McDonald, John Duncan
Birth Year:
1887
Ref: Sim. Spotlight March 29, 1967 Born Jan. 1st, 1887 at Antigonish, Nova Scotia, John’s father was a farmer near there. By the time John was 19 or 20 he had landed in Hedley BC and was working for GP Jones and the Daily Reduction Co. Mine. He worked for the Canada Copper Co. in 1913 at Copper Mtn. and was there when the bunkhouse burned. He has loaned pictures of Nickel Plate and the Copper Mountain. He was awarded the Provincial Centennial Pioneer Medallion in Sept. 1971