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 ====== McDonald, John, of Garth ======
-(c. 1771-25 Jan. 1866), fur trader. (known as John McDonald of Garth. Also, among the fur traders he was called Le Bras Croche, from a withered arm.) Born at Garth, a property of his family near Callendar, Perthshire, Scotland. to John McDonald, a captain in the 84th Royal Highland Emigrant Regiment, and his wife Magdeleine Small. John, the subject of the present article, was a fur trader with the North West Company from 1791 (partner 1800). He took command of Astoria in 1813, after its surrender or sale to the Nor’Westers. He retired from the fur trade in the fall of 1814. After a period in Montreal, he bought in 1816 a 750-acre property at Grays Creek a few miles east of Cornwall just on the Stormont side of the Glengarry-Stormont border. This was part of a 1200-acre land grant made to the Loyalist James Gray (see Robert Gray).
+(c. 1771-25 Jan. 1866), fur trader. (known as John McDonald of Garth. Also, among the fur traders he was called Le Bras Croche, from a withered arm.) Born at Garth, a property of his family near Callendar, Perthshire, Scotland. to John McDonald, a captain in the 84th Royal Highland Emigrant Regiment, and his wife Magdeleine Small. John, the subject of the present article, was a fur trader with the North West Company from 1791 (partner 1800). He took command of Astoria in 1813, after its surrender or sale to the Nor’Westers. He retired from the fur trade in the fall of 1814. After a period in Montreal, he bought in 1816 a 750-acre property at Grays Creek a few miles east of Cornwall just on the Stormont side of the Glengarry-Stormont border. This was part of a 1200-acre land grant made to the Loyalist James Gray (see [[gray_robert_isaac_dey|Robert Gray]]).
 <tab>McDonald operated his Grays Creek estate with the aid of tenant farmers. He also bought land extensively elsewhere, having some 7000 acres in various locations by the 1840s, most of it unimproved land with little likelihood of it yielding immediate revenue except from lumbering. Some of this land was near the Ottawa River, in the Ottawa District. He had modest holdings also in Lancaster and Charlottenburgh Townships. He owned 100 acres in Charlottenburgh immediately adjoining his original Grays Creek estate in Stormont County.