A. Stewart MacDonald D.F.C., MD. C..M.

When I was in Dalhousie University, I gave the horse to a neighbour for the winter. One day he took him for a drive; when he went to feed him, Walkie was dead. The farrrer said, ”his heart failed.” He certainly had earned the $75.00 which I paid for him.

ANCESTORS

The earliest history of the MacDonalds was as early as the Vikings, during their period of exploration, over 500 years before Columbus came to America. The Vikings stretched their trading route from Newfoundland, Greenland, Iceland, England, Scotland, Ireland, France, Spain, tle Islands of the Mediterranean even up to Constantinople, and up the rivers leading back to Norway.

There was an opening for the Vikings following the fall (f the Roman empire. The Vikings did not have much krown history, and were considered barbarians by the man! people who had mostly taken on the religion of Rome and the remaining history we get of the Vikings was writen by the monks, who were the writers of history in the early days, and it is considered that they did not give the Vikings an honest report, especially as they did not have their religion. The early advances of the spread of the Vking type of civilization, especially of their ability of early 1avigation, was not left for history. Very little is learned ibout what Columbus heard from the Vikings about tle land to the West during his voyages to Iceland before l‘e went to America.

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