(died 1 March 1952, aged 91 years, 4 months, 1 day), physician. Born east of the GC hamlet of Glen Sandfield, and presumably within the county. In 1889, he obtained his medical degree from McGill. At Vankleek Hill, where he practised medicine for many years, he established in 1912 a small private hospital commonly known as Dr MacDonald’s Hospital. Dr MacDonald retired in 1947, after 58 years, from the practice of medicine. His hospital is continued today by a private nursing home. His house from 1899 till his death, a Vankleek Hill landmark because of its tower, is next to the Baptist church on Main Street. His wife, Ella Dawson Cameron, died 9 April 1943, aged 78. One of their sons, Strathcona MacDonald, was killed in WWI.
Dr MacDonald died at his hospital, Vankleek Hill. He and his wife were buried from Knox Presbyterian Church, the place of burial being Greenwood Cemetery, Vankleek Hill. We may assume that he was the Dr MacDonald who performed the amputation in 1894 on the accident victim Alexander MacGillivray. The contractor John J. MacIntosh, fatally injured in a construction site accident at Knox Church, Vankleek Hill, died at Dr MacDonald’s hospital in 1917, and the author John E. McIntosh (“Sandy Fraser”) died at the hospital in 1948.
Private information * St-Grégoire St. Gregory: Vankleek Hill: 1878-1978 (1978) 90-91, 98 * A Goodly Heritage: a History of Knox Presbyterian Church, Vankleek Hill 1825-2000 (2001) 48