McDonald & Var. | Metis, Algonquin, Blackfoot, Iroquois, Montagnais, Mixed-heritage: Scottish/Cree | Surname Anchor Post
Index: Indigenous, Metis & Mixed-Heritage Surname Anchor Posts
MacDonald / Macdonald – McDonald / Mcdonnald – Mcdonnel
Each of these posts is dedicated to one surname that is carried by someone connected to indigenous, Metis or mixed-heritage people in Canada. Please be aware that it’s a synthesis of the information I’ve collected in my personal research throughout the years and is by no means complete!
SURNAME NOTES | MCDONALD & VAR.
- Surname lists: Surname Anchor Posts, Iroquois, Metis (ON), Wabanaki
- Regions: Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Quebec, Western Canada
- Ethnicity: Metis, Algonquin, Blackfoot, Iroquois, Montagnais, Mixed-heritage: Scottish, Cree
- Associated surnames: Anderson, Atkiness, Allard, Atkinson, Basile / Bazile, Bear, Beaudry, Beauvais, Boucher, Burke / Bourque, Burns, Bryant, Cadotte, Calder, Campbell, Cardinal Cleary, Cook, Courtepatte, Decaire / Dicaire, Desjarlais, Desrochers, Ducharme, Dumont, Duncan, Durocher, Dusome, Eccles, Fadden, Ferris, Ferguson, Flett, Fraser, Gabriel, Garrow, George, Gleazer, Godon, Gordon, Green, Gunn, Hamelin, Hay, Heavy Runner, Henderson, Herne, Hill, Inkster, Jacco / Jacko / Jock, , Jack, James, Joachim, Johnston, Kirkness, Klyne, Laderoute, Langevin, Lapierre,Laprise, Larance / Laurance, Laurin, Lazare, L’Hirondelle, Lindstrom, Lizotte, Logan, Manson, McAulay, McCorrister, McDonnell / McDonald, McGhie, McKay, McLeod, Mercredi, Miruabeuit, Moar, Mowatt, Murray, Nanipo / Nanipou, Napane, Ostawenserahes, Patenaude, Peebles, Peel, Pheasnt, Presley, Quintal / Quintall, Raphael, Roach, Robillard, Rodgers, Rowland, Roy, Setter / Settee, Silver, Sylleboy, Swain, Tait, Tappe, Taylor, Thomason, Tourangeau, Turner, Verhelst, Verrault, Whetung, Whiteway, Williams.
- Misc.: 1. There are some Algonquin McDonnells who descend from John McDonnell / Mcdonald (son of Alexander McDonnell and Mary Ann McKay) and Marie Angelique / Manian Angelique Dufond / Osaabikwe (daughter of Amable Jean-Paul Dufond & Elizabeth Fisher.) [Source: Jean-Guy Paquin] 2. One branch of Western Metis McDonalds descends from John McDonald and Charlotte Inkster through their son: Donald McDonald (m. Margaret Turner) and their daughter Rosalie McDonald (m. Arthur Cummings Clare). 2. In Quebec there are many Montagnais McDonalds, as well as other McDonalds connected to the Iroquois. 3. My marriage database contains both Innu Montagnais First Nations individuals as well as mixed Montagnais / French marriages as listed in a study by the Communauté Métisse du Domaine du Roy et de la Seigneurie de Mingan. Some mixed French/Montagnais descendants self-identify as Metis (see Etienne Rivard’s discussion paper). 4. In Ontario there are three lines of recognized Metis descending from couples with a McDonnel/McDonald or MacDonald wife. a. Marie Cecile McDonnell dit Mawiskak and her husband Narcisse Pierre Dorion. b. Janet MacDonald and her husband Henry Charles Fraser c. Isabelle MacDonald and her husband Isaac Hunter. 