Wilbur MacDonald

Wilbur MacDonald
Wilbur MacDonald
Member of Parliament for Cardigan
	In office; 22 May 1979 – 18 February 1980
Preceded by	Daniel J. MacDonald
Succeeded by	Daniel J. MacDonald
MLA (Assemblyman) for 4th Queens
	In office; 27 September 1982 – 29 May 1989
Preceded by	Angus MacLean
Succeeded by	Alan Buchanan
MLA for Belfast-Pownal Bay
	In office; 18 November 1996 – 28 May 2007
Preceded by	first member
Succeeded by	Alan McIsaac
Personal details
Born	Wilbur Bernard MacDonald; 13 September 1933; Orwell, Prince Edward Island
Died	20 May 2020 (aged 86); Prince Edward Island
Political party	Progressive Conservative
Occupation	farmer

Wilbur Bernard MacDonald (13 September 1933 – 20 May 2020) was a Progressive Conservative party member of the House of Commons of Canada. He was a farmer by career.

The son of Leo R. MacDonald and Helen MacDonald, MacDonald was educated in Orwell. He married Pauline Murphy in 1958.^[1]

He represented Prince Edward Island's Cardigan electoral district, which he won in the 1979 federal election. After serving his only term, the 31st Canadian Parliament, he was defeated in the 1980 federal election by Daniel J. MacDonald of the Liberal Party. He was subsequently elected to the Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island as an MLA for 4th Queens in the 1982 election, and served until 1989. MacDonald served in the province's Executive Assembly as Minister of Industry from 1984 to 1986.

When the provincial ridings were redistricted in 1996, he became MLA for Belfast-Pownal Bay, which he held until his retirement from politics in 2007. MacDonald was speaker for the provincial assembly from 1997 to 2000.^[2]

MacDonald made two further unsuccessful attempts to reenter federal politics, first in a 13 April 1981 by-election and then in the 1993 federal election. MacDonald died on 20 May 2020, aged 86.^[2]^[3]