James Emmanuel MacDonald

MACDONALD, JAMES EMMANUEL, shipbuilder and merchant; b. 5 January 1842 in Georgetown, son of Angus and Mary MacDonald of Seal River; m. 4 July 1877 Georgina Stephens, and there were no children; Roman Catholic; d. 1 October 1903 in Boston. MacDonald, a Conservative, was first elected to the House of Assembly in a by-election in 1873 for 3rd Kings. He was re-elected in the general elections of 1876 and 1879 and in a by-election held in November 1890, which he won by acclamation. MacDonald was elected to the Legislative Assembly in the general election of 1893 for 3rd Kings. He was re-elected in the general elections of 1897 and 1900. He died while sitting as a Member of the House of Assembly. MacDonald was a shipbuilder and merchant in Cardigan. He served on the Dairymen's Board of Trade and on the provincial Dairymen's Association. For a short time, he was Commissioner of Public Works. He died on 1 October 1903, while on a trip to Boston. On the day of his death, the flag at the Provincial Building flew at half-mast in his honour. Georgina MacDonald, the daughter of Patrick Stephens of Orwell, was born in 1851 and died 23 September 1929.