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| ====== Macdonald, John Ford ====== | ====== Macdonald, John Ford ====== |
| (27 Feb. 1878-7 Sept. 1965), university teacher. (J. F. Macdonald; “Red” Macdonald; known to friends as “J. F.”; name often with title Professor) Born at Huntingdon, Que. Parents: Henry Macdonald and his wife Nancy Smith. Nancy Smith is reported to have been the aunt of James Alexander Robb (1859-1929), who was finance minister in the Mackenzie King government. (See also W. J. Barker) | (27 Feb. 1878-7 Sept. 1965), university teacher. (J. F. Macdonald; “Red” Macdonald; known to friends as “J. F.”; name often with title Professor) Born at Huntingdon, Que. Parents: Henry Macdonald and his wife Nancy Smith. Nancy Smith is reported to have been the aunt of James Alexander Robb (1859-1929), who was finance minister in the Mackenzie King government. (See also [[barker_william_j|W. J. Barker]]) |
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| <tab>While J. F. Macdonald was still a child, both his parents died in an influenza epidemic of 1889. After that event, he lived near Williamstown, GC, with one or the other of two married sisters of his. He attended high school at Williamstown, where he was taught by Donald MacKay, later the principal of Alexandria High School. In a speech in 1961, he remembered MacKay as “a great headmaster.” As a youngster, he had summer employment in sawmills of the Lancaster Village area. He had relatively little involvement with GC in his mature years, but he was one of the speakers at a banquet for Queen’s University graduates and undergraduates held at Williamstown on 28 Dec. 1911 (//Cornwall Standard// 19 Jan. 1912). | <tab>While J. F. Macdonald was still a child, both his parents died in an influenza epidemic of 1889. After that event, he lived near Williamstown, GC, with one or the other of two married sisters of his. He attended high school at Williamstown, where he was taught by Donald MacKay, later the principal of Alexandria High School. In a speech in 1961, he remembered MacKay as “a great headmaster.” As a youngster, he had summer employment in sawmills of the Lancaster Village area. He had relatively little involvement with GC in his mature years, but he was one of the speakers at a banquet for Queen’s University graduates and undergraduates held at Williamstown on 28 Dec. 1911 (//Cornwall Standard// 19 Jan. 1912). |
