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Object Description

Object ID

1085

Title

William and Grace McDonald and their children in Murrayville, B.C.

Date

[ca. 1896].

Description

William and Grace McDonald and their children in Murrayville, B.C. (left to right): James McDonald, William McDonald Sr., Gordon McDonald (in William McDonald's lap), Grace McDonald Sr., Daisy McDonald (in Grace McDonald's lap), Barb McDonald.

People/Subject

McDonald, Barb

Daughter of William McDonald Sr. and Grace McDonald Sr. (nee Smith).
Term Source: 1990 and counting pg 44, 83 (MacKinnon), HPC Records (HPC-293/1085)

McDonald, Daisy

Daughter of William McDonald Sr. and Grace McDonald Sr. (nee Smith).
Term Source: 1990 and counting pg 44, 83 (MacKinnon), HPC Records (HPC-293/1085)

McDonald, Gordon A., Corporal

Son of William McDonald Sr. and Grace McDonald Sr. (nee Smith). Killed in World War I. McDonald Road (48th Avenue) was named in his memory.
Term Source: 1990 and counting pg 44, 83 (MacKinnon), HPC Records (HPC-293/1085, HPC-320/1096)

McDonald, Grace, Sr. (nee Smith)

Grace McDonald Sr. (nee Smith) was the daughter of James P. Smith and Mary McQuicken. Married to William McDonald Sr. She passed away in 1934.
Term Source: 1990 and counting pg. 44, 82-3 (MacKinnon) / HPC Records (HPC-291/1083)

McDonald, James

Nickname "Jim". Son of William McDonald Sr. and Grace McDonald (nee Smith). Nephew of Jim McDonald (who was brother to William McDonald). When Jim returned from WWI, he purchased a Soldier settlement house on Yale Road at the bottom of the Murrayville Hill for his mother and younger members of his family. [1990 and counting]
Term Source: 1990 and counting pg. 83 (MacKinnon), HPC Records (HPC-291/1083)

McDonald, William, Sr.

William McDonald Sr. was born in 1862 in Inverness, Scotland. He arrived in Canada at aged 14 in approximately 1880 (originally from Isle of Skye). He was one of 5 brothers and 1 sister. The parents and 6 children settled in Birks Falls, Ontario. Two other brothers - James and Hugh - came to BC with William in 1889. The brothers worked in sawmills throughout the Valley and William settled in Langley in 1895, establishing the McDonald Cedar Mill. William and James continued to work in many mills in the Valley. William married Grace Smith on April 1st, 1891 at her parents home at Lochiel, south Langley. The couples' first home was a homestead on LeFeuvre Road near Aldergrove. Their children were Barbara, James (Jim), William (Bill) Jr., Gordon (born in Murrayville 1875, killed in the First World War), Daisy, Clifford (b. 1911), Grace, and Geordie. William Sr. died in January 1918.

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