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Bennett Campbell</a></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />30 October 1972 – 21 May 1979</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Melvin_McQuaid" title="Melvin McQuaid">Melvin McQuaid</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data">Wilbur MacDonald</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;"><a href="/wiki/Legislative_Assembly_of_Prince_Edward_Island" title="Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island">MLA</a> (Councillor) for <a href="/wiki/1st_Kings" title="1st Kings">1st Kings</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />10 December 1962 – 1972</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data">Melvin McQuaid</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data">Melvin McQuaid</td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender">Personal details</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><div style="display:inline" class="nickname">Daniel Joseph MacDonald</div><br /><span style="display:none">(<span class="bday">1918-07-23</span>)</span>23 July 1918<br />Bothwell, <a href="/wiki/Prince_Edward_Island" title="Prince Edward Island">Prince Edward Island</a>, Canada</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Died</th><td class="infobox-data">30 September 1980<span style="display:none">(1980-09-30)</span> (aged 62)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Political party</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_of_Canada" title="Liberal Party of Canada">Liberal</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Spouse</th><td class="infobox-data">Pauline Peters</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Children</th><td class="infobox-data">7</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-below" style="border-top: 1px solid right;"><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Daniel Joseph MacDonald</b> <span class="nobold noexcerpt nowraplinks" style="font-size:;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><a href="/wiki/King%27s_Privy_Council_for_Canada" title="King's Privy Council for Canada">PC</a></span></span> (23 July 1918 – 30 September 1980) was a <a href="/wiki/Canadians" title="Canadians">Canadian</a> politician from <a href="/wiki/Prince_Edward_Island" title="Prince Edward Island">Prince Edward Island</a>. He served as <a href="/wiki/Minister_of_Veterans_Affairs_(Canada)" title="Minister of Veterans Affairs (Canada)">Minister of Veterans Affairs</a> from 1972 to 1979 and again in 1980 until his death. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Life">Life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Daniel_J._MacDonald&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>He was born on his family's farm in <a href="/w/index.php?title=Bothwell,_Prince_Edward_Island&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Bothwell, Prince Edward Island (page does not exist)">Bothwell</a>, <a href="/wiki/Prince_Edward_Island" title="Prince Edward Island">Prince Edward Island</a>, and was educated in a one-room schoolhouse. </p><p>At the age of 20, he bought his own farm at Bothwell Beach. In 1940, he enlisted in <a href="/wiki/The_Prince_Edward_Island_Highlanders" class="mw-redirect" title="The Prince Edward Island Highlanders">The Prince Edward Island Highlanders</a> to fight in <a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a>. He was transferred to the <a href="/wiki/Cape_Breton_Highlanders" title="Cape Breton Highlanders">Cape Breton Highlanders</a> in 1943 and fought with the rank of <a href="/wiki/Sergeant" title="Sergeant">sergeant</a> in <a href="/wiki/Italy" title="Italy">Italy</a>, where he was wounded during the assault on the <a href="/wiki/Gothic_Line" title="Gothic Line">Gothic Line</a>. He returned to his unit after a few weeks and was seriously wounded on December 21, 1944, during the <a href="/wiki/Spring_1945_offensive_in_Italy" title="Spring 1945 offensive in Italy">Battle of Senio River</a>. As a result, his left arm and leg were amputated. Undiscouraged by his injuries, he returned to his farm, married a local woman named Pauline Peters, built a house, and raised seven children: Blair, Heather, Gail, Daniel, Leo, Walter, and Gloria. The singer-songwriter <a href="/wiki/Jenn_Grant" title="Jenn Grant">Jenn Grant</a> is a granddaughter. