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MACDONALD, JOHN (1851-1906)

MACDONALD, JOHN, doctor; b. Mount Stewart, P.E.I., 17 Feb 1851, s/o Gabriel MacDonald and Ann MacDonald; m. 1880, Elizabeth Bannon, sister of Thomas John Bannon and Edward J. Bannon; d. Chatham, 18 Dec 1906.

It was stated that John Macdonald was a relative of Father Dougald Macdonald, who was stationed at Tignish, P.E.I., in 1899, and of Sir William C. Macdonald, the Montreal tobacco tycoon. He was educated at St Dunstan's College (1871-74) and trained as a pharmacist in Quebec. He practiced pharmacy for two years in Boston and then entered Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia, from which he took his MD in 1879. During the first two years following his graduation he practiced in Newcastle, while boarding at the home of Thomas Maltby. In 1880 he was appointed a coroner. He married a Chatham woman that year and relocated there in 1881. In 1884 he joined with Drs John S. and Joseph B. Benson in providing medical services to the Hotel Dieu Hospital. Later in his career he was the quarantine officer for the port.

"A fine looking man with luxuriant dark wavy hair and a full beard," Macdonald was "a doctor of the old school," who always put his patients' needs first. "No distance was too long, " stated the North Shore Leader, "no road too bad, and no weather too stormy to keep Dr MacDonald from answering a call, and his skill was at the service of the sick even when he knew he could expect no payment." When he died of cancer in 1906, at age fifty-five, his only named survivor was his wife, Elizabeth Bannon.

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[b] census (day and month); Leader 21 Dec 1906 [m] Freeman 16 Oct 1880 [d] Advocate 26 Dec 1906 / Advance 19 Feb 1880, 7 Sep 1899, 29 Mar 1900; Advocate 8 Jun 1881; Commercial 12 May 1908 (re. Hotel Dieu Hospital); Island Register online ("The Descendants of Charles MacDonald," by Joann MacDonald); Leader 8 Mar 1907; NB Medical Registers; Stewart


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