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John William Macdonald
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Agricultural implements dealer.
Born in Australia on 15 August 1855, son of Archibald and Sarah MacDonald, he was educated at the Brantford Collegiate Institute at Brantford, Ontario. He began working as a druggist with Adolph Bennett at Brantford in 1876. He came to Manitoba in 1883 and engaged in collecting for his father, who was in business at Emerson, shipping in horses and implements from Ontario and Chicago.
In 1876, he married Hannah Maria Jackson (?-?) at Brantford, Ontario and they had five sons and five daughters. He served as Mayor of Emerson (1892-1894) and an Alderman at Portage la Prairie (1911). He was a member of the AF & AM, AOUW, Conservative party, and Presbyterian church, and his recreations included riding, curling, and lawn bowling. He died at Portage la Prairie on 15 January 1949 and was buried in the Portage Hillside Cemetery.
Who’s Who in Western Canada: A Biographical Dictionary of Notable Living Men and Women of Western Canada, Volume 1, edited by C. W. Parker, Vancouver: Canadian Press Association, 1911.
“John MacDonald of Portage dies at 93 years,” Winnipeg Free Press, 17 January 1949. [Manitoba Legislative Library, Biographical Scrapbook B10, page 61]
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 27 May 2024
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