Donald Willard MacKay (January 3, 1874 – January 26, 1952) was a Canadian politician. He represented the

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in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1928 to 1933. He was a

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member. MacKay was born in 1874 at

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, and moved to Nova Scotia in 1877. He married Reta Cook, and was a tailor by career. MacKay served as mayor and town councillor in

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. MacKay entered provincial politics in

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when he was elected in the dual-member Queens County riding with

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. He did not reoffer in the 1933 election. MacKay died at Liverpool on January 26, 1952.

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