Welcome descendants of Ranald MacIsaac MacDonald b.1754 in Invernesshire, Fort Augustus, Scotland and Janet Cameron b. 1783 in Lochiel, Scotland. Ranald and Janet married in Scotland in 1797. Of their eight children, seven migrated to Glengarry, Ontario, the eldest chose Australia.

Ranald and Janet settled on Lot 25, 4th conc. Kenyon, Glengarry, Ontario.

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St. Anthony's Parish

By 1914, the villages of Apple Hill and Monkland with their surrounding areas had become thriving communities but they were faced with many difficulties and hardships. One of the greatest of these was the fact that there was no Catholic Church which these God-believing people could attend easily. Read more...

St. Raphael's Ruins

In 1970 a fire consumed the church of St. Raphael's, one of the earliest Roman Catholic churches in English-speaking Canada. Fortunately the outer walls were spared and today its impressive scale and fine masonry work continue to attract the tourists to the site. The Ruins were declared a National Historic Site in 1999. Read more...

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St. Anthony's Parish, Apple Hill, Ontario...

Last week, as I was driving from Ottawa to Montreal, I took a different route. Highway 138 to 43. The turn to Apple Hill was much further down than I remembered. How long has it been since I had been this way? Probably almost 20 years.

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I turned in to St. Anthony's Parish.

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I hoped to take pictures of the headstones that I had seen many years ago. Even 20 years ago, the headstones were hard to read and it took me a while ...

I first found the marker's for Ranald MacDonald and Douglas Claire MacDonald.

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Two sons killed in two seperate Wars!

Tour of the cemetary

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There were several MacDonalds...

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Just as the sun was beginning to set, I found the marker's that years ago I assumed were the right ones. I'll post them on a seperate page to keep the page-loading time down... next page

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