1. James Clifford (b. October 30, 1889 – d. July 13, 1933) (44). The school picture on the right was taken in 1898 when he was 8 or 9 years old. Cliff was the eldest child of James and Frances MacDonald’s 12 children. After schooling, he worked with his father who was a very successful jobber in the lumber business. When his father died in 1913, Cliff was only 24 but took over as head of the large family of siblings. With his younger brother Wesley, he also took over his fathers lumbering operations at the Forks of Kedwich and supported his family financially until he was recruited in 1918, the last year of World War I and he had to give up operations at Kedgwick. The war ended before he was sent overseas and he

used to say the Germans heard he was coming so they quit. When Wes returned from the war, he joined Cliff in setting up a new lumbering operation up the Patapedia River. During this period they invited their friends and family up to stay in their lumber camps to hunt and fish in the fall. A great many photographs were taken, most of them probably by Cliff, who appears in only a few. He is however in the one on the left. L to R - Stella MacDonald; friend of Stella’s; Jack Wyers

(Frances’ brother); Hazel Mowat; one of the Ryan boys (druggist ): Evelyn Cogswell?; Clifford MacDonald; girl?;

Goog Mowat; girl?; Hal Mowat: Nita MacDonald.

Clifford also had an early model of a moving picture camera and recorded the log drives on the Restigouche. These films have been edited by a member of his son Ian’s family and are available on videotape at the Provincial Archives of NB in Fredericton. Clifford and Wes’s business was successful but, after a few years, they decided to break up and both started out on their own in 1921. On April 2, 1922, Cliff married Ruth Wainwright White Humble (b. 1899 – d. July, 1941) from Stanley, NB. (Ruth was the daughter of the late John A. Humble, of Stanley, NB). She was a teacher. They lived at 13 Stanley Street, Campbellton, NB They had 2 children:

1. James Ian (b. August 10, 1925) BScF,1949 UNB. He first worked as a forester with the NB Department of Natural Resources, then with his Uncle Wes MacDonald, then with Dead River Ltd. and retired in 1994 when working as secretary of the NB Forest Products Commission. He married, on September 17, 1949, Mary Jane Prescott (b. March 4, 1926) from Middle Sackville, NB, who graduated from Mount Allison Academy in 1944 as a secretary and worked as a bookkeeper with Enterprise Foundry then later as a church secretary for 40 years. As of 2012, they have resided in Fredericton North (Nashwaaksis), NB. for 57 years.

They have three children:

a. Mary Jane (b. April 19, 1952), BN 1976 UNB, who married, on December 10, 1977, John Charles Van Horne (b. February 15, 1950) from Campbellton, NB, a graphic designer and owner of JVH Market Design. As of 2012,and they have lived in Campbellton. They have 3 children:

Jennifer Cathryn (b. April 20, 1982), Mary Julie (b. May 22, 1984) and Helen Alice Jill (b. June 3, 1988)

b. Rev. Dr. James (Jim) Robert (b. May 10, 1957), BA 1985 STU, MDiv. 1988, AST, ordained 1988, D. Min BTS 2000, a United Church minister. On April l8, 1989 he married, Debbie Maureen Breau (b. November 8, 1961), BN 2012 UNB, from Fredericton, NB. As of 2012 they have resided in Moncton for 9 years. They have 2 children:

Caleb Robert Jeffrey (b. January 10, 1991) and Abbey Anne (b. October 1, 1994).

c. Jeffrey (Jeff) ian (b. August 9, 1962), an entrepreneur and founder of The Tomato Stall, Isle of Wight. On October 14,1992, he married Jacqueline (Jacky) Kennedy (b. December 7, 1960), a teacher, from Beckenham, England. As of 2012 they have resided in Shanklin, Isle of Wight, England for 12 years. They have three children:

Heather Joan (b. December 7,1993), Phoebe Rose (b. March 10, 1998) and Ewan James (b. July 30, 2004).

2. Joyce Catherine (b. July 3, 1926 - d. March 1994), a secretary, who studied for two years (1944-46) at Acadia University in the Bachelor of Arts Secretarial Program, and who married, on September 4, 1948, Allan John MacLeod (b. July 12, 1919) MD, a nephrologist at Victoria General Hospital, Halifax, until retirement. They resided in Halifax, NS until Catherine's death and in 2012 Allan continues to live there. They have two children:

a. Allan David (b. April 2, 1952 - d. December 27,1997) who studied at the NS College of Art and Design and worked for the City of Vancouver, BC for many years. He built a beautiful footbridge in Vancouver and remained true to his passion for art and environmental design all his life. b. Janet Lynn (b. December 31,1954) RN, Vancouver, who in 2012 is an endoscopy nurse in Monterey, California.

Information, from family members, confirmed by Cliff's brother, Burns, reveals that, tragically, Clifford died following complications of diabetes and pneumonia at the age of 44. It was in the early days of insulin therapy and he was erroneously treated with too much insulin and fell into a coma from which he did not recover. Ruth died from complications of untreated hyperthyroidism, complicated by postpartum depression, and cancer misdiagnosed as appendicitis. Sadly, much of Clifford's family history died with Clifford because Ian and Catherine were aged 8 and 7 when their father died and due to their mother's illnesses they were cared for by various family members until, and after losing their mother, at the ages of 15 and 16. Family stories of those early days are few, but some friends and relatives from Campbellton, who are now in their 90's still remember the generosity of Cliff and his love of people, a trait which has been passed on to his offspring.