5. In 1884, British General Charles Gordon was trapped in Sudan’s capital city Khartoum, so a rescue mission was organized that would involve watercraft on the River Nile. Canadian Voyageurs of Metis and First Nations background were recruited to carry out this mission. The Voyageurs succeeded in reaching Khartoum but they were too late to save Gordon as the city had already fallen to the Mahdists. There were 4 Metis McDonalds from St. Andrews involved in that expedition. Three were sons of John McDonald and Nancy Ferguson. They were Alexander, Donald and John McDonald. The fourth was William McDonald, son of Alex McDonald and Ann Tait. [Source: The Nile Voyageurs 1884-1885] 5. In 1872/1873 , a government survey was undertaken to determine the precise international border between Canada and the U.S.A. Part of the survey was assisted by Metis guides and Chippewa men who were employed as scouts. Two of these scouts were Adam McDonald and Donald McDonald (both sons of Donald “Big” Mcdonald & Jane Beaudry). Adam McDonald was married to Maria McKay (daughter of William McKay & Mary Bunn). Donald McDonald was the older of the two and was 49th Rangers’ Deputy Commander. Donald’s wife was Harriet Spence. [Source: The Boundary Commission’s Metis Scouts: The 49th Rangers, Larry Haag & Lawrence Barkwell]. 6. Hudson’s Bay Company has service records for over 20 individuals with a McDonald or McDonnell surname. Note: HBC service records relate to employees who worked in traditional indigenous territories and who may or may not have started mixed-heritage families. Scroll down to External Links for more information.
CENSUS DISTRICTS | MCDONALD & VAR.
ALBERTA
The Territories | Blood Reserve (1901)
The Territories | Blood Reserve McDonalds (1901) McDonald
The Territories (1901) MacDonald
The Territories | St. Albert (1901) Mcdonnald
Unorganized Territories | Athabaska A-4 (1901)
Unorganized Territories | Athabaska A-6 (1901)
Victoria | Fort Chipewyan (1911)
Victoria | Grand Rapids (1911)
BRITISH COLUMBIA
Yale-Cariboo | Okanagan (1911) MacDonald
MANITOBA
Selkirk | St. Andrews L-6 (1901)
Selkirk | St. Andrews L-7 (1901)
Selkirk | St. Clement McDonalds (1901) McDonald
NOVA SCOTIA
Hants | Shubenacadie 0-1 (1901)
ONTARIO
Addington | Palmerston and Canonto (1901) Apr 2022
Algoma | Michipicoten Harbour S-2 (1901)
Algoma | Rat Portage & Savanne Agency XX-2 (1901)
Algoma East | Chapleau (Township) (66) (St. John’s Residential School?) (1921) Mar 2022
Brant South | Tuscarora (1881) Feb 2022
Elgin West | Ridgetown (Town) F (1901) Apr 2022
Frontenac | Palmerston, North, South Canonto (1921) Mar 2022
Hastings East | Tyendinaga … (1901) Apr 2022
Kent | Harwich (1881) Feb 2022
Lambton West | Sombra and Walpole Island (1921) Mar 2022
Middlesex West | Caradoc (1881) Feb 2022
Nipissing | Mattawan Town 0(1)-1 (1901)
Ontario North | Indian Reserve (1921) Mar 2022
Renfrew North | Mattawa (1881) Mcdonnel
QUEBEC
Chicoutimi & Saguenay, Unorg. Terr. (1881) McDonald
Chicoutimi & Saguenay | Ouiatchouan (1901) Macdonald
Pontiac-Temiscamingue-Abitibi | Rupert House (1921) MacDonald
St. Regis McDonalds | Huntingdon (1901) McDonald
Unorg. Territory McDonalds | Pontiac (1901) McDonald
SASKATCHEWAN
Prince Albert | Petaquakeys I.R. (1911) MacDonald
Prince Albert | Desmarais in Townships 46 (1911) McDonald
The Territories | Devil Lake (1901) MacDonald
The Territories | La Corne (1901) Macdonald
The Territories | Lake La Ronge McDonalds (1901) McDonald
The Territories | Meota (1901) Macdonald
The Territories | Prince Albert (1901) McDonald
The Territories | Qu’Appelle Indian Agency (1911)
THE TERRITORIES
Unorganized Territories | Keewatin c-2 (1901)
Unorganized Territories | Keewatin C-6 (1901)
MARRIAGES | MCDONALD & VAR.
