DONALD J. McCARTHY.
 


	Donald J. McCarthy is a prominent member of the community of Wil-
kie, where he is active as Deputy Local Registrar, Deputy Clerk of the
District Court and Deputy Sheriff. He was born in Souris, Prince Ed-
ward Island, in October of the year 1879, a son of Captain Timothy and
Annastia (Meany) McCarthy. His father was a sea captain and followed
the sea all of his life. He died in 1898, and Mrs. Mccarthy passed away
in 1897.
	The public schools of Souris, Prince Edward Island, afforded Donald
J. McCarthy his preliminary education and subsequently he enrolled in
the Prince of Wales College at Charlottetown, from which institution he
was graduated with the class of 1897. He then taught school four years
and in 1900 came west to Regina, having been sent there by the Royal
North West Mounted Police, which body he had joined in Montreal.  He
took a training course in Regina and was stationed with various detach-
ments throughout Saskatchewan, Manitoba and Alberta for a period of
seven years.  During that time he rose to the rank of acting sergeant
major at Battleford and there received his discharge in 1907.  Mr. Mc-
Carthy was a member of the Mounted Police corps that represented the
police at King Edward's Coronation, going to the ceremony from Leth-
bridge in 1902.  From 1907 until 1912 he was homestead inspector of
Battleford district and from 1912 to 1913 was inspector of telephones
for the northern division of the province of Alberta. In the latter year
he returned to Saskatchewan as Local Registrar of the new Judicial Dis-
trict of Scott, which was later transferred to Wilkie in the rearrangement
of judicial districts under the management of sheriffs.  Since that time
Mr. McCarthy has become Deputy Sheriff and local Registrar and Clerk
of the District Court. He is efficient in his services and has won the con-
fidence and esteem of all with whom he comes into contact. Mr. McCarthy
has farming interests here, and was active in the cultivation of a farm
in Lloydminster district, where he went with the Barr colony in the year
1903.
In September, 1906, Mr. McCarthy was married to Miss Muriel Harvey
of Torquay, Devonshire, England.  They have two children: Patricia,
born in August, 1911; and Donalda, horn in August, 1922. Mr. McCarthy
is a  consistent communicant of the Catholic church and fraternally he is
identified with the Knights of Columbus. He is a member of the Wilkie
Tennis Club and of the Curling Club, of which latter organization he has
been secretary for years. He has had an active and varied career and the
success he has achieved is the result of his own intelligently directed
efforts.


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