When James A. McAdam opened the doors of one of Fredericton’s first funeral homes on Carleton Street in 1899, it seems unlikely that he could have envisioned the business more than a century later, still bearing his name and still demonstrating the values he and three generations of his family would instill in it.
P. Edison Hamilton suspects that, while the original Mr. McAdam might find it quite a different business these days, he would be proud of what his sons and grandson accomplished after he retired. Recently retired as the firm’s Managing Director, Ed Hamilton joined McAdam’s in 1980 and practiced his trade for several years at the side of Walter McAdam, the founder’s grandson who retired in 1989. After nine decades under his family’s management Walter, upon his retirement, chose to entrust the enterprise to Ed Hamilton and the MacMackin family, another southern New Brunswick clan with nearly twenty years and two generations of funeral service behind them.