Lives of the First World War

This community respectfully remembers the members of the McDonald (shown in the death records as MacDonald) family killed in the Halifax explosion. Margaret McDonald (nee Jackson) perished together with her married daughter Mary Elizabeth Boutilier, her daughters Ethel and Annie, sons Arthur, Allan, Carroll and Charles, son-in-law Carroll Boutilier and baby grandsons Vincent and Carroll Boutilier (Mary's husband and sons). Margaret McDonald's husband Vincent, a locomotive fireman, and son Gordon survived the explosion and Vincent had the heart-breaking task of identifying his family. The Jackson family lost other family members in this truly awful disaster.

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