The Maritime Engine Co, Ltd. was incorporated in 1909 to manufacture steam engines based on a series of patents granted to James Strickland and Albert L. Mowry and assigned to H. R. McLellan. Other than the original announcements of the company chartering, we cannot find a single other mention and we can only assume that the company was stillborn.

Information Sources

• 1909-04-29 The Iron Trade Review.

  A charter has been granted to the Maritime Engine Co., Ltd., St. John, N.B., through Daniel J. Purdy, James R. Ferguson, Joseh Court, Harold Climo and other of St. John, and John A. Calhoun of Savannah, Ga. The company has a capital stock of $125,000, and is authorized to construct, rebuild and repair engines, boats and other marine craft, boilers, etc. The company will handle the Strickland-Mowry engine and other patent rights controlled by H. R. McLellan.

• A search for information on Harry R. McLellan turned up a fair number of passing mentions. Until about 1900 he was a small-scale lumber baron. In the early 1900s he ran an ice-harvesting businesses that was ended by a fire and subsequent lawsuits over insurance. He then became Commissioner of Public Safety for Saint John, where he earned himself a reputation for autocratic behavior. In 1922 he became mayor of Saint John (where he re-appointed himself as Commissioner of Public Safety); he only lasted a year before losing his position in an election. He is now remembered, according to one blog, as Harry "The Despicable" McLellan. He seems to have retired from public life at that point. He died in 1936.