{"id":8347,"date":"1878-10-29T12:04:00","date_gmt":"1878-10-29T19:56:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peipioneercemetery.com\/staging\/?p=8347"},"modified":"2026-10-29T12:06:03","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T19:06:03","slug":"builders-businessman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peipioneercemetery.com\/staging\/builders-businessman\/","title":{"rendered":"Builders & Businessman"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Editorial research draft.<\/strong> 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ronald ban MacDonald<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Big Cape tailor branch<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Remembered as a carpenter and church builder associated with St Margaret\u2019s, St Columba\u2019s, and St Mary\u2019s in Souris. The comments also mention fiddle playing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Evidence:<\/strong> Recovered comment REC-PCM-02995 \/ PCM-5996; REF-2937; inherited citation Ch.3 p.26.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Review:<\/strong> Verify the original page and church building dates. The inherited chapter and printed-page combination needs checking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Charles D MacPhee<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Big Pond MacPhee family; later Denver<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The McQuaid narrative points to the Colorado lumber enterprise. A supplied 1878 newspaper account gives much fuller detail about Charles\u2019s planing mill and building contracts, and identifies him as a nephew of Rev Pius McPhee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Evidence:<\/strong> Recovered McQuaid Ch.14 p.177; REF-2812; Charlottetown Examiner 15 February 1878, quoting Denver Daily Tribune; latest biography comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Review:<\/strong> Strong candidate for an expanded migration and business story. Retain the discrepancy between recorded birth year and claimed years in the trade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Angus Daniel MacDonald or McDonald<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

California; family connections reported to Crooked River and Naufrage<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Evidence:<\/strong> Recovered McQuaid Ch.8 p.120 and Ch.12 p.151; STY-3272 and STY-3953; REF-2620; Pacific Electric Magazine July\u2013August 1932 for external career research.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Review:<\/strong> Research lead. Separate father, son, marriages, and competing maternal ancestry before publishing the precise family chain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Herman MacDonald<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Hay River origins; Black Bush and Hermanville<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The comments describe a farmer and entrepreneur operating a hotel, store, post office, and lobster factory, and associate Hermanville\u2019s name with him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Evidence:<\/strong> Recovered McQuaid Ch.13 p.164 and Ch.11 narrative; REF-1692 and REF-2398; STY-3946.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Review:<\/strong> Verify same-person identity across recovered records and check the place-name history before presenting the naming as settled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

External references<\/h2>\n\n\n\n