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Cameron Walter MacDonald
c.1922/23–open
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Cameron Walter MacDonald grew up in the William C. “Bill Cole” MacDonald and Willena “Lena Bill” MacCallum family on Pictou Island. The 1931 census records Cameron, age eight, in that household with sisters Janet and Lorraine. In 1949 a Cameron Walter MacDonald married Clara Agnes Cheverie and travelled to Pictou Island by ski-plane on the same day, creating a striking link between family history and the Island’s changing winter transportation. PIHS church remembrance also includes a Cameron MacDonald in wartime service, but that service identity still requires direct confirmation before it is attached to this biography.
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195 enumerated residents in 37 original census family units. These are source households, not inferred genealogical branches or street addresses. Cancelled entries are excluded; source spellings and recorded ages are retained.
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Daniel MacCallum & Susanna Robertson MacCallum
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- William Creighton “Bill Cole” MacDonald → parent of Helen Lorraine MacDonald MacMillan
- Willena “Lena Bill” MacCallum MacDonald → parent of Helen Lorraine MacDonald MacMillan
- William Creighton “Bill Cole” MacDonald ↔ spouse of Willena “Lena Bill” MacCallum MacDonald
- William Creighton “Bill Cole” MacDonald → parent of Cameron Walter MacDonald
- Willena “Lena Bill” MacCallum MacDonald → parent of Cameron Walter MacDonald
- Helen Lorraine MacDonald MacMillan ↔ sibling of Cameron Walter MacDonald