Margaret Clothilde MacDonald RRC (1873 - 1948)

Born 26 Feb 1873 in Bailey's Brook, Pictou, Nova Scotia, Canada

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Died 7 Sep 1948 at age 75 in Bailey's Brook, Pictou, Nova Scotia, Canada

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Biography

Margaret MacDonald RRC lived in Nova Scotia, Canada.

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Margaret Clothilde MacDonald was a pioneering Canadian military nurse.

Born in 1873 in Bailey's Brook (Bailey Brook), Pictou, Nova Scotia, she was the third daughter of Mary Elizabeth Chisholm and Donal St. Daniel MacDonald, a general store owner.^[1]

Margaret attended Mount St. Vincent Academy, a convent school run by the Sisters of Charity. She then trained as a nurse at Charity Hospital Training School in New York. After graduating in 1895, her first job was in Panama during the construction of the Panama Canal. Her first military appointment was on the military relief ship Relief at the time of the Spanish-American War (1898). She later served during the South African War (1900). After her experiences in the field, upon her return to Canada, she was named one of two nurses to the permanent Canadian Army Medical Corps. During World War I, she became matron-in-chief of Canada's overseas nursing service and was the first woman in the British Empire to hold the rank of major.

She retired from nursing in 1920 and returned to her hometown, where she died in 1948.^[2]

In 1982, she was designated a National Historic Person.^[3]

Sources

1. ↑ "Canada, Nova Scotia Births, 1864-1877", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:W9RC-MYZM : 15 July 2021), Margaret St Clothilde McDonald, 1873.
2. ↑ "Canada, Nova Scotia Vital Records, 1763-1957," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KMG4-4D2 : 8 December 2014), Margaret Macdonald, 1948, Death; citing p. 5616, volume 1948, Baileys Brook, Pictou, Nova Scotia, Canada; Nova Scotia Archives, Halifax.
3. ↑ Directory of Federal Heritage Designations: Major Margaret Clothilde Macdonald

• Susan Mann, Margaret Macdonald Imperial Daughter, (McGill-Queens University Press, Montreal, Kingston, 2005)
• Militia and Defence Personnel Files, Rank, Service and Pay File for M. C. Macdonald, T17530, starting on image 3535, https://heritage.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.lac_reel_t17530/3535

See also:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_MacDonald_(nurse)
• https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6759233
• Find a Grave (has image), Find A Grave: Memorial #158845851 (accessed 11 July 2023), Memorial page for MAJ Margaret C MacDonald (15 Feb 1873-7 Sep 1948), citing Mount St Marys Cemetery, Baileys Brook, Pictou County, Nova Scotia, Canada; Maintained by Jody MacKeil (contributor 47631621).