President of The CLC
He was elected to the secretary treasurer's position at the 1956 founding convention of the CLC. In 1967, during Canada's Centennial Year, MacDonald was appointed acting president of the CLC in September, due to Claude Jodoin being incapacitated by illness. The position formally became his when he was elected president in a 1968 convention. He served three two year terms and resigned in 1974.
During this period, he became the first non-European to be elected president of the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions. He retired in 1974.
Donald MacDonald was recognized for his contribution to Canada's business and political life. On December 22, 1972 he was appointed an Officer of the Order of Canada. His other honours include: the Canadian Centennial Medal; the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.
After a long battle with cancer, MacDonald died in a hospital, in the nation's capital, Ottawa, on September 25, 1986.
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