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

the different creeks, and a small trick box which he made out of a mammoth tusk which was found by one of the miners.

MOTHER

My mother passed Grade X in Belle River school, which was a graded school of two rooms, but she did not go

to Prince of Wales College, as her mother had died and her father was alone. One of her sisters was married

and the other sister was teaching school. One time her teaching sister got sick and my mother taught in her place for a short time in Mount Vernon. She had a very good education for that time, and she loved poetry. I remember her waiting for the Family Herald and Weekly Star to arrive so she could read the poetry. She was very anxious that her children would get an education, as no one had passed Grade X in Little Sands for some 50 years, and that was necessary in order to attend Prince of Wales College. She sent my oldest sister to Belle River school, which had a first class teacher, while Little Sands had the usual third class teacher. Her two older children went

to Boston in their late teens to work at housework. One later became a store manager, while the other one became a registered nurse. My mother felt that I should go to school and become Presbyterian minister. I remember her disappointment when, at about the age of eight, I told her I wanted to be a doctor, although the aim of many boys at that time was to become an engineer on the train. Mother was very good in mathematics, and if the teacher could not do a sum in arithmetic, mother was always able to get the right answer. She seemed to work backwards by letting one equal the answer. I later found that she was using the “one" as I later used it in Algebra. It is doubtful if she ever

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