Duncan MacRae, father of Mrs. John F. MacEwen, was born in Scotland. Like many of their fellow Highlanders, he and his wife were victims of the new craze of that part of many of the Lairds of Scotland, to own exclusive deer parks. The farmers were turned from the farms where for centuries their fore-fathers had lived and were forced to emigrate. He and his wife and two children set sail for Canada in the year 1849. On the way across the ocean, one of their children contracted a fever and died. The fear of the disease on shipboard was so great that it is said she turned grey in a single night. They settled near Moose Creek.
Their family consisted of:
- Alexander born in Scotland. Married Annie MacRae of Lancaster. They went West and settled in Carlyle, Sask. They were one of the early arrivals in that part of the country. They had five of a family.
- John a storekeeper in Carlyle.
- Christina (Mrs. Dodds)
- Duncan a doctor
- Isabella a school teacher
- Donald Colin (DC) a very successful doctor in Regina. He served in World War I
- Catharine (Mrs. Alex MacDougall) lived west of St. Elmo. They had three of a family.
Sandy Duncan who lived on the old farm. He married Daisy Kennedy a school teacher, and had two boys.
- Christina (Mrs. Robert MacIntosh). They have five girls and a boy. They lived in Ottawa. (The painting of the fall colours in the Gatineau which has hung in various places in my abodes from 1953 to present was given to Beth as a wedding present by a daughter, Alexina. John Ogilvie, the son of another daughter, went to Macdonald College with Jack and Beth.)
- Ella died at sixteen years of age.
- Jessie (Mrs. Thomas Hawley) Their family are:
- Catharine married Rev. E.J. Farley of Oneonto, New York. He was 46 years in this charge.
- Christy (Pet) a milliner in Malone, New York.
- Elizabeth married to Dr. S.C. Coleman, a dentist.
- Martha, Mrs. Dan Flack. She has one boy, and lives in Malone, N.Y.
- Christy, Mrs. Byron Trussell. Their family were: Earl, Ray, Jessie, and Aden.
- Donald married Mary Ann MacRae. They lived near Avenmore. They had seven children.
- John D. in Maxville.
- Alexander a chemical engineer in Ottawa (They lived across the street from us on Clemow Avenue for a number of years and before that lived near the public school I attended and in a house next to my good friend Cairine Hodgkin - now Mrs. Keith Ingold, and Florences good friend, Kay Burgess. Kay was Florences Maid-of-Honour. Alex and Irene MacRae had six children, John Fraser who died young, Jean, Donalda, Marion, Betty and Bob. Betty was older than Beth and Bob younger. Alex MacRae proposed the toast to the Bride at Beth and Jacks wedding.)
- Walter lived on a farm near Moose Creek.
- Margaret (Greta) married an Anglican Minister.
- D.A. an unmarried farmer.
- Marion lives at Moose Creek.
- William a lawyer in Ottawa.
- Ellen Flora who married John F. MacEwen
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