Macdonell, Miles

  • From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: See full biography at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miles_Macdonell
  • Wiki Biography:
    • Miles MacDonell (c. 1767 – 28 June 1828) was the first governor of the Red River Colony (or, Assiniboia), a 19th-century Scottish settlement located in present-day Manitoba and North Dakota.
    • Miles Macdonell Collegiate, opened in 1952, in Winnipeg, Manitoba, was named in his honour.
    • He was born in Inverness, Scotland, around 1767. In 1773, his father, Colonel John MacDonell of Scothouse (Spanish John), Inverness-shire, and three of his cousins chartered the Pearl and brought over five hundred of their families and friends, at the invitation of Sir William Johnson, and settled at Caughnawaga, on the Mohawk River, in the Province of New York.
    • Miles, who showed military tendencies at an early age, was appointed ensign in the King’s Royal Regiment of New York in 1792, lieutenant in the Royal Canadian volunteers in 1794, and captain in the same corps in 1796.
  • United Empire Loyalist listed in Loyalist Directory: https://uelac.ca/loyalist-directory/detail/?wpda_search_column_id=4924
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