SAMUEL L. MACDONALD.  

	Samuel L. MacDonald, Indian agent of Battleford, was born at Stony
Mountain, Manitoba, in March of the year 1880, a son of Ewen and Eliza-
beth (Murray) MacDonald, the former a native of Scotland and the latter
of Manitoba. Ewen MacDonald came to Canada on an old sailing vessel
as a young man and went to work for the Hudson's Bay Company. Both
he and his brother remained with that company fifty years and were chief
factors in the enterprise. Mr. MacDonald died in March, 1907, and Mrs.
MacDonald died in April, 1903.
	Samuel L. MacDonald received his education in the Indian missionary
school in the Peace River district, his father being located there as chief
factor of the Hudson's Bay Company. This was some years before the
railroad entered Edmonton. Later Mr. MacDonald spent five years at
St. John's College in Winnipeg and then went to Ontario, where he re-
sided for ten years. When he moved away from that province he was
acting as purchasing agent for a steel corporation. In 1910 he moved
to Edmonton, Alberta, and for two years successfully conducted a tobacco
and barber shop. Selling out, he went to Prince Albert, Saskatchewan,
in 1912, as manager of the I. C. Fish Company, which was a trading
company dealing for the most part in live foxes, and he remained with
them until October, 1914, when the firm failed.  He then went to The
Pas, Manitoba, in the employ of the government, and worked as inspec-
tor on the fire patrol on the Hudson Bay Railroad. In January, 1916,
he became Indian agent at The Pas and in March, 1919, was transferred
to Battleford in the same capacity, and has been in charge of the local
office since that time.
	In September, 1905, Mr. MacDonald was married to Miss Hazel Har-
rington of Owen Sound, Ontario, and they have four children: Glenn,
born in October, 1907; Vernon, born in December, 1909; Gerald, born in
February, 1921; and Hazel Gertrude, born in August, 1923. Mr. Mac-
Donald has always followed an independent course in politics.  He is
ever cognizant of the duties and responsibilities as well as the privi-
leges of good citizenship and is a cooperant factor in the promotion of
any movement for the benefit of the community. His religious faith is
that of the Anglican church. Fraternally he is identified with the Masons
and the Knights of Pythias and socially he holds membership in the
Canadian Club and the Battleford Tennis and Curling Clubs.




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