James McDonald, MP

1828 - 1912  (84 years)

• Name	James McDonald  [1]
  Suffix	MP
  Birth	1 Jul 1828	Bridgeville, Nova Scotia   [2, 3]
  Gender	Male
  Death	3 Oct 1912	Halifax, Nova Scotia   [2, 3]
  Burial	Fairview Cemetery, Halifax, Nova Scotia   [3]
  Person ID	I35009	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	17 Jul 2019

  
  

  Father	Alexander McDonald
  Mother	Janet Fraser
  Family ID	F20578	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Jane Mortimer   d. 1902
  Marriage	23 Jan 1855  [3]
  Family ID	F20579	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	17 Jul 2019

  
  

• Notes

  Nova Scotia provincial MP 1859-1872. Federal MP 1872-1881. Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada, 1878-1881; Chief Justice of Nova Scotia 1881-1904. Detailed biography here at the Dictionary of Canadian Biography: http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio.php?id_nbr=7579

  
  

• Sources

  [S5755] Urquhart and Glenmoriston: Olden Times in a Highland Parish by William MacKay. Inverness, Scotland: The Northern Counties Newspaper and Printing and Publishing Company, Limited, 1893. [S5756] Lords of the North by James K. McDonell and Robert B. Campbell. Burnstown, Ontario: General Store Publishing House, 1997., year only. [S2180] Dictionary of Canadian Biography.