University of Manitoba: Prairie Immigration



The Collected Archives Czech Hallama Family fonds Marketa Newman fonds Danish Per Holting fonds English Spencer Family fonds German Frederick Philip Grove fonds Dieter Roger fonds Icelandic Skapti Arason fonds Simon Simonarson fonds Irish Dixon/Baker Family fonds Jewish Sybil Shack fonds Rumanian Tennenhouse Family fonds Scottish Copland, Hunter and Anderson Family fonds MacDonald Family fonds Turks and Caicos Islands Lewis St. George Stubbs fonds Ukrainian Alpha Omega Society fonds Michael Ewanchuk fonds Klymkiw Family fonds Bill Lobchuk fonds Parks Canada fonds G.W. Simpson fonds Mary Wawrykow fonds Bill Wsiaki fonds Anne Yanchyshyn fonds Roman Yereniuk fonds Various Ethnicities & Immigration Policy Ed Kleiman fonds A.S. Morton Manuscript Collection W.C. Murray fonds Mabel Timlin fonds Winnipeg Tribune fonds	Click here to view the digitized archival material. Institution: University of Manitoba Archives & Special Collections Collection Identifier: MSS SC 129 Title: MacDonald Family fonds Dates: 1912-1988 Extent: 20 cm of textual records Biographical Sketch: John Duncan MacDonald and his wife Anne immigrated to Manitoba from Scotland in 1872. John McIntyre MacDonald was one of their nine children. He married Sarah McMillan and they had three children. John Duncan was the second of three, and he married Margaret Greer. They had four children, the second being Robert James. Robert married Edna Thompson in 1948 and they had four children. John McIntryre homesteaded and over time more land was bought around the original homestead and the land was passed on to descendants. Digitized Material: The digitized material from the MacDonald Family fonds consists of John D. MacDonald's pocket diary (1912), which detailed the homesteading experience of this Scottish immigrant, and the family history of the MacDonald's. Click here to view a full description of the MacDonald Family fonds.