Allan MacNab

Sir Allan MacNab
Portrait in 1853 by Théophile Hamel
Joint Premier of the Province of Canada
In office
11 September 1854 – 24 May 1856
MonarchVictoria
Governor GeneralSir Edmund Walker Head
Preceded byFrancis Hincks
Succeeded byJohn 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 byPosition abolished
Member of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada for Hamilton
In office
1841–1857
Preceded byNew position
Succeeded byIsaac Buchanan
Personal details
Born(1798-02-19)19 February 1798
Newark (now Niagara-on-the-Lake), Upper Canada
Died8 August 1862(1862-08-08) (aged 64)
Hamilton, Canada West
Political partyTory
ProfessionLawyer 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 grandfatherGeorge D'Arcy Boulton (aka D'Arcy Boulton Sr.)[1]

  1. ^ a b "Biography – MacNAB, Sir ALLAN NAPIER – Volume IX (1861-1870) – Dictionary of Canadian Biography". biographi.ca. Retrieved 5 July 2023.