====== MacLeod, Neil Donald ====== 
 (6 Dec. 1910-18 June 1993), civil servant, disabled man. (Neil D. MacLeod, Neil MacLeod, usually known as “Neil Donald”) Born at Skye, Ont. Parents: John Norman MacLeod and his wife Catherine Anne MacRae. Neil Donald MacLeod was crippled in childhood by polio. He attended the local public school, which was across the road from his parents’ farm (a neighbour remembered John Norman carrying the crippled Neil Donald on his back to the school), and high school at Maxville. Neil Donald worked for many years in the Treasury Department, Ottawa. At this stage he could get about with crutches (in later years, he was limited to a wheelchair), and he drove a car. He sold his Ottawa house in 1981 and became a resident of Maxville Manor, where he spent the remainder of his life. He was deeply interested in local history and in genealogy, and as an intelligent man of lively mind, loved the problem-solving side of these occupations, and delighted in new ideas and discoveries. Swiftly moving through the corridors in his motorized wheelchair, going from conversation to conversation, he was a familiar figure at Maxville Manor. His deep, exceptionally fine voice made him in demand for prayers and readings at concerts and other events at the Manor. In earlier life he played the violin in a local orchestra. He died at Maxville Manor, unmarried. He published articles on his father’s occupation of making wooden pumps in //Glengarry Life// 1983 and 1988 and in //Manor Chatter// Nov. 1982-July 1983. These are likely to be found of lasting value in the history of the technology of rural Ontario.


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<fs small>//Glengarry News// 14 July 1993 * personal knowledge * sources: see his father (portrait in //Lochinvar to Skye//, 320)
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