RONALD H. MACDONALD, M.D.
 


	Dr. Ronald Macdonald specializes in surgery and has a gratifying
practice in Saskatoon, as junior member of the firm of Munroe & Mac-
donald. He was born in Prince Edward Island, in October, 1886, a son of
Donald and Mary (Thornton) Macdonald, natives of Prince Edward
Island. The maternal grandfather was Speaker of the House for some
time. Donald Macdonald engaged in farming in Prince Edward Island
for the greater part of his life and won a comfortable competence as an
agriculturist. His death occurred in March, 1920. Mrs. Macdonald sur-
vives her husband and continues to reside in Prince Edward Island.
	In the pursuit of his education Ronald H. Macdonald attended the
public schools of Prince Edward Island and upon graduation from high
school enrolled in St. Dunstan's College at Charlottetown. Subsequently
he became a student at McGill University, from which institution he was
graduated with the M. D. degree in 1908. He then went to the United
States and did hospital work in New York and took postgraduate work
until 1913. In that year he came to Saskatoon and was engaged in prac-
tice when the Great war broke out. Dr. Macdonald was quick to put all
personal interests aside and enlist in the service of his country, going
overseas as captain in August of the year 1914. He saw active service in
most of the strategic battles of the war and was made a companion of the
Distinguished Service Order and received the M. C. He was twice men-
tioned in dispatches. Dr. Macdonald received his honorable discharge in
July, 1919, and returned to Canada with the rank of colonel. He imme
diately went to Saskatoon and formed a partnership for the practice of
his profession, with Dr. H. E. Munroe, under the style of Munroe & Mac-
donald.  That association has since been maintained and they have an
extensive and lucrative practice. Dr. Macdonald specializes in surgery,
in which he has won distinction. Extended mention of Dr. Munroe is made
on another page of this work.
	Dr. Macdonald is a fellow of the American College of Surgeons and
he holds membership in the Canadian and Saskatchewan Medical Asso-
ciations and the Saskatoon Academy of Medicine. His political views are
independent and he gives his support to the man he thinks best fitted
for the office without regard to party principles. His religious faith is
that of the Catholic church and he is an active member of the Knights of
Columbus. Socially he is connected with the Saskatoon Club, the Canad-
ian Club, the Riverside Country Club and the Saskatoon Golf Club. Dr.
Macdonald is accounted one of the energetic, prosperous and capable
young physicians and surgeons of the town, a stanch supporter of all
worthy and beneficial movements, and a general favorite among those
with whom he associates. He is unmarried.



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