Builders & Businessman
Editorial research draft. These candidate profiles retain the supplied evidence and review notes. Uncertain identities and claims require resolution before public use. Inclusion does not imply cemetery burial.
Ronald ban MacDonald
Big Cape tailor branch
Remembered as a carpenter and church builder associated with St Margaret’s, St Columba’s, and St Mary’s in Souris. The comments also mention fiddle playing.
Evidence: Recovered comment REC-PCM-02995 / PCM-5996; REF-2937; inherited citation Ch.3 p.26.
Review: Verify the original page and church building dates. The inherited chapter and printed-page combination needs checking.
Charles D MacPhee
Big Pond MacPhee family; later Denver
The McQuaid narrative points to the Colorado lumber enterprise. A supplied 1878 newspaper account gives much fuller detail about Charles’s planing mill and building contracts, and identifies him as a nephew of Rev Pius McPhee.
Evidence: Recovered McQuaid Ch.14 p.177; REF-2812; Charlottetown Examiner 15 February 1878, quoting Denver Daily Tribune; latest biography comment.
Review: Strong candidate for an expanded migration and business story. Retain the discrepancy between recorded birth year and claimed years in the trade.
Angus Daniel MacDonald or McDonald
California; family connections reported to Crooked River and Naufrage
Recovered narratives connect a Southern Pacific railway president with MacEachern and Blue MacDonald families. They also mix his biography with that of an older Angus who married in 1875.
Evidence: Recovered McQuaid Ch.8 p.120 and Ch.12 p.151; STY-3272 and STY-3953; REF-2620; Pacific Electric Magazine July–August 1932 for external career research.
Review: Research lead. Separate father, son, marriages, and competing maternal ancestry before publishing the precise family chain.
Herman MacDonald
Hay River origins; Black Bush and Hermanville
The comments describe a farmer and entrepreneur operating a hotel, store, post office, and lobster factory, and associate Hermanville’s name with him.
Evidence: Recovered McQuaid Ch.13 p.164 and Ch.11 narrative; REF-1692 and REF-2398; STY-3946.
Review: Verify same-person identity across recovered records and check the place-name history before presenting the naming as settled.