MacDONALD, JAMES (1819-1905)

MACDONALD, CHARLES, professor of mathematics; b

emerging friendship with Sir John A. Macdonald* decisively guided his future

caught the eye of John A. Macdonald*, the conservative attorney general for Upper Canada in the succeeding coalition

. Norquay appears to have cultivated Harrison’s fondness for Prime Minister Sir John A. Macdonald* and was attentive to his

. Macdonald*, desiring to maintain a coalition government, invited him to join the cabinet in 1868 to replace William Pearce

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

the Law Society of Upper Canada in November 1836. In January he had become an articled clerk in the office of John A. Macdonald

Ferguson, a member of the provincial government, noted in a letter to Prime Minister Sir John A. Macdonald* that

Wright*, a labour organizer and Tory stalwart, went so far in June 1886 as to warn Prime Minister Sir John A. Macdonald

had a hand in developing the plans for the Macdonald Chemistry Building, opened in 1898, of which he was the proud director until his death in 1907. He devoted his spare time to gardening, woodworking

, and sought to impress on Prime Minister Sir John A. Macdonald* the importance of a small but efficient militia, smaller

, in the litigation arising from the scandal known as the “£10,000 job”; in Macdonell v. Macdonald (1858) he prosecuted his old friend John A

1877 opposition leader Sir John A. Macdonald* received a copy of The Irishman in Canada. The accompanying note

Macdonald*, the tobacco magnate, who had shown philanthropy towards educational initiatives, especially in industrial arts. Mills was now joined in these efforts by Hoodless, who believed that agriculture

. Prime Minister John A. Macdonald*, with his customary political shrewdness, hurriedly came to the rescue of the indicted men by

. 1873 the government of Sir John A. Macdonald* resigned, and in the election of January 1874, the Conservatives were

in 1861 seconded John A. Macdonald

Mowat; in Ottawa he became such a staunch supporter of Sir John A. Macdonald* that most of his contemporaries