传记
He joined the Hudsons Bay Company.
He came to Victoria, Vancouver Island in 1851 in the bark Tory and was employed as a clerk for the HBC.
He established a salmon fishery on San Juan Island in May 1851. The fish were salted and packed in barrels. This was perhaps the start of the fishing industry in British Columbia.
He left the HBC in 1858.
He served as Gold Commisioner, Collector of Customs and Postmaster in Victoria in 1858.
He married Catherine Balfour Reid, second daughter of Captain James M. Reid and they had three daughters.
He sat as a Member of the Legislative Assembly of Vancouver Island representing Sooke in 1859-66 and as a Member of the Legislative Council of the United Colony of British Columbia 1866-71.
He was elected as Mayor of Victoria in 1867.
He was appointed as a Colonial Magistrate.
He was later appointed as the first three Senators from British Columbia on 10/12/1871 as a Conservative.
He helped to organize the non-sectarian school system.
He married Catherine Balfour Reid at London UK in 1857.
军事服役
He recruited the first company of militia (mounted and foot) to protect settlers from feared attacks by natives as a local militia Captain in 1856.
In 1856 he accompanied Governor Douglas with a militia force in H.M.S. Trincomalee to Cowichan Bay to arrest a native who had shot and wounded a settler.
命名地物
Macdonald Point (BC)
参考文献
- Lyons, Cicely (1969)
- Walbran, Captain John T. (1909)
- Parker, C.W. (Ed.) (1911)
- Parker, C.W. (Ed.) (1911)
- Mallandaine, Edward (1887)
- Wallace, W. Stewart (Ed.) 1978
- (2001) www.parl.gc.ca/information/about/people/Senate
- Green, Valerie (1992)
