Donald Macmaster (Canadian politician)
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Donald Macmaster (September 3, 1846 – March 3, 1922) was an Ontario lawyer and political figure. He represented Glengarry in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1879 to 1882 and in the Canadian House of Commons as a Conservative member from 1883 to 1887.
He was born in Williamstown, Glengarry County, Canada West in 1846. He studied law at McGill University. He was called to the Quebec bar in 1871 and set up practice in Montreal. Macmaster served as Crown Prosecutor for several cases. He was called to the Ontario bar and named Queen's Counsel in 1882. In 1880, he married Janet Macdonald; he married Ella Virginia DeFord in 1890 after the death of his first wife. Macmaster was defeated in the 1887 federal election.
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- Political biography from the Library of Parliament
- Member's parliamentary history for the Legislative Assembly of Ontario
- The Canadian parliamentary companion, 1883 JA Gemmill
- The Canadian men and women of the time : a handbook of Canadian biography HJ Morgan (1898)
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