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William Christopher Macdonald
Sir William Christopher Macdonald (10 February 1831 – 9 June 1917) was a Scots-Quebecer tobacco manufacturer and major education philanthropist in Canada.
==Early life and career==
Born William Christopher McDonald in 1831 at Tracadie, Prince Edward Island. He came from a notable family, the sixth of the seven children of The Hon. Donald Macdonald (1795-1854) and Anna Matilda (1797-1877), daughter of The Hon. Ralph Brecken. In 1772, as a consequence of the Jacobite Rebellion, his paternal grandfather, the 8th laird of Glenladale in Scotland (of the MacDonalds of Clan Ranald), purchased more than 20,000 acres (80 km²) of land in Prince Edward Island for settlement by more than 200 members of his Roman Catholic clan. Known today as the Glenaladale Settlers, in Canada the family name had been recorded as McDonald which he maintained until 1898 when he began using the historical Scottish spelling but without capitalizing the "d".
As a youth, Macdonald rebelled against the authoritarian rule of his father and his Roman Catholic upbringing. Although his mother was Protestant, Macdonald and his siblings were raised in the Roman Catholic faith. At the age of sixteen he renounced the church, choosing to become a non-practising Christian. At eighteen he left his Island home, making his way to the United States, where he found clerical work in Boston. Although he had limited education, Macdonald quickly showed an entrepreneurial spirit and, joined by his brother Augustine, he organized himself as a broker to handle the shipping of American-made goods to merchants in his native Prince Edward Island. However, after a ship carrying some of his merchandise sank in an ocean storm, the venture had severe problems and Macdonald closed the business and left Boston.
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