Note 104 — Chapter XV

John McDonald of Garth—nicknamed “Bras Croche” (Crooked arm), from a deformity due to an accident—was a Scotch Highlander who came to Canada in 1791, at the age of seventeen. He was in the Western country, chiefly in the Saskatchewan, almost continuously from 1791 to 1812. In the latter year he returned to England, but left in February, 1813, for the Columbia River. He was in the party, with Franchère, which left Fort George April 4, 1814 (see chapter xxi, post). In 1816 McDonald retired from the company and settled in Upper Canada, where he lived until 1860. In 1859, he wrote a brief sketch of his life. See Masson, Les Bourgeois de la Compagnie du Nord-Ouest (Quebec, 1890), ii, pp. 1-59.—Ed.