Manly Edward MacDonald (August 15, 1889 – April 10, 1971) was a Canadian impressionistic painter who was born in Point Anne, close to Belleville, Ontario.

His work captured and recorded en plein air rural Ontario practices such as ploughing, cutting ice, collecting sap, logging and fishing.

[1][2] Although MacDonald was a reserved family man, he was embroiled in controversy over traditional versus modernist styles.

Macdonald's Land Girls Hoeing is part of the collection of the Canadian War Museum in Ottawa, Ontario.

The traditionalist versus modernist tensions continued with MacDonald's style of painting described by the OSA as an insult to Her Majesty.