Pictou Advocate, 30 April 1910 p1

John Park McQueen, a former Academy student, son of the late John D. McQueen, County Clerk, has won the North British Society Bursary at Dalhousie.   Young McQueen is a Pictou Academy graduate and adds another to the long list of Academy students who have distinguished themselves at Dalhousie.

Pictou Advocate, 14 September 1917 p9

In the casualty lists as published on Wednesday appears the name of John P. McQueen as being gassed.  This we presume to be the former teacher of the high school staff who enlisted last year and has not been long in reaching the front.  We trust the injuries or illness, which ever is the proper term, will not be of lasting or serious nature. - Eastern Chronicle. 

Pictou Advocate, 22 March 1918 p1

The death occurred recently of Mr. John P. McQueen, formerly of the New Glasgow teaching staff, as the result of wounds received in action.  Deceased went across with a siege battery and was severely wounded.  He was a son of the late John Duncan McQueen, County Clerk for some years.  He was a graduate of Dalhousie, and one year to complete his legal course, and was a young man of ability.  He was very popular and his death will be heard of with deep regret. 

** John Park McQueen was the brother of Susan McQueen, RN. Susan trained and worked as a nurse at New Bedford, Massachusetts before returning to Pictou County to take up the position of superintendent of the Pictou Hospital from 1928 to 1953.