Editing Allan MacNab (section)

{{short description|Political leader in Upper Canada and the Province of Canada}}
{{Use Canadian English|date=January 2023}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2024}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| honorific_prefix     = 
| name                 = Sir Allan MacNab
| honorific_suffix     = {{post-nominals|country=CAN|size=100%|Bt}}
| image                = ANMacNab.jpg
| caption              = Portrait in 1853 by [[Théophile Hamel]]
| birth_date           = {{birth date|df=yes|1798|02|19}}
| birth_place          = Newark (now [[Niagara-on-the-Lake]]), [[Upper Canada]]
| death_date           = {{death date and age|df=yes|1862|08|08|1798|02|19}}
| death_place          = [[Hamilton, Ontario|Hamilton]], [[Canada West]]
| office               = [[Joint Premiers of the Province of Canada|Joint Premier of the Province of Canada]]
| term_start           =  11 September 1854
| term_end             = 24 May 1856
| monarch              = [[Queen Victoria|Victoria]]
| governor_general     = [[Edmund Walker Head|Sir Edmund Walker Head]]
| predecessor          = [[Francis Hincks]]
| successor            = [[John A. Macdonald]]
| office2              = Member of the [[Legislative Assembly of Upper Canada]] for [[Wentworth County, Ontario|Wentworth County]]
| term_start2          = 1830
| term_end2            = 1834
| predecessor2         = 
| successor2           = 
| office3              = Member of the [[Legislative Assembly of Upper Canada]] for [[Hamilton, Ontario|Hamilton]]
| term_start3          = 1834
| term_end3            = 1841
| predecessor3         = 
| successor3           = ''Position abolished''
| office4              = Member of the [[Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada]] for [[Hamilton (Province of Canada electoral district)|Hamilton]]
| term_start4          = 1841
| term_end4            = 1857
| predecessor4          = ''New position''
| successor4            = [[Isaac Buchanan]]
| party                 = [[Upper Canada Tories|Tory]]
| profession           = Lawyer and businessman
}}

'''Sir Allan Napier MacNab, 1st Baronet''' (19 February 1798 – 8 August 1862) was a [[Canadians|Canadian]] political leader, [[Speculation|land speculator]] and [[Real estate investing|property investor]], lawyer, soldier, and militia commander who served in the [[Legislative Assembly of Upper Canada|Legislative Assembly]] of [[Upper Canada]] twice (representing a different county – [[Wentworth County, Ontario|Wentworth]] and [[Hamilton, Ontario|Hamilton]] – each time), the [[Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada|Legislative Assembly]] for the [[Province of Canada]] once, and served as [[Joint Premiers of the Province of Canada|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 [[Charles Bagot|Sir Charles Bagot]].<ref name=dcb>{{Cite web |title=Biography – MacNAB, Sir ALLAN NAPIER – Volume IX (1861-1870) – Dictionary of Canadian Biography |url=http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/macnab_allan_napier_9E.html |access-date= 5 July 2023 |website=biographi.ca}}</ref>

MacNab was a member of the [[Family Compact]] in [[Upper Canada]]. He briefly shared a military regiment (the [[49th (Princess Charlotte of Wales's) (Hertfordshire) Regiment of Foot|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 [[William Henry Boulton|another Family Compact member's grandfather]] – [[G. D'Arcy Boulton|George D'Arcy Boulton]] (aka D'Arcy Boulton Sr.)<ref name=dcb/>