(18 July 1867-25 Sept. 1926), workman, political figure. (Angus McDonald; perhaps known as Long Angus) Born at Bridge End, GC, presumably at his parents’ home, which was on Lot 14 in the 4th Concession of Lancaster Township. Parents: John Angus McDonald and his wife Harriet (Hattie) McLeod. He attended school in GC. It has not been possible to verify or completely to reject the statement that he also attended the University of Ottawa. He was a carpenter and timberman by occupation, but seems to have followed these occupations primarily as they were applied to mining. “The greater part of his life was spent in different mining camps on the continent…” He worked at mining in B. C. and other provinces of Canada, and presumably during the years of his earlier life he spent in the western U. S., and he made his home for some 20 years at Cobalt, Ont.

     At Cobalt, he “was always actively interested in the Labour Unions of the district, taking a prominent part in their work of organization.” He was MP for the Timiskaming constituency (which included Cobalt), not for one of the two regular parties, but for Labour or as an Independent (both terms are used), and had support from the UFO (United Farmers of Ontario). He was elected first at a by-election on 7 April 1920, was re-elected at the general election of 1921, completed his term but was not a candidate at the general election of 29 Oct. 1925. When he visited Cornwall in 1922, while he was an MP, the Freeholder reported he was “a native of Lancaster township and is of true Glengarry type, standing 6 feet 4 3/4 inches, weighing well over 200 pounds, and carrying himself with excellent grace.” He is sometimes described as Ontario’s first Labour MP. He died at Cobalt, suddenly, of heart failure, while talking to friends on the street. He had been ill for several years with heart trouble–probably the reason he was not a candidate in 1925, though, as it has been hinted, some problems over the division of his constituency into two by 1925 may also have been a motive. He never married. Roman Catholic. He is buried at the Glen Nevis Cemetery. His being a Labour man is remarkable, given that Glengarrians have generally proved a stony soil so far as Labour and Left loyalties have been concerned.

The New Liskeard Speaker 30 Sept. 1926, Glengarry News (QF) 1 Oct. 1926 * Johnson (1968) * Prominent People of the Province of Ontario (1925) 151 (brief who’s who type entry) * obituaries of his father, GN 24 Aug. 1900, and mother, GN 4 May 1923, both repr. with geneal. notes Fraser Obits. 186-187 * Ross, Lancaster, 313 * MacLeods, ii, 259 (parents and brother only) * information from Archives, University of Ottawa * Peter Fancy, Silver Centre: the Story of an Ontario Mining Camp (1985) 50 (mentioned as carpenter) * candidate for 1920 by-election, GN 21 Nov. 1919 * note on him as new MP, CF 6 May 1920 repr. from Ottawa Citizen * revisits Cornwall, CF 27 July 1922, GN 4 Aug. 1922