Donald Alexander Macdonald

The Honorable Donald Alexander Macdonald


Member of the Canadian Parliament for Glengarry
In office September 20, 1867 – May 18, 1875
Preceded by	new riding
Succeeded by	Archibald McNab
4th Lieutenant Governor of Ontario
In office May 18, 1875 – June 30, 1880
Monarch	Victoria
Governor General	The Earl of Dufferin Marquess of Lorne
Premier	Oliver Mowat
Preceded by	John Willoughby Crawford
Succeeded by	John Beverley Robinson

Personal details
Born	(1817-02-17)February 17, 1817 St. Raphael, Upper Canada
Died	June 10, 1896(1896-06-10) (aged 79) Montreal, Quebec
Nationality	Canadian
Political party	Liberal
Relations	Alexander Francis Macdonald, brother John Sandfield Macdonald, brother

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 Legislative Assembly of the Province of 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 the fourth 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.

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 16, 1875, William Hales Hingston, 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.^[1]

References

↑ Morgan, Henry James Types of Canadian women and of women who are or have been connected with Canada : (Toronto, 1903)

"Donald Alexander Macdonald". Dictionary of Canadian Biography (online ed.). University of Toronto Press. 1979–2016.

Donald Alexander Macdonald – Parliament of Canada biography

Postmasters General

¹The office of Postmaster General was abolished when the Post Office Department became a Crown Corporation known as the Canada Post Corporation on October 16, 1981.

Lieutenant Governors of Ontario
Post-Confederation (1867–present)	Stisted Howland Crawford D. A. Macdonald J. B. Robinson Campbell Kirkpatrick Gzowski Mowat Clark Gibson Hendrie Clarke Cockshutt Ross Mulock H. A. Bruce Matthews Lawson Breithaupt MacKay Rowe W. R. Macdonald McGibbon Aird Alexander Jackman Weston Bartleman Onley Dowdeswell
Province of Canada (1841–67)*	Clitherow Jackson Bagot Metcalfe Cathcart J. Bruce E. W. Head Monck
Upper Canada (1791–1841)	Simcoe Russell Hunter Grant Gore Brock Sheaffe de Rottenburg Drummond Murray F. P. Robinson Smith Maitland Colborne Bond Head Arthur Thomson
British Province of Quebec (1759–91)*	Amherst Murray Carleton Haldimand Carleton (2nd time)
* The Crown's representative from 1759 to 1791, and from 1841 to 1866 held the office and rank of Governor-General.

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