PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND.

he went to Britain and in the following spring brought out a shipload of bricks with which he erected a new residence, with barn and stables all of brick, these being the first brick buildings on the Island.

He had a family of twelve sons and three daughters, and his death occurred in 1833, at the age of eighty-eight years.

His son, Hugh McDonald, the father of the subject of this sketch, inherited the Pan- mure Island residence and property, as well as the chancery case. He was a prominent man in the public life and affairs of the prov- ince. As soon as Catholic disabilities to hold office were removed by the passage of the Emancipation Act, he was elected a mem- ber of the Assembly and appointed a justice of the peace and collector of customs and ex- cise for the district of Three Rivers. At a later period he was high sheriff for the prov- ince and up to the time of his death held an influential and respected position in the com- munity. During his later years he resided at Georgetown, where he died on November 10. 1857. at the age of seventy years. leaving a family of three sons and one daughter by his wife, Catherine Macdonald, whom he married in Scotland in 1826.

The eldest of these was Andrew A.. who received his education in the public schools and also from a private tutor. At the age of fifteen he entered the store just then

opened at Georgetown by a cousin and soon -

was taken as a partner. On his cousin's death, in 1851, he bought his share and con- tinued business, taking in his two brothers. Archibald J. and Augustine C., as partners and engaging extensively in developing the resources of the province by shipbuilding, prosecuting the fisheries, and exporting the various productions of the county until 1873, when he removed to Charlottetown and re—

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tired from the firm of A. A. Macdonald & Brothers, which now is conducted under the old firm name by his brother Archibald and one of his sons. .

In 1853-4 Andrew A. Macdonald was elected for the representation of Georgetown district in the House of Assembly and in 1863 he was elected a member of the Legis— lative Council, where he held a seat until 1873, when he was appointed postmaster general of the province. He held that posi- tion when the Island joined the Dominion Confederacy in the same year and his official designation was thenceforward postmaster for Charlottetown with supervision of all offices of that service within the province. In 1864 he was appointed’one of the dele- gates to the convention held at Charlotte- town for the purpose of forming a maritime union. Failure in that object then resulted in the historical Quebec conference in October of the same year, where he was one of the delegates and where the first terms of con— federation were formulated, and these, with some few modifications are the basis of the

,Constitution of the Dominion of Canada.

The delegates to the Quebec conference are referred to as the “Fathers of Confedera- tion.” Only three of them are now (1905) living, namely: Sir Charles Tupper, Bart., G. C. M. G., C. B., Sir Hector Langevin, K. C. M. G., C. B., and Senator Macdonald.

In i884 he received the appointment of lieutenant governor of the province and oc- cupied that position until September, 1889. When a vacancy occurred in the representa- tion of the Island in the Senate, owing to the death of Senator Haythome, he was called to the Smate and this position he still holds. He has taken an active part in many of the measures which have very materially benefited Prince Edward Island, such as the