-?. He married Matilda Braun Jantz in 1941, and they had four children, Irvin, 1942-, Arthur, 1945-, Ann, 1948-, and Linda, 1954-.

Originally a Liberal, he became disillusioned with the party and joined first the United Farmers of Alberta, and later the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation. He was a Peace River director of the UFA, 1927-1935, and during this time wrote articles for the Observer, Western Producer, Free Press Weekly and Commonwealth newspapers. He joined the CCF when the UFA left politics, and ran unsuccessfully as a CCF candidate for the Peace River constituency in the 1940, 1945 and 1949 federal elections. In the 1940s and 1950s he began regular radio broadcasts on CFGP, a Grande Prairie radio station, in which he discussed religion, politics (much of it anti-Social Credit), philosophy and moral issues.

In the 1960s he wrote a regular column called "News and Views" in the Herald-Tribune newspaper of Grande Prairis. He was the author of They've Turned their Back to the Bible. -- Grande Prairie : I.V. Macklin, 1955.