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Sir Hugh John Macdonald, PC (March 13, 1850 – March 29, 1929) was the only surviving son of the first prime minister of Canada, John A. Macdonald. He too was a politician, serving as a member of the House of Commons of Canada and a federal cabinet minister, and briefly as the eighth premier of Manitoba .
Sir Hugh John Macdonald, lawyer, politician, magistrate, premier of Man (b at Kingston, Canada W 13 Mar 1850; d at Winnipeg 29 Mar 1929), the only surviving son of Sir John A. MACDONALD. Educated at the University of Toronto, he was called to the Ontario Bar in 1872.
Macdonald was educated at the Queen’s College School in Kingston and at the University of Toronto, from which he graduated ba in 1869. He then studied law, first in Ottawa and later with Robert Alexander Harrison* in Toronto. After he was called to the bar in 1872, he practised, usually in partnership with his father, in Toronto and Kingston.
Shocked and devastated, Hugh John sent their young daughter Daisy to live with her grandfather so Hugh John could rebuild his life. By 1883, Macdonald, 33, settled in Winnipeg, but travelled to Toronto to marry his second wife Agnes Vankoughnet (later referred to as Lady Agnes Macdonald).
Hugh John Macdonald. Click to enlarge. Born at Kingston, Ontario on 13 March 1850, the only surviving son of Sir John A. Macdonald and Isabella Clark, he was educated Queen’s College (Kingston) and the University of Toronto (BA 1869).
Jul 24, 2020 · The Resistance disagreed with the Hudson’s Bay Company selling Rupert’s Land to the Canadian Government. This blog post looks at Hugh John Macdonald’s involvement in both the Wolseley Expedition of 1870 and the North-West Rebellion.
In 1896 he joined the short-lived Tupper government as minister of the interior. After the courts overturned his election, he became leader of the Manitoba Cons...