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Political_career">Political career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Daniel_J._MacDonald&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Political career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1962, he was elected to the <a href="/wiki/Prince_Edward_Island_House_of_Assembly" class="mw-redirect" title="Prince Edward Island House of Assembly">Prince Edward Island House of Assembly</a> and sat in the body for ten years. He served as <a href="/wiki/Minister_of_Natural_Resources_(Canada)" class="mw-redirect" title="Minister of Natural Resources (Canada)">Minister of Agriculture and Forestry</a> from 1966 to 1972, when he resigned to run in the <a href="/wiki/1972_Canadian_federal_election" title="1972 Canadian federal election">1972 federal election</a>. Elected as the <a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_of_Canada" title="Liberal Party of Canada">Liberal</a> <a href="/wiki/Member_of_Parliament_(Canada)" title="Member of Parliament (Canada)">Member of Parliament</a> for <a href="/wiki/Cardigan_(electoral_district)" title="Cardigan (electoral district)">Cardigan</a>, he was appointed to the <a href="/wiki/Canadian_Cabinet" class="mw-redirect" title="Canadian Cabinet">Cabinet</a> of <a href="/wiki/Pierre_Trudeau" title="Pierre Trudeau">Pierre Trudeau</a> as <a href="/wiki/Minister_of_Veterans_Affairs_(Canada)" title="Minister of Veterans Affairs (Canada)">Minister of Veterans Affairs</a>. He was defeated in the <a href="/wiki/1979_Canadian_federal_election" title="1979 Canadian federal election">1979 federal election</a> but returned in the <a href="/wiki/1980_Canadian_federal_election" title="1980 Canadian federal election">1980 election</a> and was then reappointed to the Veterans Affairs portfolio. MacDonald reformed veterans' pensions to make them more generous and introduced disability pensions and pensions for <a href="/wiki/Prisoners_of_war" class="mw-redirect" title="Prisoners of war">prisoners of war</a>. </p><p>In the late 1970s, Prime Minister <a href="/wiki/Pierre_Elliott_Trudeau" class="mw-redirect" title="Pierre Elliott Trudeau">Pierre Elliott Trudeau</a> undertook an initiative to decentralize government away from Ottawa. He and MacDonald devised the plan to move the headquarters of the Department of Veterans Affairs from Ottawa to Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island. The department's head office, along with the <a href="/wiki/Veterans_Review_and_Appeal_Board" title="Veterans Review and Appeal Board">Veterans Review and Appeal Board</a>, have been located in the Daniel J. MacDonald Building (the "DJM") in PEI's capital ever since. (In the early 21st century, a second building two blocks from the DJM, the <a href="/wiki/Jean_Canfield" title="Jean Canfield">Jean Canfield</a> Building (the "JCB"), was constructed to house other federal government offices, including some from Veterans Affairs Canada.) The department has become a major economic contributor to PEI, and has had an important impact on Charlottetown's cultural landscape. </p><p>MacDonald died in office on September 30, 1980, and was given a <a href="/wiki/State_funerals_in_Canada" title="State funerals in Canada">state funeral</a>. The eulogy was given by Prime Minister Trudeau at <a href="/wiki/St._Dunstan%27s_Basilica" title="St. Dunstan's Basilica">St. Dunstan's Cathedral</a>, in <a href="/wiki/Charlottetown" title="Charlottetown">Charlottetown</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Electoral_history">Electoral history</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Daniel_J._MacDonald&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Electoral history"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable mw-collapsible" style="width:668px;"> <tbody><tr> <th colspan="9"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1129693374">.mw-parser-output .hlist dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul{margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt,.mw-parser-output .hlist li{margin:0;display:inline}.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline 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title="1979 Canadian federal election">1979 Canadian federal election</a>: <span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Cardigan_(electoral_district)" title="Cardigan (electoral district)">Cardigan</a></span> </th></tr> <tr> <th colspan="2 style=" bgcolor="">Party </th> <th width="250px">Candidate </th> <th width="48px">Votes</th> <th width="43px">%</th> <th width="52px"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1038841319">.mw-parser-output .tooltip-dotted{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}</style><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #9999FF; width: 16px;"> </td> <td style="width: 180px; text-align: left;"><a href="/wiki/Progressive_Conservative_Party_of_Canada" title="Progressive Conservative Party of Canada">Progressive