by Kevin Macdonald I recently met a man I have known for years. His name is Lester Swain, but I did not know that he had worked with our grandfather as a fireman on the railroad. He told me this story. He had met another man, James Skinner, who also worked as a fireman for [...]
Characters • Macdonald, Jack D • Skinner, James • Stories • Storytellers • Swain, Lester • told by Kevin Macdonald | Dave Ferguson April 2, 2006 | 
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by Frank Macdonald [This] 1935 photo of Jack D and Annabel is Jack D.’s railroad pass with his wife’s photo on it so that she could travel free as well, along with the children. The story that photo reminds me of is one my father told me. He was in grade 10 and on a [...]
Characters • Macdonald, Freddie • Macdonald, Greet • Macdonald, Jack D • Rankin, Annie Belle • Stories • Storytellers • told by Frank Macdonald | Dave Ferguson March 5, 2006 | Comments (0)
by Greet Macdonald as told to David Ferguson [Hughie Ferguson's brother Johnny] died before John [Ferguson] was born [April, 1948]. I went home from Halifax because we didn’t have any money to have a baby in Halifax, and it would be cheaper at home. So I went home to Inverness in March, and Johnny Ferguson [...]
Characters • Ferguson, Hughie • Ferguson, John • Ferguson, Johnny • Ferguson, Mattie • Ferguson, Sadie • Macdonald, Freddie • Macdonald, Greet • Macdonald, Jack D • Rankin, Annie Belle • Stories • Storytellers • told by Greet Macdonald | Dave Ferguson February 20, 2006 | Comments (3)
by Frank Macdonald After his retirement from the Canadian National Railway (CNR) Jack D. went on a trip around the continent. He had a railway pass for the CNR and at that time railway companies in both the United States and Canada honoured the brotherhood of railroad men so the pass meant travelling free in [...]
Coady, Bernie • Grable, Betty • Macdonald, Billie • Macdonald, Edith • Macdonald, Greet • Macdonald, Jack D • Stories • Storytellers • told by Frank Macdonald | Dave Ferguson February 10, 2006 | Comments (1)
by John Ferguson When my grandfather, “Jack D”, was visiting our home in Detroit, Michigan one particular time, he was sitting in a chair reading the newspaper. He wore a hearing aid, which in those days entailed a little box that men put in their shirt pockets. This particular day, my brothers David and Art [...]
Characters • Ferguson, Art • Ferguson, David • Ferguson, John • Macdonald, Jack D • Stories • Storytellers • told by John Ferguson | Dave Ferguson February 9, 2006 | Comments (2)
