Researching Alexander Macdonald
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The name Alexander means "Helper and defender of mankind" and is of Greek origin.
Records of Alexander Macdonald on Ancestry
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Alexander Macdonald and the Macdonald Genealogy
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Macdonald Family History Databases
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Some Famous People called Alexander Macdonald
Alexander Francis Macdonald
Alexander Francis Macdonald (1818 – April 12, 1913) was a politician and railway contractor.
The son of Alexander Macdonald, he was educated in Cornwall and at St Raphael's College. He settled in Cornwall. Macdonald was president of the Canada Cotton Company. After being elected in the 1874 election on January 22, he was unseated by petition on September 7, 1874, and re-elected on October 20 the same year. Macdonald did not run in the 1878 election. His brothers, John Sandfield Macdonald and Donald Alexander Macdonald, were also Members of Parliament.
Macdonald never married. He died in Cornwall at the age of 95.
Source: Alexander Francis Macdonald, Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaAlexander Macdonald (Manitoba politician)
Alexander Macdonald (1 November 1844 – 28 August 1928) was a Canadian politician, the 12th Mayor of Winnipeg in 1892.
Macdonald was born in Pitlochry, Scotland and moved to Canada in 1868, eventually settling in Winnipeg in 1871. He contributed to the establishment of the Manitoba Free Press newspaper in 1872, among his numerous commercial activities. He headed the Winnipeg-based A. Macdonald & Co. whose market extended throughout western Canada, between Fort William and Vancouver. He also became president of the Great-West Life Insurance Company in 1894.
He served as Winnipeg's mayor for one year, 1892. In 1910, the Winnipeg Telegram reported that he was one of that city's 19 millionaires.
Source: Alexander Macdonald (Manitoba politician), Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaAlexander Macdonald (British Columbia politician)
Alexander Barrett Macdonald (21 October 1918 – 5 March 2014) was a Canadian politician who served for several years in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia and briefly in the House of Commons of Canada. He was a barrister and solicitor by career.
The son of Malcolm Archibald Macdonald, Macdonald was educated at the University of British Columbia and Osgoode Hall. He worked with the Department of Munitions and Supplies in Ottawa during World War II. During that time, he married Dorothy Ann Lewis. After the war, he served as secretary for M. J. Coldwell and then practised law in Ontario for a short time. In 1948, he opened his own practice in Vancouver.
He was elected to the Canadian Parliament in the riding of Vancouver Kingsway in the 1957 general election as a member of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation. In the following year, he was defeated by John Ferguson Browne of the Progressive Conservative party in the 1958 election.
He was first elected to the B.C. legislature in the 1960 general election as the member for Vancouver East, and held this seat until his retirement in 1986. In 1972 he became Attorney General of British Columbia in the New Democratic Party government led by Dave Barrett and held this position until the NDP's defeat in the 1975 general election. He wrote three books on politics and law: My Dear Legs, Alex in Wonderland, and Outrage: Canada's Justice System on Trial .
His wife of 64 years died in 2009. He died at the age of 95 on 5 March 2014.
Source: Alexander Macdonald (British Columbia politician), Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaOther names that sound a bit like Macdonald
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