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MACISAAC, ALEXANDER ANDREW, business person; b. 10 December 1907 in Inverness, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, son of Mr. and Mrs. D. A. Maclsaac; m. 15 August 1931 Lillian Griffis ofSault Ste. Marie, Michigan, and they had six children, Jeana, Maitland, Lynn, Scott, Bruce, and Neil; Roman Catholic; d. 27 November 1988 in Charlottetown. Maclsaac, a Liberal, was elected to the Legislative Assembly in the general election of 1955 for 5th Queens. He was defeated in the general election of 1959. Maclsaac served as Minister of Welfare and Labour from 1958 to 1959, and was the province’s first Minister of Labour. Maclsaac was educated at Inverness Public School. He moved to the Island in the mid-1930s, where he worked as a salesperson for DeBlois Brothers and operated a grocery business. Maclsaac owned Riley’s Chewing Tobacco Company and a credit collection agency in Prince Edward Island and New Brunswick. He was a member of the Charlottetown Board of Trade and the board of governors of the Charlottetown Hospital. MacLeod was a member of the Knights of Columbus and the Gyro Club. Andrew Maclsaac died 27 November 1988 at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital., CPG 1959; PEl Journal of the Legislative Assembly 1959, p 3; Guardian 28 November 1988.