(died 1 April 1938), contractor. (John Angus D. D. McDonald) Born presumably at the Glen, Williamstown, GC. Parents: Parents: D. D. Mcdonald and his wife Ann (Annie) Cameron. He was the brother of Allan P. Mcdonald and James D. D. Mcdonald and of the contractor and MLA for GC, D. R. Mcdonald. Obituaries of John Angus called him “a former railroad contractor and well known businessman of Glengarry county,” and remembered that he and his brother D. R. together “carried out a number of important railway contracts in various parts of the Dominion during the latter part of the 19th century.” John A. Chisholm mentioned him in a letter of 1924 as “Mr. John Angus McDonald of Williamstown, Glengarry County, a railroad contractor.” He also lived in Cornwall, Ont., for some years. He died in Windsor, Ont., where one of his daughters was living. (three daughters) Roman Catholic. He is buried at St. Mary’s cemetery, Williamstown, but seems to have no gravestone there.

     The obituary (Standard Freeholder 13 Dec. 1946) of Donald John Macdonell, of Glen Nevis, “one of Glengarry’s best known and most highly esteemed citizens,” stated, “In his late teens and early twenties he spent some time on railroad construction with the late D. R. and John Angus D. D. MacDonald in the Gatineau district and other parts of Quebec.” (Macdonell’s daughter later married into the D. D. family)

Standard Freeholder 4 & 6 April 1938, Glengarry News 8 April 1938 (QF these sources) * John A. Chisholm to T. C. Elliott, 14 Jan. 1924 (see entry for Chisholm)