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John Lorne McDougall was born in Tayside, Ontario in 1900 and educated at the University of Toronto where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1921 and a Master of Arts in 1923. He did further post-graduate work at Harvard University and the London School of Economics. He began his teaching career as an instructor in economics at the University of Texas during 1925-26 and at the University of Toronto during 1926-27. In 1927 he left teaching to become a statistician with Canadian General Securities where he remained until 1931 before returning to teaching. He joined Queen's University in 1933 and remained until his retirement in 1965. He died at Kingston in 1986.

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Clergyman, Halifax, N.S.

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P.E. McDonald is a photographer based in Toronto, Ontario

J.S. McDonald was a photographer based in Springhill NS.

Captain, Kingston, Ont.

The Hon. John McDonald of Gananoque, M.L.C., was a son of John McDonald and Emily Cameron of Blair Athol, Perthshire, and was born at, or near, Saratoga, New York, in February of 1787 shortly after the family's arrival in America. He commenced business as a merchant in Troy, New York, but in 1817 removed to Gananoque where his brother Charles had previously opened a store and built the first saw mill and grist mill in the settlement. In business with his brother, under the name of C & J McDonald, the firm engaged in an extensive lumber trade and in 1826 erected the largest flour mill in the province.
John McDonald was appointed a member of the Legislative Council of Upper canada in February 1839 and during the important deates of that year supported the proposal to unite the two provinces. After Union he was again appointed a member of the Council but was unseated in March 1848 because of non-attendance during two successive sessions of Parliament.
McDonald took a leading part in an important canal-building enterprise in the 1830's and 1840's. He was appointed to the Board of Commissioners for the Improvement of the Navigation of the River St. Lawrence in May 1836 and became President of the Board two years later. In that capacity he presided over the complettion of the Cornwall Canal and building the four Williamsburg Canals.
McDonald held at various time the offices of Magistrate, School Superintendent and Postmaster for the town of Gananoque.
In 1831 McDonald married Henrietta Maria Mallory and had at least two sons and two daughters. He died at Gananoque in September 1860.

J.H. McDonald was a student at Queen's University.

Herbert Stone McDonald, the son of John McDonald of Gananoque, was a lawyer and an MPP for South Leeds. He graduated from Queen's University with a BA in 1959, and MA in 1861. He married Emma Matilda "Tillie" Jones in 1864, and had two children, Katherine and John. He was called to the bar in 1863, and practiced law in Brockville, Ontario. He served on Brockville Town Council from 1870 to 1871, and was elected MPP for South Leeds in 1871-1874. He left this post to become a judge for the county court of Leeds and Grenville in October 1873. After Tillie passed away in 1908, he remarried in 1919. McDonald passed away in 1921.