MACDONALD, Sir WILLIAM CHRISTOPHER (until 1898 he spelled his family name
and bishop; b. 15 July 1840 in Allisary, P.E.I., son of John Macdonald and Ellen Macdonald; d. 1 Dec. 1912 in Charlottetown
. Macdonald*’s Conservative governments.
Cartwright earned a reputation for probity as a banker but his financial career suffered a severe setback in
. Macdonald* appointed Bowell minister of customs, a portfolio he would retain until after the prime minister’s death. His principal task was the supervision of the main source of government revenue. As a
. Macdonald* as a Conservative party organ in March 1872. In December 1873 he was appointed an immigration agent in Ireland by the Liberal government of Alexander
and calisthenics, and he also arranged fancy dances for special occasions, such as the Toronto “kirmess” of 1891. Although his students included the children of Lieutenant Governor Donald Alexander
Charlottetown and Royalty. He would be reelected at every election until he resigned from politics in 1893. McLeod held his portfolio only until March 1880, when he was replaced by Donald
. Macdonald*], while opposing efforts to alter the form of the local legislatures and insisting that the provinces should have the sole right to levy duties on their natural resources. He was also concerned
SMITH, DONALD ALEXANDER, 1st Baron STRATHCONA and MOUNT ROYAL, HBC officer, businessman, politician, diplomat, and philanthropist
. Macdonald*, but he soon began advocating a non-partisan approach towards the redress of provincial grievances over the Canadian Pacific Railway’s monopoly, federal land administration, and the tariff
1866. On 11 Aug. 1868 he sent a report to Prime Minister Sir John A. Macdonald* on suspected Fenian activities in the
, Donald Alexander Smith undertook to purchase control of Globe Printing, apparently to silence the daily’s
returned to spend his final years in Ottawa, a city that was also the home of one of his daughters, the wife of Donald Alexander
graduation, Laird returned to Charlottetown in 1859 to found, edit, and publish the Protestant and Evangelical Witness. Renamed the Patriot in 1865, with Donald
. Macdonald*, who wanted a dependable Tory organ in Toronto to combat Brown’s Globe. The Conservative party had begun providing support to the Telegraph in 1869 at the behest of Cook and
Life and times of the Right Honourable Sir John A. Macdonald . . . (1883) by Joseph Edmund Collins
. Macdonald* and the Conservatives, who came to power in 1878, he believed that the British North America Act was superior to the American constitution because it provided for a stronger federal authority
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