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| <tab>As a composer, Louise S. Macdonald published several pieces of music, all apparently around the turn of the century. Under the name of Louis Field (not Louise Field, as has occasionally been misreported), she published //Inspiration: Waltzes// (1897), //Touch and Go: Polka// (1897), //Sweetheart Loo: Two-Step// (1898), //The Georgian Bay Canal: Walzes// (1899), and //Tiptoes: Polka// (1901, 1902). Wordings and spellings in these titles vary slightly as reported in different sources. | <tab>As a composer, Louise S. Macdonald published several pieces of music, all apparently around the turn of the century. Under the name of Louis Field (not Louise Field, as has occasionally been misreported), she published //Inspiration: Waltzes// (1897), //Touch and Go: Polka// (1897), //Sweetheart Loo: Two-Step// (1898), //The Georgian Bay Canal: Walzes// (1899), and //Tiptoes: Polka// (1901, 1902). Wordings and spellings in these titles vary slightly as reported in different sources. |
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| <tab>With regard to her artistic interests, it may be noted that her aforementioned two sisters, Annie and Helen, were authors. Also, Lancaster/South Lancaster in her time had, besides her sister Annie, as resident authors R. S. Knight, and Mrs Whyte-Edgar, and was the home also of the painter J. Archibald Browne. Barry Joseph Sullivan died there. See also Archibald McKillop. | <tab>With regard to her artistic interests, it may be noted that her aforementioned two sisters, Annie and Helen, were authors. Also, Lancaster/South Lancaster in her time had, besides her sister Annie, as resident authors R. S. Knight, and Mrs Whyte-Edgar, and was the home also of the painter J. Archibald Browne. Barry Joseph Sullivan died there. See also [[mckillop_archibald|Archibald McKillop]]. |
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| <tab>Robert J. Fraser in the 1950s noted that there was at South Lancaster, “unoccupied, and crumbling, a long low clapboarded building… For long years it was the home of the family of Ranald Sandfield McDonald.” Dorothy Dumbrille found the house unoccupied, with the blinds drawn, but was allowed to inspect it, and noticed the books and the family portraits. “Miss Louise Macdonald, daughter of Ranald, a lady of advanced age, lives nearby.” In 1961, the journalist Alex Mullin left an intriguing description, valedictory and nostalgic, of his tour of the ruinous house, from which by this time the furnishings had largely been removed. He was told by a Mrs Beatrice MacLeod, in whose home Louise had lived at the end of her life, that Louise had been a small, gentle lady, and that, when she left the Macdonald house, Louise had “simply walked out and left everything as it was, books, furniture, everything.” From Louise’s obituary, it appears that she left the house when her brother Edward died in 1939. See also Alexander Stickler for her family connections. | <tab>Robert J. Fraser in the 1950s noted that there was at South Lancaster, “unoccupied, and crumbling, a long low clapboarded building… For long years it was the home of the family of Ranald Sandfield McDonald.” Dorothy Dumbrille found the house unoccupied, with the blinds drawn, but was allowed to inspect it, and noticed the books and the family portraits. “Miss Louise Macdonald, daughter of Ranald, a lady of advanced age, lives nearby.” In 1961, the journalist Alex Mullin left an intriguing description, valedictory and nostalgic, of his tour of the ruinous house, from which by this time the furnishings had largely been removed. He was told by a Mrs Beatrice MacLeod, in whose home Louise had lived at the end of her life, that Louise had been a small, gentle lady, and that, when she left the Macdonald house, Louise had “simply walked out and left everything as it was, books, furniture, everything.” From Louise’s obituary, it appears that she left the house when her brother Edward died in 1939. See also [[stickler_alexander|Alexander Stickler]] for her family connections. |
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