From the Canadian Encyclopedia.
Alexander Macdonell, Roman Catholic bishop.
Born at Fort Augustus, Glengarry, Scotland 17 July 1762. Died at Dumfries, Scotland, 14 July1840.
Ordained in 1787, he spent the next several years in the Scottish Highlands. In 1793, he persuaded the British government to establish the Catholic corps, the Glengarry Regiment, of which he was the chaplain.
In 1802, the regiment was disbanded and two years later Macdonell got the British government to promise 200 acres to every soldier who emigrated to Canada. Macdonell and a large group of Catholic settlers did just that. They settled in what became known as Glengarry, Upper Canada.
--Brock-Perry
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