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| <tab>He attracted the favourable attention of Lord Selkirk, who put him in charge, as the governor of Assiniboia (1811), of Selkirk’s colony in what is now the Province of Manitoba. There, Macdonell’s career proved stormy, as he was caught in the conflict, sometimes violent, between the NWC and HBC. On one occasion, he was arrested and taken to Montreal for trial. When his Manitoba adventure was over about 1817, he returned to Osnabruck Township. He evidently spent his later life there and at the home of his brother John Macdonell at Pointe-Fortune on the Ottawa River. He died at his brother John’s home at Point-Fortune. (children: at least six) Roman Catholic. He was buried at Rigaud, Que. | <tab>He attracted the favourable attention of Lord Selkirk, who put him in charge, as the governor of Assiniboia (1811), of Selkirk’s colony in what is now the Province of Manitoba. There, Macdonell’s career proved stormy, as he was caught in the conflict, sometimes violent, between the NWC and HBC. On one occasion, he was arrested and taken to Montreal for trial. When his Manitoba adventure was over about 1817, he returned to Osnabruck Township. He evidently spent his later life there and at the home of his brother John Macdonell at Pointe-Fortune on the Ottawa River. He died at his brother John’s home at Point-Fortune. (children: at least six) Roman Catholic. He was buried at Rigaud, Que. |
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| <tab>He was married to (1) Isabella Macdonell or Macdonald, of Morar, Scotland, (2) Catherine Macdonell, daughter of Allan Macdonell of Collachie, and (3) Anne Macdonell, daughter of Alexander Macdonell of Greenfield. He was the father of the penitentiary warden Donald Aeneas Macdonell. Miles appears prominently as a character in Frederick Niven’s novel, //Mine Inheritance// (1940). For another man of GC connections who was a top administrator in Lord Selkirk’s ill-fated settlement projects, see Alexander Macdonell of Collachie. | <tab>He was married to (1) Isabella Macdonell or Macdonald, of Morar, Scotland, (2) Catherine Macdonell, daughter of Allan Macdonell of Collachie, and (3) Anne Macdonell, daughter of Alexander Macdonell of Greenfield. He was the father of the penitentiary warden Donald Aeneas Macdonell. Miles appears prominently as a character in Frederick Niven’s novel, //Mine Inheritance// (1940). For another man of GC connections who was a top administrator in Lord Selkirk’s ill-fated settlement projects, see [[macdonell_alexander4|Alexander Macdonell of Collachie.]] |
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