Speaker; and attorney-general in the brief
Brown-Dorion ministry; premier in 1862, and resigned, 1864. Formed the
first government of the Province of Ontario, 1867; defeated in the House
and resigned, 1871. =Index=: =E= Returned in elections of 1848, 50; his
discourtesy to Lord Elgin, 127-131; Hincks succeeds in humiliating him,
135-136. =B= Offered seat in Cabinet by John A. Macdonald, 100; enters
George Brown's ministry, 102; called on to form government, 1861, 142;
an enthusiastic advocate of the "double majority," 142; in Confederation
debate, 182-183; asks Brown to go on mission to Washington to discuss
reciprocity, 192, 196. =Md= Upholds principle of "double majority," but
later throws it overboard, 79; separate schools established by his
administration, 1862-1863, 82; refuses John A. Macdonald's offer of a
seat in the Cabinet, 1858, 84, 85; leads the moderate "Reformers,"
84-89; forms ministry with Sicotte, 1862, 88-89; government defeated
same year on vote of want of confidence, 89; refuses to resign, and
reconstructs government by joining forces with Brown, Dorion, and the
Rouges, 89; resigns, March, 1864, 90; objects to passing of resolutions
adopted at Quebec Conference without submitting them to the people, 119;
becomes leader of provincial government in Ontario at Confederation,
141; his character, 141-142. =T= Resigns in 1864, 68. =Bib.=: Dent,
_Can. Por._ and _Last Forty Years_; Taylor, _Brit. Am._

=Macdonell, Alexander.= Represented Lord Selkirk's interests as governor
of the Red River Settlement. Had been for some years in the employment
of the Hudson's Bay Company. Left the Red River Settlement, 1821, when
it was discovered that he had been lining his own pockets at the expense
of Selkirk and the settlers. Popularly known as _Gouverneur Sauterelle_,
or the Grasshopper Governor. =Bib.=: Bryce, _Manitoba_ and _The Romantic
Settlement of Lord Selkirk's Colonists_; Ross, _Red River Settlement_.

=Macdonell, Alexander.= =MS= Sheriff of the home district, Upper Canada,
133; Selkirk puts him in charge of the Baldoon Settlement, near Lake St.
Clair, Upper Canada, 133.

=Macdonell, Alexander.= =MS= Sent by North West Company, with Duncan
Cameron, to Red River, to break up the Red River Settlement, 172-173;
leads attack on the colonists, 175. =Bib.=: Bryce, _The Romantic
Settlement of Lord Selkirk's Colonists_.

=Macdonell, Alexander= (1769-1840). Born at Glen Urquhart, Scotland.
Raised a Roman Catholic reg