Donald Alexander Macdonald, PC

Queen's Privy Council for Canada

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 (February 17, 1817 – June 10, 1896) was a Canadian

Canada

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 politician.

Born in 1817 in St. Raphael's, Ontario

South Glengarry, Ontario

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, Donald Alexander Macdonald studied at St Raphael's College under the first Catholic Bishop of Ontario, Alexander Macdonell

Alexander Macdonell (bishop)

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. He became a railway contractor and was elected as a member of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada

Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada

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 from 1857 to 1867. He was the Liberal

Liberal Party of Canada

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 Member of Parliament

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 for Glengarry

Glengarry (electoral district)

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 in the Canadian House of Commons

Canadian House of Commons

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 from 1867 to 1875, and served as Postmaster General of Canada

Postmaster General of Canada

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. In 1875 Macdonald was appointed the fourth Lieutenant Governor of Ontario

Lieutenant Governor of Ontario

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 and held that post until 1880. He died in Montreal

Montreal

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 in 1896.

He was the brother of John Sandfield Macdonald

John Sandfield Macdonald

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, the first Premier

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 of Ontario

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, and Alexander Francis Macdonald

Alexander Francis Macdonald

Alexander Francis Macdonald was a politician and railway contractor.The son of Alexander Macdonald, he was educated in Cornwall and at St Raphael's College. He settled in Cornwall. Macdonald was president of the Canada Cotton Company...

, the MP for Cornwall

Cornwall, Ontario

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 from 1874 to 1878.

Family

Hon. Donald Alexander Macdonald, P.C., and Lieutenant-Governor of Ontario, 1875-80, married Catherine Fraser, daughter of Colonel the Hon. Alexander Fraser, M.L.C. of Fraserfield.
The couple`s daughter Margaret was born at Alexandria, Ont., and educated in Montreal. She married, at Toronto, Ontario September 16th, 1875, William Hales Hingston

William Hales Hingston

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, M.D., F.R.C.S. (Lond.), who, was appointed a Commander of the Roman Order of St. Gregory (1875), was knighted by Queen Victoria in 1895, and was called to the Senate of Canada in 1896.