DONALD D. McLEOD. 



	Although he started out in the business world with neither influence
nor capital and few educational advantages, Donald D. McLeod has been
able, by his industry, fundamental honesty and sound business judgment,
of to clear the hurdles of fortune and reach a goal that has been attained by
few of the men who started ahead of him in the race. He was born in
1865. His parents, Donald and Bella (Mclveson) McLeod, came from the
Isle of Skye and settled in Prince Edward Island years ago.  In 1891,
after a varied career in his youth and early manhood, Donald D. McLeod
determined to try his fortune in the new fields of western Canada and
accordingly arrived in Prince Albert in that year with one dollar and
fifty cents in his pocket and a great many "castles in Spain". He spent
ninety cents of his precious capital for a bucksaw and got a job sawing
wood with the Indians and half-breeds. As he had never in his life be-
fore used a bucksaw his unhardened muscles were tortured by this labor
and	and he was soon forced to seek other means of earning a livelihood. For
two years he worked about the town doing odd jobs, and accumulated
enough money to rent the Royal Hotel. This was a little hostelry when
he acquired it but he built up a brisk business and later enlarged it. In
company with a man by the name of Courtney he brewed the first beer
ever made in Saskatchewan.  In 1894 he sold out the Royal Hotel and
moved to Moose Jaw, where he bought the Windsor Hotel and continued
in that business with success until he came to Regina in 1899.  In the
capital city he purchased the Windsor Hotel, which became one of the
most popular in Regina under his able management. Mr. McLeod was so
well liked by the traveling public that he never had a vacant room, thus
between the hotel proper and the adjacent bar, he made a great deal of
money in the next few years, after coming from Moose Jaw. When the
hotel burned to the ground in a great fire, in 1906, it was not rebuilt, al
though Mr. McLeod still owns the site, which is now one of the valuable
pieces of property in that district of the city.
	Some time before this fire occurred Mr. McLeod had begun investing
his money in Regina real estate and after 1906 confined his energies en-
tirely to the real estate and insurance business, with remarkable success.
lie owns much residential property in the city and a number of business
blocks. It was estimated in 1912 that his property had a market value of
half a million dollars and in the ensuing decade the value of his hold-
ings have been enhanced by rising values and the growth of the city.
That year he erected fourteen buildings, some of which he has sold on the
partial payment plan and others he is renting to good advantage.
	In 1895 Mr. McLeod was married to Miss Annie McKenty, daughter
of John McKenty, who came from County Antrim, Ireland.  Mr. and
Mrs. MeLeod have become the parents of three children: Roy and Rod-
crick; and a little girl, Gladys, who died in March, 1918, at the age of
ten years and eight months. Roy is a graduate of the Collegiate Insti-
tute and is now connected with Simpson's, while Roderick is still pursuing
his studies at the Separate School.  Mrs. McLeod is an able business
woman and has been of great assistance to her husband in his various
undertakings, as well as conducting some important enterprises herself.
She manages an excellent, up-to-date boarding house and several pieces
of property, which she is renting. In her religious faith she is a devout
member of the Roman Catholic church.  Mr. McLeod, however, retains
his affiliations with the Presbyterian church, in which he was reared.
it is not too eulogistic to say that no one in Regina is better known nor
more popular than "D. D.", as Mr. McLeod is familiarly called.  He
possesses a genius for making friends, which is, perhaps, one of the se-
crets of his tremendous success in the business world. He has, however,
displayed in his career many other qualities that command the admira-
tion of and are worthy of emulation by those of the younger generation
who would attain his goal.


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