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Object Description

Object Name

Print, Photographic

Object ID

4826

Title

Linwood McDonald (back centre) and other soldiers watching boxing in Mahon Park, North Vancouver.

Date

1917.

Description

Linwood McDonald (back centre under arrow) watching boxing in Mahon Park, North Vancouver.

Photo Inscription/Caption

Stick, canadian, and Lugan, Russian, boxing on judges stand Mahon Park, N. Van. I am just behind their fists standing on the back of a park seat.

People/Subject

Armed Forces

See Also: army, navy, enlisted men, officers.

McDonald, Lawrence Linwood

Lawrence Linwood McDonald was a son of Mary Jane (nee Hurtt) and Malcolm Loch McDonald. He was born in 1890 in Hoople, North Dakota. Lawrence had two siblings, George (1895-1973) and Lida (1889-1985). The family left North Dakota and farmed at Birdseye Creek, Oregon until 1911. They then moved to Vancouver for 9 years. Lawrence and his brother George had both served in the armed forces in WWI and used their Soldier's Settlement Grants to buy land for a farm on County Line Road in Aldergrove in 1920. When Malcolm McDonald died in 1929, his widow moved to New Westminster.

Source: 'The Place Between" by the Alder Grove Heritage Society, p.204

North Vancouver

Sports