(died 24 April 1912), occasional writer. (Miss A. S. Mcdonald) Born perhaps at South Lancaster, GC. Parents: Ranald Sandfield Macdonald and his wife Janet McEdward. Annie Sandfield’s health is described as never having been robust. An obituary in the Montreal Herald stated, “She was highly cultured and enjoyed a wide reputation as an able and graceful writer. Contributions from her pen have appeared in many of the leading Canadian newspapers and periodicals, and in various American and British publications.” No copy of an article by her or even title of an article has come to light during the research for the present dictionary. By the familiar custom of the time, some of the articles may have been anonymous. She was the sister of Mrs Helen McIntyre and Louise Sandfield Macdonald and another sister was the first wife of Sir Donald Macmaster, and she was the sister of John Sandfield Macdonald, lawyer, the namesake of the premier. Place of death: South Lancaster, GC. She was Protestant, presumably a Presbyterian. The burial was at St. Andrew’s cemetery, South Lancaster, but there is no gravestone with her name (family gravestone only). She never married. She must be distinguished from her first cousin, another Annie Macdonald (1848-1927) of the “Sandfield” family, who was the daughter and hostess of the Hon. D. A. Macdonald. For a literary contemporary in the “two Lancasters,” see R. S. Knight.
Glengarry News 26 April 1912 (brief notice), death notice & (repr. from Montreal Herald) obituary, Cornwall Standard 26 April & 3 May 1912