Conservative</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wilbur_MacDonald" title="Wilbur MacDonald">Wilbur MacDonald</a></td> <td style="text-align:right;">8,219</td> <td style="text-align:right;">48.11</td> <td style="text-align:right;">+5.98 </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #EA6D6A; width: 16px;"> </td> <td style="width: 180px; text-align: left;"><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_of_Canada" title="Liberal Party of Canada">Liberal</a></td> <td><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Daniel J. MacDonald</a></td> <td style="text-align:right;">7,972</td> <td style="text-align:right;">46.67</td> <td style="text-align:right;">-7.32 </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #F4A460; width: 16px;"> </td> <td style="width: 180px; text-align: left;"><a href="/wiki/New_Democratic_Party" title="New Democratic Party">New Democratic</a></td> <td>George MacFarlane</td> <td style="text-align:right;">892</td> <td style="text-align:right;">5.22</td> <td style="text-align:right;">+1.94 </td></tr> <tr style="background-color:white;color:black;"> <td colspan="3" style="text-align:right;border-top:1px solid darkgray;">Total valid votes </td> <td style="text-align:right;border-top:1px solid darkgray;"><span class="nowrap">17,083</span></td> <td style="text-align:right;border-top:1px solid darkgray;"><span class="nowrap">100.00 </span> </td></tr></tbody></table> <table class="wikitable mw-collapsible" style="width:668px;"> <tbody><tr> <th colspan="9"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239400231"><div class="navbar plainlinks hlist navbar-mini" style="float:left;"><ul><li class="nv-view"><a href="/wiki/Template:1974_Canadian_federal_election/Cardigan" title="Template:1974 Canadian federal election/Cardigan"><abbr title="View this template">v</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-talk"><a href="/wiki/Template_talk:1974_Canadian_federal_election/Cardigan" title="Template talk:1974 Canadian federal election/Cardigan"><abbr title="Discuss this template">t</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-edit"><a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Template:1974_Canadian_federal_election/Cardigan" title="Special:EditPage/Template:1974 Canadian federal election/Cardigan"><abbr title="Edit this template">e</abbr></a></li></ul></div><a href="/wiki/1974_Canadian_federal_election" title="1974 Canadian federal election">1974 Canadian federal election</a>: <span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Cardigan_(electoral_district)" title="Cardigan (electoral district)">Cardigan</a></span> </th></tr> <tr> <th colspan="2 style=" bgcolor="">Party </th> <th width="250px">Candidate </th> <th width="48px">Votes</th> <th width="43px">%</th> <th width="52px"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #EA6D6A; width: 16px;"> </td> <td style="width: 180px; text-align: left;"><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_of_Canada" title="Liberal Party of Canada">Liberal</a></td> <td><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Daniel J. MacDonald</a></td> <td style="text-align:right;">6,958</td> <td style="text-align:right;">53.99</td> <td style="text-align:right;">+9.45 </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #9999FF; width: 16px;"> </td> <td style="width: 180px; text-align: left;"><a href="/wiki/Progressive_Conservative_Party_of_Canada" title="Progressive Conservative Party of Canada">Progressive Conservative</a></td> <td>Leo James Walsh</td> <td style="text-align:right;">5,429</td> <td style="text-align:right;">42.13</td> <td style="text-align:right;">+0.95 </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #F4A460; width: 16px;"> </td> <td style="width: 180px; text-align: left;"><a href="/wiki/New_Democratic_Party" title="New Democratic Party">New Democratic</a></td> <td>Martin Gerard Kenny</td> <td style="text-align:right;">423</td> <td style="text-align:right;">3.28</td> <td style="text-align:right;">-10.99 </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #DCDCDC; width: 16px;"> </td> <td style="width: 180px; text-align: left;"><a href="/wiki/Independent_politician#Canada" title="Independent politician">Independent</a></td> <td>A. Neil Harpham</td> <td style="text-align:right;">77</td> <td style="text-align:right;">0.60</td> <td style="text-align:right;"> </td></tr> <tr style="background-color:white;color:black;"> <td colspan="3" style="text-align:right;border-top:1px solid darkgray;">Total valid votes </td> <td style="text-align:right;border-top:1px solid darkgray;"><span class="nowrap">12,887</span></td> <td style="text-align:right;border-top:1px solid darkgray;"><span class="nowrap">100.00 </span> </td></tr></tbody></table> <table class="wikitable mw-collapsible" style="width:668px;"> <tbody><tr> <th colspan="9"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239400231"><div class="navbar plainlinks hlist navbar-mini" style="float:left;"><ul><li class="nv-view"><a href="/wiki/Template:1972_Canadian_federal_election/Cardigan" title="Template:1972 Canadian federal election/Cardigan"><abbr title="View this template">v</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-talk"><a href="/wiki/Template_talk:1972_Canadian_federal_election/Cardigan" title="Template talk:1972 Canadian federal election/Cardigan"><abbr title="Discuss this template">t</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-edit"><a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Template:1972_Canadian_federal_election/Cardigan" title="Special:EditPage/Template:1972 Canadian federal election/Cardigan"><abbr title="Edit this template">e</abbr></a></li></ul></div><a href="/wiki/1972_Canadian_federal_election" title="1972 Canadian federal election">1972 Canadian federal election</a>: <span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Cardigan_(electoral_district)" title="Cardigan (electoral district)">Cardigan</a></span> </th></tr> <tr> <th colspan="2 style=" bgcolor="">Party </th> <th width="250px">Candidate </th> <th width="48px">Votes</th> <th width="43px">%</th> <th width="52px"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1038841319"><span class="rt-commentedText tooltip tooltip-dotted" title="Change in percentage value since previous election">±%</span> </th></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #EA6D6A; width: 16px;"> </td> <td style="width: 180px; text-align: left;"><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_of_Canada" title="Liberal Party of Canada">Liberal</a></td> <td><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Daniel J. MacDonald</a></td> <td style="text-align:right;">5,528</td> <td style="text-align:right;">44.54</td> <td style="text-align:right;">-4.21 </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #9999FF; width: 16px;"> </td> <td style="width: 180px; text-align: left;"><a href="/wiki/Progressive_Conservative_Party_of_Canada" title="Progressive Conservative Party of Canada">Progressive Conservative</a></td> <td>Alfred Kenneth Fraser</td> <td style="text-align:right;">5,111</td> <td style="text-align:right;">41.18</td> <td style="text-align:right;">-8.35 </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:inherit; background-color: #F4A460; width: 16px;"> </td> <td style="width: 180px; text-align: left;"><a href="/wiki/New_Democratic_Party" title="New Democratic Party">New Democratic</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Aquinas_Ryan" title="Aquinas Ryan">Aquinas Ryan</a></td> <td style="text-align:right;">1,771</td> <td style="text-align:right;">14.27</td> <td style="text-align:right;">+12.51 </td></tr> <tr style="background-color:white;color:black;"> <td colspan="3" style="text-align:right;border-top:1px solid darkgray;">Total valid votes </td> <td style="text-align:right;border-top:1px solid darkgray;"><span class="nowrap">12,410</span></td> <td style="text-align:right;border-top:1px solid darkgray;"><span class="nowrap"> 100.00</span> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Daniel_J._MacDonald&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.vac-acc.gc.ca/general/sub.cfm?source=history/other/macdonald">Department of Veterans Affairs biography</a></li></ul> <table class="wikitable succession-box noprint" style="margin:0.5em auto; font-size:small;clear:both;"> <tbody><tr> <td style="text-align:center; border-top: 5px solid #EA6D6A" colspan="3"><b>20th Ministry – First cabinet of <a href="/wiki/Pierre_Trudeau" title="Pierre Trudeau">Pierre Trudeau</a></b> </td></tr> <tr class="noprint"> <th colspan="3">Cabinet post (1) </th></tr> <tr class="noprint"> <th scope="col" style="width:110px;text-align:center;">Predecessor </th> <th scope="col" style="width:290px;text-align:center;">Office </th> <th scope="col" style="width:110px;text-align:center;">Successor </th></tr> <tr class="noprint"> <td style="text-align:center;"><b><a href="/wiki/Arthur_Laing" title="Arthur Laing">Arthur Laing</a></b> </td> <td style="text-align:center;"><b><a href="/wiki/Minister_of_Veterans_Affairs_(Canada)" title="Minister of Veterans Affairs (Canada)">Minister of Veterans Affairs</a></b><br />1972–1979 </td> <td style="text-align:center;"><b><a href="/wiki/Allan_McKinnon" title="Allan McKinnon">Allan McKinnon</a></b> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="text-align:center; border-top: 5px solid 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