The Pictou Island horse-drawn hearse, illustration signed L. B. Jenson
Pictou Island Heritage Society

Pioneer Cemetery · Visitor guide

Cemetery Families

Explore surviving markers, photographs, inscriptions and family connections in the Pioneer Cemetery records.

Illustration: L. B. Jenson · PIHS collection.Read about the Island hearse →

Angus and Dollie MacDonald
Angus ‘Happy Angus’ and Adeline ‘Dollie’ MacDonald
Family collections

MacDonald / McDonald

Island portraits and family memories

Ron MacDonald oral-history context →East Lighthouse keeper stories →See 18 memorials on the PIHS layout →Browse the memorial photographs ↓
Connected cemetery record

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Choose a surname to discover memorial photographs, island stories and connections recorded on the stones.

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MacDonald / McDonald · memorial photographs

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Robert Rankin & Adeline MacDonaldPhotographs & story →Annabel MacLean & Frank MacDonaldPhotographs & story →John MacDonaldPhotographs & story →MacDonaldPhotographs & story →Archibald McDonald & Jessie McKenziePhotographs & story →Alex.r McDonaldPhotographs & story →Flora McDonald / McDonaldPhotographs & story →Charles MacCallum & Christy MacDonaldPhotographs & story →Kenneth McKenzie & Annie McDonald / McKenziePhotographs & story →John & Margaret MacDonaldPhotographs & story →Hector & Janet MacDonaldPhotographs & story →John McDonaldPhotographs & story →John and Flora McDonaldPhotographs & story →Angus and Dollie MacDonaldPhotographs & story →Captain Robert McDonaldPhotographs & story →Catherine McDonaldPhotographs & story →Colin MacDonald & Charlotte MacLeanPhotographs & story →Catherine McDonald & Laughlin McCallumPhotographs & story →
Connections remembered on the stones

Supported family connections

These connections are stated in marker transcriptions and are shown separately from broader family history. Additional vital, census, church or family records may add detail.

MacDonald / MacFarlane

Angus, Adeline and Robert MacDonald

Robert is identified as the son of Angus MacDonald and Adeline MacFarlane MacDonald.

The relationship is transcription-supported; burial status still requires more than the photograph alone.

The PIHS Rankin-Sibley collection identifies Angus ‘Happy Angus’ MacDonald with Adeline ‘Dollie’ MacFarlane, and a FamilySearch tree records their marriage and son Robert H. MacDonald. The civil marriage and Robert’s death registration remain the preferred controlling records.

About family connections

Family connections here follow the inscriptions and linked records. A shared surname or nearby stone alone does not establish a relationship.

Digital family connections

Explore connected records

Explore inscription-supported family connections and related archives. These links are for browsing records and do not describe a walking route.

Wider surname context · separate from personal identification

Available photographs and stories

These holdings concern people with this surname. They are not portraits of every person in the matching cemetery records. Read each caption and its evidence boundary before connecting an image to a person.

18 cemetery positions

MacDonald / McDonald

Angus and Dollie MacDonaldEnlarge & zoom
Angus ‘Happy Angus’ and Adeline ‘Dollie’ MacDonald
Margaret MacDonaldEnlarge & zoom
Margaret MacDonald · island nurse

The museum already connects Angus and Dollie MacDonald, nurse Margaret MacDonald, Ron MacDonald’s oral history, and several lighthouse keepers to photographs and longer stories.

Boundary: These are several different MacDonald households. The material must not be collapsed into one family line.

Angus and Dollie photograph →Ron MacDonald oral-history context →East Lighthouse keeper stories →

Some surname groups do not yet have an identified portrait or longer story. Their individual marker photographs and transcriptions remain available through the records.