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*5201 $a"Sir William Macdonald (1831-1917) is the father of the Canadian tobacco industry and one of the country's foremost educational philanthropists. His contributions to McGill University transformed it into one of the world's foremost research and teaching institutions. William Fong's biography places Macdonald's life in its historical context, painting a vivid portrait of Victorian Canada." "Born into a prominent Scottish family on Prince Edward Island, Macdonald rejected his Catholic upbringing and left home when he was eighteen. After three years in Boston as a bookkeeper he headed to Montreal and began to work as a commission agent. By 1868 Macdonald had become the leading manufacturer of chewing tobacco in Canada, and by 1885 he may have been the richest person in the country." "Macdonald turned to philanthropy when he was in his fifties; his endowments to institutions from Prince Edward Island to British Columbia made professionalism and practical education central to Canadian life. Fong describes in particular how McGill University evolved, largely through Macdonald's financial contributions, from an impoverished institution into an intellectual powerhouse. Most famously, he financed the research that led to Ernest Rutherford's Nobel Prize and to the start of the atomic age. Sir William Macdonald offers the first detailed look at the development of engineering, physics, and law at McGill."--Jacket.
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The first biography of one of the most important Canadians of the nineteenth century offers fresh insights into the birth of the tobacco industry and educational philanthropy in Canada

• List of Illustrationsp. vii
• Forewordp. xi
• Preface and Acknowledgmentsp. xiii
• A Note on the Sourcesp. xv
• Introductionp. xvii
• Will Ye No Come Back Again?: Macdonald's Ancestry and Early Influences, to 1848p. 3
• Macdonald's Early Career in North America: From Bookkeeper to Tobacco Manufacturer, 1848-1861p. 30
• Macdonald the Tobacco King, 1861-1917p. 57
• The Island Legacy, Domestic Life, and the End of Captain John's Dream, 1864-1906p. 107
• The Evolution of Practical Education at McGill, circa 1850-1880p. 125
• Macdonald's Early Philanthropy: The Fraser Institute, McGill University, and His Search for Family, circa 1870-1892p. 145
• The Macdonald-Robertson Movement and the Founding of Macdonald College, 1899-1909p. 172
• Macdonald College and McGill University: Education and Research for a New Century, 1893-1914p. 206
• Tobacco with a Heart: Macdonald's Personality, Scottishness, Later Years, and Legacyp. 241
• Notesp. 277
• Indexp. 307