AION [CDN Marriage Extracts] [AB-Western Canada Metis Scrip] McDonald
ASAI [CDN Marriage Extracts] [Western Canada Metis Scrip] McDonald
B … [CDN Marriage Extracts] McDonald
BAST [CDN Marriage Extracts] [ON] McDonald
BLAN [CDN Marriage Extracts] [AB] McDonald
BRAS [CDN Marriage Extracts] [AB] McDonald
C … [CDN Marriage Extracts] [AB-Western Canada Metis Scrip] MacDonald
CARI [CDN Marriage Extracts] [AB-QC-Western Canada Metis Scrip] McDonald, Mcdonald
COON [CDN Marriage Extracts] [AB-Western Canada Metis Scrip]
DELM [CDN Marriage Extracts] [AB] McDonald
E … [CDN Marriage Extracts] [Western Canada Metis Scrip] McDonald
F … [CDN Marriage Extracts] [ON] McDonald, Mcdonnell
GIRO [CDN Marriage Extracts] [Western Canada Metis Scrip] McDonald
H … [CDN Marriage Extracts] [AB-QC-Western Canada Metis Scrip] Macdonald, McDonald
HERY [CDN Marriage Extracts] McDonald
J … [CDN Marriage Extracts] [ON] Mcdonald
JACQ [CDN Marriage Extracts] [AB-Western Canada Metis Scrip] McDonald, Mcdonald
L … [CDN Marriage Extracts] [AB] Mcdonald
LAHO [CDN Marriage Extracts] [ON] McDonald
LAUG [CDN Marriage Extracts] [QC] McDonald
LESO [CDN Marriage Extracts] [ON-Western Canada Metis Scrip] McDonald
M … [CDN Marriage Extracts] [BC-Western Canada Metis Scrip] Macdonald, MacDonald Mac Donald, McDonald, McDonnell
MCCU [CDN Marriage Extracts] [AB-MB-ON-QC-Western Canada Metis Scrip] Macdonald, McDonald, Mcdonald, McDonall, McDonnell
MEGA [CDN Marriage Extracts] [AB-Western Camada Metis Scrip] McDonald
N … [CDN Marriage Extracts] McDonald
OKAN [CDN Marriage Extracts] McDonald
P … [CDN Marriage Extracts] [Western Canada Metis Scrip] McDonald
PETE [CDN Marriage Extracts] [ON] Mcdonald
PIGE [CDN Marriage Extracts] [ON] Mcdonald
Q … [CDN Marriage Extracts] [SK-Western Canada Metis Scrip] McDonald
R … [CDN Marriage Extracts] [AB-BC-QC-Western Canada Metis Scrip] McDonald
SAUN [CDN Marriage Extracts] [AB-ON-Western Canada Metis Scrip] Macdonald, McDonald
SNOW [CDN Marriage Extracts] McDonald
T … [CDN Marriage Extracts] [Western Canada Metis Scrip] McDonald
WHE– Z [CDN Marriage Extracts] [BC-ON] Macdonald, Mcdonald
RELATED POSTS | MCDONALD & VAR.
INDEXES
Main Index: Canadian Census Extracts by Region & by Nation
Index: Canadian Marriage Extracts in Alphabetical Order
Index: First Nations and Metis Surname Lists
EXTERNAL LINKS
HBC Fort Pelly (63/64), Servants/Free Traders [Gabriel Dumont Institute]
McDonald, Archibald [Dictionary of Canadian Biography]
McDonell, John, Le Prêtre [Dictionary of Canadian Biography]
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