Campbell*, his “good friend” and “ally” in the cabinet of Sir John A. Macdonald*. Provincially Rathbun backed the Liberal

Sir Hugh Allan*], he encouraged him to take the plunge into federal politics under the leadership of Alexander

department believed that he incited indigenous people to express dissatisfaction; in 1877, they gave his post to Allan Macdonald

strength of Lower Canadian votes [see Sir John A. Macdonald*], helped to unite Brownite, Hincksite, and Clear Grit

Railway were, however, consistently disallowed by the federal government [see Sir John A. Macdonald*]. Meanwhile

business in Montrose. In 1857 the Glasgow firm of Gilmour and Company sent him to Chelsea, Lower Canada, to manage its timber operations on the Ottawa and Gatineau rivers [see Allan

[see Sir John A. Macdonald*; Sir Hugh Allan

, Allan Pollok. The Macdonald was to be the main library of Dalhousie University until the 1970s. It still stands, a handsome monument to a great man

MACDONALD, ALLAN (he may also have signed MacDonald and McDonald), farmer, rancher

economic development. For much the same reason the Leader championed the coalition engineered with the Conservatives in 1854 [see Sir Allan Napier

the resistance of 1885 Kā-kīwistāhāw made it clear that he would uphold his treaty obligations. Indian agent Allan

traditional political network based on Tilley, who had entered Sir John A. Macdonald*’s Conservative government in 1867, was vital

western part of Upper Canada, and John Sandfield Macdonald*’s supporters in the east. Howland was one of the handful of Toronto

Connor* defended J. G. Bowes, Gwynne’s railway companion, in the litigation arising from the scandal known as the “£10,000 job”; in Macdonell v. Macdonald (1858) he

the Pacific Scandal [see Sir John A. Macdonald*], Greenway contested the federal constituency of South Huron for

. Grant’s family attended an anti-burgher church until 1853 when they switched to the Kirk church where Allan Pollok was minister. Within months Grant was one of four beneficiaries of that church’s “Young

establishing an early connection with John Macdonald*, a leading Toronto wholesaler and a fellow Methodist. (Eaton had converted to Methodism in 1858

. Macdonald* and in which the leader of the opposition, Sir Charles Tupper*, had played an important role, served Dobell’s interests. In fact

the route originally recommended by Dawson, was assigned to John Allan Snow*. The slow pace of 1868 quickened suddenly the following year