Allan MacNab

Sir Allan MacNab Bt
Portrait in 1853 by Théophile Hamel
Joint Premier of the Province of Canada
In office 11 September 1854 – 24 May 1856
Monarch	Victoria
Governor General	Sir Edmund Walker Head
Preceded by	Francis Hincks
Succeeded by	John A. Macdonald
Member of the Legislative Assembly of Upper Canada for Wentworth County
In office 1830–1834
Member of the Legislative Assembly of Upper Canada for Hamilton
In office 1834–1841
Succeeded by	Position abolished
Member of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada for Hamilton
In office 1841–1857
Preceded by	New position
Succeeded by	Isaac Buchanan
Personal details
Born	(1798-02-19)19 February 1798 Newark (now Niagara-on-the-Lake), Upper Canada
Died	8 August 1862(1862-08-08) (aged 64) Hamilton, Canada West
Political party	Tory
Profession	Lawyer and businessman

Sir Allan Napier MacNab, 1st Baronet (19 February 1798 – 8 August 1862) was a Canadian political leader, land speculator and property investor, lawyer, soldier, and militia commander who served in the Legislative Assembly of Upper Canada twice (representing a different county – Wentworth and Hamilton – each time), the Legislative Assembly for the Province of Canada once, and served as joint Premier of the Province of Canada from 1854 to 1856. MacNab was "likely the largest land speculator in Upper Canada during his time" as mentioned both in his official biography in retrospect and in 1842 by Sir Charles Bagot.^[1]

MacNab was a member of the Family Compact in Upper Canada. He briefly shared a military regiment (the 49th Regiment of Foot) with another member (James FitzGibbon) in the War of 1812. MacNab was left out of the regiment following regimental cuts after the War of 1812, and found employment in the law office of another Family Compact members grandfather – George D'Arcy Boulton (aka D'Arcy Boulton Sr.)^[1]