Aeneas McDonell Dawson (30 July 1810 – 29 December 1894) was a Scottish-Canadian Roman Catholic priest and writer.
[1] Before immigrating to Canada in 1855, he had successive charge of the counties of Fife, Kinross, and Clackmannan.
On his arrival in Canada he was given the parish of St. Andrew's, Ottawa,[2] and later became preacher at the cathedral.
Dawson was a lecturer of repute and a frequent contributor to the provincial press.
He translated from the French: A list of his poems and other works is in the "Proceedings and Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada" (1894, XII, 23), of which he was a member.