====== MacAulay, (Donald?) ====== 
 (early 19th century), lumberman. He appears in Robert Sellar’s history of Huntingdon, as “Macaulay, a Glengarry lumberman,” who was lumbering in Huntingdon County about the 1820s. “Several winters he sent no fewer than 200 men into the woods, and when the ice broke, covered the Chateauguay with rafts of the finest cut of oak and pine.” An early settler reached his lot by way of “a lumber-road, formed by Macaulay’s men, that winded out and in across the country.” Another pioneer in Sellar’s book remembered that “Macaulay of Glengarry was lumbering on a large scale…”

<tab>Macaulay the lumberman was probably the Donald MacAulay of Cornwall who was married to Margaret Bruce. This couple’s children included (1) D. W. Bruce MacAulay, a Cornwall lawyer who was called to the bar in 1838 and died in 1841 or 1842, (2) Dr James MacAulay, who practised medicine in Cornwall in the 1830s but, like his brother, was cut off by death early in his professional career, and (3) Mrs Macdonell. Her husband was probably John Macdonell (Greenfield), a lawyer who died in Cornwall in 1840, aged 24, and who was the son of Sheriff Alexander Macdonell (Greenfield). Donald MacAulay, of Cornwall, was a prominent citizen of the town and a militia captain. The Donald McAulay who is listed among the pupils of the Rev. Hugh Urquhart cannot (on chronological grounds) have been the Donald MacAulay of the present sketch, but he may have been a son.


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<fs small>Sellar (1963) (QF) 157-158, 320, 363 (two refs.), 425-426 * Harkness 420-423, 448 * Pringle 64, 71, 85, 134, 245, 416 * Senior 158 * Brault 364, 366
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