Oct 1939
John J. MacDonald. (Brierly Brook). Sudden and unexpected passing….Born at Arisaig. 1908 married Margaret Jane Chisholm, Cape George…..Beside his sorrowing wife and three sons, John, Colin and Lauchlin and James Clarence, who were present at his bedside he is also survived by a son Dan A of South Porcupine, Ont. Four daughters Kathleen, Mrs. Walter Trask, Brookline, Mass; Mary Margaret and Genevieve in Cambridge……A daughter Hughena predeceased him by seven years…. Buried at St. Ninians.