Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Bayan wa'adinsa a Kanada ya ƙare a 1946, MacDonald ya ci gaba da yin aiki a wasu mukamai na Imperial: a matsayin Gwamna Janar na yankunan Birtaniya a kudu maso gabashin Asiya daga 1946 zuwa 1948 sannan kuma Kwamishinan Janar na kudu maso gabashin Asiya wanda ke kula da al'amuran yanki har ma a lokacin tawayen kwaminisanci
; a matsayin Babban Kwamishina a Indiya daga 1955 zuwa 1960; a matsayin co-shugaban taron Laos; kuma a karshe a matsayin Gwamna Janar na Kenya tsakanin 1963 zuwa 1964.