of Greenfield (d. 1809), fur trader. (names Aeneas and Angus both found; Aeneas was a Scottish variant or equivalent of Angus) Born in Scotland. Parents: Alexander Macdonell of Greenfield (d. 1819) and his wife Janet Macdonell. On general grounds, it is probable that Aeneas came to Canada in 1792 with his father’s emigration group. Aeneas was a clerk in the service of the North West Company. From 1803 he was at Lac Seul (northwestern Ont.). He was shot and killed by a Hudson’s Bay Company man called Mowat at Eagle Lake in the NWC’s Nipigon department. Harkness names Aeneas among the Nor’Westers “who lived in Glengarry for a time.” It is probable that Harkness, normally a very careful writer, would not have made this statement without having some authority, written or oral and traditional, for it. Aeneas’ brother Alexander Macdonell was also in the service of the NWC. For the names of his other brothers, and the other connections of the family, see the life of his father.

Wallace * Dictionary of Canadian Biography: no biog., but mentioned VI, 321, VIII, 350 * Harkness 403-404 * Macdonell, Sketches, 132 * also, & esp. for genealogy: notes as per life of his father