Category: told by Frank Macdonald

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Tom Chew at Mattie Ferguson’s Store

by Frank Macdonald When Mattie had his store (for about 100 years) there was something unique to Inverness that took place in it. He had a soda fountain, a beautiful butterscotch-coloured top on a green base and behind that were all the wonders of the soda fountain for making milkshakes. There was a mine manager [...]

categories Chew, Tom • Ferguson, Mattie • Ferguson, Wesley • Macdonald, Frank • Stories • told by Frank Macdonald | Dave Ferguson February 9, 2006 | comments Comments (0)

Mattie Ferguson and Angus Y MacLellan

by Frank Macdonald In the early 1970s some friends and I received a grant to collect history and folklore in Inverness County. It would have been a much better project if we had known anything about what we were doing but our motives were pure and the ghosts and the stories were many, as were [...]

categories Ferguson, Mattie • MacLellan, Angus Y • Stories • told by Frank Macdonald | Dave Ferguson | comments Comments (1)

How Freddie Learned His Name

by Frank Macdonald My father told me that during the war, when he joined the Merchant Marines, he had to present a birth certificate as proof of identification. He sent home for his baptismal certificate and when it came he learned that he was Donald Angus, not Fred, Macdonald. He was also detained for a [...]

categories Characters • Macdonald, Freddie • Rankin, Catherine • Stories • Storytellers • told by Frank Macdonald | Dave Ferguson February 8, 2006 | comments Comments (1)

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