. Macdonald*. Provincially Rathbun backed the Liberal governments of Oliver Mowat and Arthur Sturgis

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

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

Upper Canada’s separate schools, which passed on the strength of Lower Canadian votes [see Sir John A. Macdonald

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

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

Presbyterian College at Pine Hill, 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

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

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

. Macdonald*’s Conservative government in 1867, was vital, the more so since he was the cabinet minister responsible for New Brunswick. Despite the close connection between the provincial Liberals and the

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

, 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

from funds obtained through what would soon break as the Pacific Scandal [see Sir John A. Macdonald*], Greenway

. 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

with John Macdonald*, a leading Toronto wholesaler and a fellow Methodist. (Eaton had

and Canada. The project, which had been put forward by the cabinet of Sir John A. Macdonald* and in which the leader of

segment from Lake Superior to Lake of the Woods. The section from there to Upper Fort Garry (Winnipeg), along the route originally recommended by Dawson, was assigned to John Allan