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John Alexander Macdonald (1815-1891) was born in Scotland, and moved to Upper Canada with his parents in 1820, settling in Kingston. He was educated at the Midland District Grammar School, a private co- educational school in Kingston, and at age fifteen began articling in law with George Mackenzie. He was called to the bar in 1836, and from 1843 to 1849 he practiced in partnership with Alexander Campbell. In the 1850s he practiced with Archibald John Macdonnell and Robert Mortimer Wilson. In 1839 he was appointed solicitor for the Commercial Bank of the Midland District. He was elected to the Kingston Town Council as an alderman in 1843 and in 1844 he was elected to the provincial government of Upper Canada for the riding of Kingston. He remained in that seat provincially until 1867, and then federally from 1867 to 1874. From 1847 to 1848 he acted as Receiver-General and Commissioner for Crown lands. In 1854, he served as Attorney-General of Upper Canada. From 1854 to 1862, he acted as co- premier of Upper Canada. He was closely involved in the formulation of the British North America Act, forming the union of Upper and Lower Canada, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick in 1867, and was also involved in the inclusion of other provinces into Confederation at later dates. He also served as the first Prime Minister of Canada. Macdonald also served as head of the Department of Justice from 1867 to 1873. His party lost the election in 1874, and Macdonald lost his own seat in Kingston, although he was later returned in a by-election. He returned as Prime Minister in 1878, and took on the portfolio of the Department of Interior Affairs. He and his government were re- elected in 1882 and 1887. Macdonald died in 1891.

Carrie Holmes MacGillivray was born in 1871 in Williamstown ON and was the grandaughter of the Honorable John MacGillivray who was a partner in the North-West Company. She moved to Toronto in 1912 when her father died, and became a clerk-typist at the Provincial Archives of Ontario where she worked for thirteen years. Ms. MacGillivray wrote several novels, one of which was published: "The Shadow of Tradition: a Tale of Old Glengarry" (1927). Her other known unpublished manuscripts were "Fifty years ago, a true story of the Canadian North West Rebellion" and "The Prairie Star : a saga of the western plains".

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Alexander Mackenzie was born in Scotland and was a stone mason when he emigrated to Canada in 1842. By 1850 he became an active supporter of George Brown and Secretary of the Lambton Reform Committee. For two years, 1852-1854, he was editor of a Reform newspaper, the Lambton Shield. He was first elected to the Legislative Assembly in 1861. He was elected to the House of Commons in the first federal election in 1867 and he remained a Member of the Commons until his death in 1892. He was Prime Minister of Canada and Minister of Public Works, 1873-1878. After the defeat of his government he continued to lead the Liberal party until ill health forced him to resign from that post in 1880. Mackenzie was married twice and was survived by one daughter.

Donald Gordon McKenzie was Minister of Agriculture for Manitoba. He was born in Brandon on 1887. He attended Turriff School near the village of Forrest, then school in Brandon and Manitoba Agricultural College in Winnipeg.

Robert McLaughlin had his roots in Tyrone County, Ireland. By the mid 1800's he had been "lured" to the Peterborough area of Ontario with the promise of free farm land. In 1867 or so, McLaughlin built himself a horse carriage. So good was his design and craftsmanship that the neighbours asked him to build carriages for them. As knowledge of the quality of McLaughlin's carriage spread, demand increased. In 1869 he founded the McLaughlin Carriage Company in response to the demand for his carriages. In 1876, seeking better access to markets, he moved his business to Oshawa. The company was owned by McLaughlin and two of his three sons, Sam and George, both of whom started at the bottom of their father's carriage business as sweepers. In 1899 the business was temporarily relocated in Gananoque when the business was destroyed by fire. With the advent of the automobile George and his brother, along with George Hezzelwood, formed the McLaughlin Motor Car Company Limited in 1907. For a time the family continued to produce carriages. Then, in 1915, Robert McLaughlin sold the carriage works to Jim Thudhope of Orillia, Ontario. In writing at the time of his difficulty in letting the works go, he simply observed: "[The] gasoline engine [is] at present working a revolution in the horse-drawn vehicle trade."

Norman MacLeod was a clergyman.

MacPherson, Crane and Company were forwarders (bookbinders) based in Kingston, Ontario.

Ross Milton McRae was born at Morven, Ontario in 1885. He attended city schools and Kingston Collegiate Institute. After working as a bell-hop in Toronto, he entered the employ of Chown Limited where he remained for sixty years. He started as an invoice clerk and went on to become bookkeeper, secretary of the board and one of the directors of the company. He was married to Bessie Mander.