187-11_q2-004
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Title: 187-11_q2-004
Full Text: _ CLANDONALD A Rural Catholic Community Clandonald is a small community lying 20 miles north of Vermilion, Alberta. No one would know, looking §t a recent telephone directory, that it was settled by immigrants from Britain.^ The town was named after one of the largest clans in Scotland, the Cl3n Donald, because the first settlers were from the Hebridean islands of Uist, Benbecula, and Barra. Later settlers were from Ireland and the North of England. All told, 100 families formed the colony; their common denominator was their Roman Catholic religion. They were catholic families brought to Canada by Father R.A. MacDonell. OBITUARY Roderick Andrew MacDonell, O.S.B., M.C., M.B.E., responsible for establishing more than 180 Scottish and Irish families, died in Scotland November 22, at the age of 90. An older sister, Ann Lawrence, 91 years of age, lives at Clandonald where 6 of Father MacDonell's nephews also reside. A niece, Sister Clare of the Sisters of St. Joseph of London is on the teaching , staff of Sacred Heart School, Edmonton. He.settled 120 families at Clandonald, 54 at St. ' prides, 'another 10 at Westlock and the Red Deer district. Born March 11, 3.S70, ordained at Fort Augustus Abbey 1896. In 1923 organized the first private British Empire Iminigration Aid Society in the British Empire, bringing out families from the Hebrides and Ireland. Directly responsible for 0 settling over 3,000 immigrants.' Awarded the • M.B.E. by the British government. (2) Returned to Scotland 1955. '

