(2 Oct. 1875-1 Nov. 1963), physician, sportsman. (Dr Tupper McDonald, A. T. McDonald; A. Tupper McDonald, M. D.) Born at Williamstown, GC. Parents: John Alexander McDonald and his wife Mary Alexander. He became a medical student at Queen’s University in 1896, having apparently been earlier a student at McGill in Arts. He received his medical degree from Queen’s in April 1903. After getting his medical degree, he did not practise medicine, but settled at Williamstown and assisted his parents in their general store (their activities included an insurance business, and the postmastership). Tupper McDonald had a long career as an athlete in a very wide variety of sports, first in Eastern Ontario and Montreal in his earlier years, and then at Queen’s, and afterwards for many years as a non-practising physician at Williamstown. On his death, the Queen’s Alumni Review (Nov./Dec. 1963) recalled that as a student he had been “an outstanding athlete and football player.” He was inducted in the 1980s into the Queen’s Sports Hall of Fame and the Glengarry Sports Hall of Fame. “The historic graveyard of St. Andrew’s United Church, adjacent to his home was a source of pride for Dr. McDonald and it was his hobby through the years to escort visitors through church and yard. Tupper had a fund of knowledge on local genealogy and he delighted in helping visitors trace their ancestry or locate the graves of forebears.” And there he is himself buried. He was married to Ann Elizabeth McPherson (1881-1968). (six children) One of their sons, Dr William Alexander Leslie McDonald, a physician for many years at Trenton, Ont., died at Trenton 12 Feb. 2006, aged 91.

     See also John R. Grant, contractor, and, for non-practising physicians, Dr W. L. McDougald, Dr Donald David Randolph (Randy) McLennan.

Glengarry News 7 Nov. 1963 (has useful confirmation that he “never practiced his profession”) (QF) * biog. article by Angus H. McDonell, GN 25 May 1983, for McDonald’s induction into Glengarry Sports Hall of Fame, with fine line-drawing by Douglas A. Fales * Fraser, Gravestones, I, 104 * Anglin * Queen's University Archives * Fraser (1959) 152 * obituary of his brother, John Anderson McDonald, retired farmer, GN 12 Dec. 1930 * medical degree, GN 17 April 1903 * expected to go into cord wood business, GN 13 Nov. 1908 * son Dr McDonald: QAR 2006 issue 4, p. 36