John MacDonald of Garth (1772 - 1866)

Born 1772 in Callander, Perthshire, Scotland

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Died 25 Jan 1866 at about age 94 in Garth, Gray's Creek, Glengarry, Canada West

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Biography

John MacDonald was born at Garth, east of Loch Lomand, Perthshire, Scotland and came to Canada in 1791. Under the guidance of Angus Shaw, he was responsible for building Fort Augustus (1795) and the Rocky Mountain House (1799). In 1799 he married his cousin Nancy Small (d. Of John’s mother’s cousin Patrick Small) and had 5 children. He continued to work with the North West Company until the War of 1812, where he was given permission to lead an attack on Fort Astoria. He was in England at the time and it is unclear whether he actually assisted in the takeover, or if it had already been done by the time he arrived. In 1823 he deserts Nancy and marries Amelia McGillis (d. 1830) daughter of Duncan McGillis (1754-1858) and had 6 children by her.

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Sources

• "Great Hall Portraits." Fort William Historical Park. Accessed February 05, 2017. http://fwhp.ca/our-collection/historic-collection/portraits?task=blogcategory.

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• "John McDonald of Garth collection." Archives of Ontario. Accessed March 17, 2017. http://ao.minisisinc.com/scripts/mwimain.dll/144/ARCH_DESCRIPTIVE/DESCRIPTION_DET_REP/SISN%20500?SESSIONSEARCH.

• Masson, Louis Rodrique. Les Bourgeois de la Compagnie du Nord-Ouest: récits de voyages, lettres et rapports inédits relatifs au nord-ouest canadien. Québec: De l'imprimerie générale A. Coté et Cie, 1890. Accessed March 17, 2017. https://archive.org/details/lesbourgeoisdela02massrich.

• C. M. Livermore and N. Anick, “McDONALD, JOHN (d. 1866),” in Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 9, University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2003–, accessed February 24, 2019, http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/mcdonald_john_1866_9E.html.

• https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_MacDonald_of_Garth

Acknowledgments

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