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MACDONALD, DUGALD STANISLAUS (1825-1867)

MACDONALD, DUGALD STANISLAUS, Catholic priest and teacher; b. Scotland, 1825; d. St John River, 3 Aug 1867.

Dugald S. MacDonald was trained for the priesthood at the College of the Propaganda in Rome and arrived in Prince Edward Island around 1857. He served at Rustico and Seven Mile Bay until he came to Chatham in 1861, as successor to Father James Daly. Daly had been on loan to Bishop James Rogers from the archbishop of Halifax to help get St Michael's male academy underway. At the same time, he assisted the bishop with his pastoral duties at Chatham and Bay du Vin.

MacDonald undertook the same responsibilities as his predecessor, but a letter written to him by the bishop in February 1863 reveals that he was relieved of his duties in the recent past and was now being partially reinstated on strict conditions. He was not to leave the church grounds except if necessary and if granted specific permission; he was "to abstain in toto from all inebriating drink"; and he was to avoid "travelling in any private vehicle or promenading in the street in company with females." His role was to be confined to that of "president of the academy," and he would be called upon for pastoral work only if the bishop needed relief for any reason. The bishop had already taken similar disciplinary action against Father Samuel A. O'Sullivan, who was the "assistant president" of the academy between 1862 and 1864.

In 1864, after he had spent some time in retreat at the Trappist monastery at Tracadie, N.S., MacDonald was appointed missionary at St Francis in Madawaska County. Three years later he was drowned while fording the St John River with his horse and carriage on the way to the mission at Fort Kent, Maine.

Sources

[b] Lang [d] RC clergy files / Freeman 13 Aug 1867; Rogers papers


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