(24 May 1860-30 Aug. 1948, aged 86), Cariboo old-timer. Born at Dunvegan, GC. Parents: Mrs and Mrs Malcolm MacRae. Duncan MacRae was a veteran of the Riel rebellion (North-West Rebellion) of 1885. In the records of this rebellion, he was probably the D. McRae who was a private in the Battleford Rifles. He was said to have “spent almost 60 years in the Cariboo country” after the rebellion. (Ashcroft Journal) Also, he took part in the Klondike Gold Rush. His home during the last 18 years of his life was at Clinton, B. C., north of Ashcroft, B. C. He died in the Lady Minto Hospital at Ashcroft, and was buried, apparently in the Ashcroft cemetery, with a military funeral arranged by the Clinton branch of the Canadian Legion. The chronology and facts of his life are difficult to reconstruct. There may have been more than one departure from GC, as with so many of the western people who returned for an interval and then left again. It would appear that he maintained his GC contacts over the years, for his obituary in the Cornwall Standard-Freeholder stated, “He was well known throughout Glengarry and Stormont Counties.”

Standard Freeholder 4 Sept. & 30 Nov. 1948 (the latter partly from Ashcroft Journal) * obituary (undated clipping but evidently from Ashcroft Journal in Ashcroft Museum and Archives, Ashcroft, B. C.) * list of officers and men in C. A. Boulton, Reminiscences of the North-West Rebellions (1886) * B. C. death record, Reg. No. 1948-09-008268