mcdonald_james2

McDonald, James

(died 15 June 1915, aged fifty), contractor. Born at Maple Grove, Ont. (presumably this was the Maple Grove immediately west of Cornwall). He moved with his parents to their farm in the Glen, near Williamstown, GC. At Williamstown, he attended the high school. “Being of a progressive nature, he took up railway work and was a prominent contractor in Montana for a number of years.” For the last fifteen years of his life, he was manager of construction work for the New York Realty Co. He died in New York City. Roman Catholic. Burial was at St. Mary’s cemetery, Williamstown.


Vankleek Hill Review 13 Aug. 1915 (QF) * Fraser, Gravestones, I, 22 * Alan Rayburn, Lost Names and Places of Eastern Ontario (1993) 23 (for Maple Grove)

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