Register entry 030 - Duncan MacArthur
Visited the Bell Farm on Aug. 14, 1884 - Duncan MacArthur (1840-1907) was a Scottish businessman and banker who moved to Canada in 1865. He was manager of the Winnipeg branch of the Merchants Bank of Canada, and then became president of the Commercial Bank of Manitoba from 1885 until it ceased operations in 1893. MacArthur was president of the Bell Farm in 1885 and remained associated with the Farm for several years.
In August of 1884 he was visiting the Bell Farm with his brother, Alexander and family (see Entries 24,25 26,and 27).
Duncan MacArthur was married three times:
1873 - Catherine Robertson
1876 - Christian Ross
1886 - Elizabeth Sydney Pauline McKeagney
MacArthur left Winnipeg in 1898, after the failure of the Commercial Bank, and lived with his daughter in Chicago until his death in 1907.
SOURCES":
Duncan MacArthur signature - letter from MacArthur to Sir John A. Macdonald, 1888 - http://data2.archives.ca/e/e316/e007899758-v8.jpg
http://collectionscanada.gc.ca/pam_archives/index.php?fuseaction=genitem.displayEcopies&lang=eng&rec_nbr=555327&title=%5bCorrespondence%5d.&ecopy=e008602184
"Memorable Manitobans" website: Duncan MacArthur (1840-1907) - http://www.mhs.mb.ca/docs/people/macarthur_d.shtml
Duncan McArthur/ Emerson Manitoba/US Consular Agent in Representative Men of Manitoba, 1902, p. 135 – photo - https://archive.org/stream/representativeme00winnuoft#page/134/mode/2up
http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/databases/orders/001022-119.01-e.php?&sisn_id_nbr=34672&page_sequence_nbr=1&interval=20&&PHPSESSID=lj0qkrbudcleaven0srqsrmt90
"The Scotsman in Canada, 1911", p.357-359 - Duncan MacArthur, Alexander MacArthur and JD MacArthur - https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/bcbooks/items/1.0222793#p377z-5r0f
MacArthur Obituary # 1 - "Winnipeg Tribune", Jan. 23, 1907
MacArthur Obituary # 2 - "Winnipeg Tribune", Jan. 28, 1907
"Dictionary of Canadian Biography" - http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio.php?BioId=40987
"Legacy of Stone", 2008 - p. 76 - reference to Duncan MacArthur and Anglican Bishop Robert Machray and the Bird Family / farm in the nearby Qu'Appelle Valley.
RESEARCH BY:
Michelle Cabana, Saskatoon, Sask. and Margaret Hryniuk, Regina, Sask.