Roderick Charles MacDonald

{{short description|Canadian politician}}

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

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| name =Roderick Charles MacDonald

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| constituency_AM = Dewdney

| assembly = British Columbia Legislative

| predecessor =Frank Porter Patterson

| successor =Lyle Wicks

| term_start = 1941

| term_end = 1952

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| birth_date =November 1885

| birth_place = North Uist, Scotland

| death_date ={{death date and age|1978|9|18|1885|11}}

| death_place=New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada

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| party =British Columbia Conservative Party

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| occupation=Merchant

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Roderick Charles MacDonald (November 1885 – September 18, 1978) was a Scottish-born merchant and political figure in British Columbia. After being an unsuccessful candidate in the Burnaby riding in the 1937 provincial election, he represented Dewdney in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia from 1941 to 1952 as a Conservative.

He was born in North Uist in November 1885, the son of Malcolm MacDonald and Mary A. MacAulay, and was educated there. He came to Canada in 1907, settling in Coquitlam. In 1915, MacDonald married D. E. Wiltshire. He was a member of the Coquitlam council, also serving as reeve from 1924 to 1941 and as president of the Union of British Columbia Municipalities.{{cite web |url=http://www.cscd.gov.bc.ca/lgd/history/bios_stories/macdonald_roderick_charles.htm |title=Roderick Charles MacDonald (1945-1952) |work=Ministry of Community, Sport and Cultural Development |publisher=Government of British Columbia |accessdate=2011-12-01}} Between April 1946 and January 1952, MacDonald served in the provincial cabinet as Minister of Mines and Minister of Municipal Affairs.{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aZz213hdj3EC&pg=PA256 |page=256 |title=Lords of the North |isbn=1-896182-71-2 |publisher=GeneralStore PublishingHouse |year=1997 |last=McDonell |first=James K |author2=Campbell, Robert Bennett |accessdate=2011-12-01}} He was defeated when he ran for reelection in 1952.{{cite web |url=http://www.elections.bc.ca/docs/rpt/1871-1986_ElectoralHistoryofBC.pdf |title=Electoral History of British Columbia, 1871-1986 |publisher=Elections BC |accessdate=2011-07-27}} MacDonald died on September 18, 1978 in New Westminster at the age of 92.{{cite web |url=http://search.bcarchives.gov.bc.ca/sn-4E75D75/view/Deaths/find-adv%2B%20callnumber=%28%221978-09-014210%22%20%29%20AND%20microfilm=%28b13588%29%20%2B%2B%2B%2B/1 |title=Vital Event Death Registration |publisher=BC Archives |accessdate=2011-11-30}}

R. C. MacDonald Elementary School in Coquitlam was named in his honour.