MACDONALD, Sir WILLIAM CHRISTOPHER (until 1898 he spelled his family name McDonald)
MACDONALD, Sir DONALD ALEXANDER, militia and army officer; b
the terms of union with Canada. They did, Macdonald, G. W. Howlan, and William Wilfred Sullivan
departmental business to the northwest and Manitoba in 1877. The company of his friend William Watson Ogilvie* had shipped its first load of
May 1841 in Toronto, son of William James Loudon and Elizabeth Ericssen Farrell; m. 29 Aug. 1872 Julia McDougall, daughter of John
. Macdonald*’s Conservative federal government in the Riel affair [see Louis Riel*]. He opposed a motion to congratulate British
power in Ottawa. The next day William Mulock*, the
1846 in St John’s, son of William Lash and Margaret Fannon; m. in or before 1871 Elizabeth Ann Miller, and they had three sons and a
John Sandfield Macdonald*. Langmuir would hold the position through the critical years when the new province was developing its
William Muirhead died in 1884, the Acadian élite, which had become more aggressive as a result of its first two conventions, was determined not to miss its chance. Landry subtly threatened Macdonald with a
. Macdonald*, and the “reluctant maiden” joined the confederation on
KING, WILLIAM FREDERICK, surveyor, astronomer, and civil servant; b
Keefer was born to engineering. His father, through commercial association with William Hamilton Merritt*, was first president
James Robert Stratton, provincial secretary in the Liberal government of George William Ross, against bribery charges made in 1903 by Robert Roswell Gamey, a Conservative mla
. 23 Jan. 1832 on Skeoch Farm near Bannockburn, Scotland, second son of William Jaffray and Margaret Heugh; m
to Montreal in September 1893 and considered Hébert’s masterpiece, and to Sir John A. Macdonald*, the model for which was
an Anglo-French modus vivendi governing the lobster fishery [see James Baird; Sir William
. Macdonald*, Howell realized soon after his arrival that the policies of the national party and the circumstances of Manitoba were not in harmony. An unsuccessful candidate in a provincial by-election in
strengthened. Led by James McDonald and Senator William Miller, and abetted by Bishop John Cameron*, they prepared “a little conspiracy for the