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Information from Pamela Russell, Rootsweb WorldConnect Project.

The McDonald Family by Helen McDonald Wreath, Lambton Settlers Series Volume 2, More Early Days Along the St. Clair, published by the Lambton Branch of the OGS (These articles were originally published in 1948-1949 as part of the Lambton Centennial Series in the Sarnia Observer):
In 1805, Hector McDonald of the Isle of Mull, and his wife Margaret McIntyre, set sail for Upper Canada and Baldoon with their five children, Margaret, Flora, Angus, Christina and Mary. They crossed the Atlantic safely enough but shortly after their arrival on the Sydenham fell victim to a plague now unknown to Lambton or Kent - malaria...
... Their one son, Angus had been born only in 1790 and was now but a stripling of fifteen years...Their one solace must have been the education they had provided him when they had sent him from Mull to a grammar school in Edinburgh.
...A school was in process of building near "The Forks" as Wallaceburg was then known, and Angus McDonald, proving his qualifications to the satisfaction of the pioneer school board became the first school-master.
...Angus McDonald threw school-teaching into the Snye and headed for Amherstburg to learn a more profitable vocation. He apprenticed himself to a tannery there...Angus McDonald built the river-front's first tannery in 1818...
Jane Bury, daughter of John Colbrook Bury and Elizabeth Traver, born in 1797 at Scotland, Oakland township, Brant county...daughter of an educated Englishman, was impressed by Angus' mind...Presbyterian Angus and Anglican Jane were married by a Methodist missionary, the Rev. James Evans...