MacDonald, Ronald (1798?-1854), journalist, was a native of Prince Edward Island, and was born about 1798. He was educated at the Quebec Seminary, was for a number of years a teacher of deaf-mutes in Quebec, and became the editor of the Gazette de Québec and of Le Canadien. He died on October 14, 1854, at Quebec. See P. G. Roy, Le journaliste Ronald MacDonald (Bull. rech. hist., 1936).

Source: W. Stewart WALLACE, ed., The Encyclopedia of Canada, Vol. IV, Toronto, University Associates of Canada, 1948, 400p., p. 167.