Donald C. MacNeil

{{short description|Canadian politician}}

{{for|persons of a similar name|Donald McNeil (disambiguation)}}

{{Use Canadian English|date=January 2023}}

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| name =Donald C. MacNeil

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| birth_date = {{Birth date |1924|1|4}}

| birth_place =Sydney, Nova Scotia

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1978|10|24|1924|1|4}}

| death_place =Sydney, Nova Scotia

| office1 = MLA for Cape Breton South

| term_start1 = 1956

| term_end1 = 1970

| predecessor1 = John Smith MacIvor

| successor1 = John Francis Burke

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| residence=Halifax, Nova Scotia

| party = Progressive Conservative

| occupation =Lawyer

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Donald Campbell MacNeil (January 4, 1924 – October 24, 1978) was a Canadian politician. He represented the electoral district of Cape Breton South in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1956 to 1970. He is a member of the Nova Scotia Progressive Conservative Party.{{cite web|url=https://nslegislature.ca/sites/default/files/constituencies/pdfs/cape%20breton%20south.pdf|title=Electoral History for Cape Breton South|publisher=Nova Scotia Legislative Library|accessdate=2018-04-06|archive-date=2018-04-07|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180407054344/https://nslegislature.ca/sites/default/files/constituencies/pdfs/cape|url-status=dead}}

MacNeil was born in Sydney, Nova Scotia. He attended Acadia University, St. Francis Xavier University, and Dalhousie University. He earned a Bachelor of Laws from Dalhousie in 1948 and went into law practice. In 1948, he married Marguerite Shirley Cameron.{{cite book|last1=Elliott|first1=Shirley B.|title=The Legislative Assembly of Nova Scotia, 1758–1983 : a biographical directory|url=https://archive.org/details/legislativeassem0000unse/page/157|accessdate=2018-04-06|year=1984|publisher=Public Archives of Nova Scotia|isbn=0-88871-050-X|page=[https://archive.org/details/legislativeassem0000unse/page/157 157]}} He served in the Executive Council of Nova Scotia as Minister of Municipal Affairs.