====== Macdonell, Archibald Hayes ====== (6 Feb. 1868-12 Nov. 1939), soldier, political figure. (General Macdonell, Senator Macdonell, with title Hon.) Born in Toronto. Parents: Angus Duncan Macdonell and his wife Pauline Rosalie De-la-Hay (de Lahaye, De La Haye). He had a long, distinguished military career in the Canadian militia and the Canadian permanent army, and in the Imperial service. He fought in the Boer War, and in Nigeria, and in the First World War. In 1916 he was made a CMG (Companion of St. Michael and St. George). From 1917-1921 he was organizer and commander of the New Brunswick military district. He retired from the service in Jan. 1922 as a major general. He was appointed to the Senate, 7 Nov. 1921. Politically, he was a Conservative. He died at Rothesay, N. B. , and is buried at Rothesay. Roman Catholic. Late in life, on 6 June 1934, he was married to Mrs C. J. Coster. This distinguished man seems to have had relatively little interest in GC, and not much contact with it throughout life, but he was given a 25-line obituary in the //Glengarry News// (17 Nov. 1939) which noted that “Senator Macdonell had a number of warm friends throughout the county of Glengarry.” He was one of the several nationally known men who attended the funeral in Alexandria in 1930 of the historian John A. Macdonell (Greenfield). General Macdonell was not a Glengarrian, but was a prominent member of one of the great Glengarry family connections. He was the brother of Angus Claude Macdonell, who was also a senator, 1917-1921. General Macdonell, the subject of the present article, has to be distinguished from his contemporary and near namesake, another general whose career parallels his own, Sir Archibald Cameron Macdonell (who also attended the 1930 John A. Macdonell funeral). Both these generals were grandsons of Alexander Macdonell (1762-1842) of Collachie, who was MLA for Glengarry, and they were great-grandsons, therefore, of Allan Macdonell of Collachie, who was one of the leaders of the 1773 //Pearl// migration to New York province, the first of the migrations which led to the founding of the Glengarry Highland Scottish settlement. ---- //Telegraph-Journal// (Saint John, N. B.) 13-15 Nov. 1939 * London //Times// 14 Nov. 1939 (about 7 column inches) * Morgan (1912) 685 & 1209 * //The Catholic Who’s Who & Year-Book// 1925 p. 288 * Johnson (1968) 403-404 * GC descent noted, //Glengarry News// 10 Aug. 1917 [<6>]