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Shortly after
graduating from the University of Alberta with a law degree, Bruce
Macdonald moved to Windsor in 1927 and joined the a law firm of Norman A.
McLarty and Gordon L. Fraser. Appointed
Windsor’s first full time City Solicitor in September 1930, Macdonald
was active in the plan to fund and refund the debts of the Amalgamated
Municipalities of East Windsor, Walkerville, Windsor and Sandwich. He resigned in 1937 over a dispute regarding the ownership of his
legal fees, and returned to private practice with McLarty and Fraser until
the outbreak of the Second World War.
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After returning to Windsor from active service overseas in 1946,
Macdonald was appointed King’s Council and joined the newly created law
firm of Robert Wilson, Gordon Thomson and Bruce J. S. Macdonald. Appointed
Crown Attorney for Essex County in April 1951, Macdonald’s primary challenge was to restore order
to the troubled Windsor Police Department.
He held that position until October 1961 when he became the Judge
of County and District Courts of Ontario with residence in Windsor. After retiring in December 1977, Macdonald presided as a Small
Claims Court Judge until his death in 1986.
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