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Encyclopedia > Donald Alexander Macdonald

The Honourable Donald Alexander Macdonald, PC (February 17, 1817-June 10, 1896) was a Canadian politician.


Born in 1817 in St Raphael's, Ontario, Donald Alexander Macdonald studied at St Raphael's College under the first Catholic Bishop of Ontario, Alexander Macdonell. He became a railway contractor and was elected as a member of the Assembly of Upper Canada from 1857 to 1867. He was the Liberal Member of Parliament for Glengarry in the Canadian House of Commons from 1867 to 1875, and served as Postmaster General of Canada. In 1875 Macdonald was appointed Lieutenant Governor of Ontario and held that post until 1880. He died in Montreal in 1896.


He was the brother of John Sandfield Macdonald, the first Premier of Ontario, and Alexander Francis Macdonald, the MP for Cornwall from 1874 to 1878.

Preceded by:
John Willoughby Crawford
List of Lieutenant Governors of Ontario Succeeded by:
John Beverley Robinson

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