(died 13 June 1909), author. Born presumably GC. Parents: Ranald Sandfield Macdonald and his wife Janet McEdward. Helen Macdonald was married in 1877 to Alexander Fraser McIntyre. She was described in her obituaries as a well-known political hostess in Ottawa. “[D]uring the long period when the Liberal party sat in the cold shades of Opposition, her drawing room [in Ottawa] was perhaps one of the most popular, as it certainly always was, one of the most open places of resort for the big guns of the party. There, on a Sunday afternoon especially, one was always sure to find Mackenzie, Blake, Halton, Huntington, Anglin, Laflamme, Laurier, Moss, Mills, Burpee, Smith, and others of the great parliamentarians of those days.” The obituary in the Glengarry News, a Liberal organ edited by a close relative of Mrs McIntyre, noticed her strong Liberal connections, but added that the Conservatives also shared in the “generous hospitality” of the McIntyre couple. Perhaps the writer felt some correction was necessary to over-exuberant reports elsewhere about her Liberal connections. Or perhaps what he was taking into account was merely the shift of opinions which made her husband, eventually, a Conservative. She was the author of a “handbook of Ottawa,” which Lord Minto, the governor general, is said to have praised highly. (It has not been possible to identify this volume, which may have been anonymous.) She was also in charge, as a journalist, over a section of the Ottawa Citizen. The Ottawa Citizen obituary called her “this brilliant, brave and devoted daughter of old Glengarry.” Presbyterian. She died at her home in Ottawa, after a long and difficult illness, three children surviving her. Burial was at Beechwood Cemetery. She was the niece of John Sandfield Macdonald the premier and of the Hon. D. A. Macdonald, and was the sister of Annie Sandfield Macdonald and of the first wife of Sir Donald Macmaster and of another John Sandfield Macdonald, a lawyer at South Lancaster.

Cornwall Standard 18 June 1909 (partly quoted from Ottawa Citizen obit., QF: Ottawa Citizen parts of this obit.), Glengarry News 18 June 1909 * Ross, Lancaster, 227, 228