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Profile The Luck of a Low-Grader
The Northern Miner | 2 January 1987
Dennis MacLeod has this thing about ore grades. He likes to find ways of making money at grades so low that most of the mining fraternity would turn its nose up at it. It’s no wonder he was attracted to Pamour Inc., a company that was already making gold from one of the lowest grade underground mines in the world when Australian-based Jimberlana Minerals took control of it in 1985. It was MacLeod, already a director of Jimberlana, who was chosen to run the Timmins gold producer after the takeover. Within a year he had taken control of both Giant Yellowknife and soon-to-be-producing csa Minerals, making Pamour one of the largest gold producers in Canada.
Staking a claim in the arts
The Herald | 1 June 1990
The most intriguing recipient at this week's Royal ABSA awards for businesses putting their money behind Scottish artistic endeavour was Toronto-based Doelcam Mining Corporation. Chairman Dennis MacLeod (yes, that's Doelcam backwards) picked up his award from Prince Charles for backing the Eden Court Theatre's 21-venue tour of The Gold Of Kildonan, a recently commissioned play about the gold rush that brought Klondyke fever to that lovely Sutherland strath in 1869.
Eden Court Theatre, Inverness
The monarch of the golden glen SNP benefactor Dennis MacLeod traces his nationalistic spirit to ancestral memories of the Clearances
The Herald | 16th August 1998
Dennis MacLeod lives in an ancient house called Scatwell, a word of Norse derivation which means ''the place of taxes'' - not the most sympathetic address for a multi-millionaire. ''Probably it's the last spot on earth where a businessman would want to settle.'' MacLeod says this jocularly, for the name can't ever have been much of a deterrent to the wealthy.
Grasping the Thistle
A Tale of Two Books
Scottish Review of Books | October 29 2009
I have before me two books of the same name. They are called Grasping The Thistle but they are very different works, the first being what Michael Russell and his co-author, businessman Dennis MacLeod, really wanted to publish, the second what a political party allowed them to publish.
Review: Grasping the Thistle
Scottish Affairs | Winter 2007
It would be easy, so very easy, to tease. In truth, the authors stick their chins out so far that it seems almost churlish not to land a light cuff or two. Also, it seems instinctively Scottish.
Highland Clearances Memorial Statue
Memorial statue marks clearances
BBC | 23 July 2007
A memorial statue to those affected by the Highland clearances has been officially unveiled. First Minister Alex Salmond attended a ceremony to remember the clearances in Helmsdale, on the Sutherland coast. The 10ft-high bronze "Exiles" statue commemorates the people who were cleared from the area by landowners and left to begin new lives overseas. Canadian mining millionaire Dennis Macleod, who was behind the scheme, also attended the ceremony.
Clearances statue unveiled abroad
BBC | 7 September 2008
A statue marking the achievements of those who left Scotland for Canada during the Highland Clearances has been unveiled by the environment minister. More than 300 people attended the ceremony, which was carried out by Mike Russell in Winnipeg on Saturday. It is the first statue of its kind to be erected outside Scotland and is a twin of a sculpture called The Exiles, sited in Helmsdale in Sutherland.
Obituaries
The Herald | 12 May 2019
Obituary: Dennis MacLeod, mining tycoon and major funder of the SNP
Donald (Dennis) MacLeod was born in Helmsdale, a descendant of people cleared from the nearby Strath of Kildonan. After graduating as a chemist, he began his career at the Dounreay nuclear plant in Caithness.
The Press and Journal | 13 May 2019
Crofter’s son who grew up in poverty and became millionaire
Mr MacLeod was born in Helmsdale in 1939, a descendant of people cleared from the nearby Strath of Kildonan. He grew up in poverty after his father was killed three weeks before the end of World War II, and he and his two siblings were raised by his widowed mother.
The National | 1 May 2019
Dennis MacLeod – An appreciation of an inspiring Scot
I FELT, and still feel, a sharp pang of grief when I heard on Friday evening that my friend Dennis MacLeod had died in Canada after a struggle with liver cancer. Losing a committed nationalist before they have seen their labours rewarded by independence is always hard.