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His parents, Ferne (née Mains) and Percy Lloyd Macdonald (1916–1990), were both Anglophone teachers. They worked at CFB Valcartier, a military base north of Quebec City. As a child, his father would not let him learn French as he wanted the family to speak English. Macdonald's father died in 1990 of heart disease.
May 31, 2022 · Sadly, the three brothers lost dad Percy to heart disease in 1990, and Macdonald, who kept his cancer a secret from friends and fans for a decade, took after his father in one compelling way.
I descend from the Macdonalds of Glencoe, and several of my other branches were supporters of Clan Macdonald. I’ve heard Norm say his father was Scottish, and his mother is Irish. Probably means he could have traced his ancestry further than most. That 1922 fire was catastrophic for anyone of Irish ancestry.
Oct 29, 1990 · Percival Lloyd “Percy” Macdonald. Birth. 18 Apr 1916. South Stormont, Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry United Counties, Ontario, Canada. Death. 29 Oct 1990 (aged 74) Nepean, Ottawa Municipality, Ontario, Canada. Burial. Paul's Hill Cemetery.
Neil Macdonald (born 1957) is a Canadian journalist with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, currently senior correspondent for CBC News The National . Early life and family. Macdonald was born and raised in Quebec City. His father was Percy Macdonald, who served with the Canadian Army during World War II and helped liberate the Netherlands.
Norm MacDonald. Actor: Dirty Work. Macdonald was born Norman Gene Macdonald in Quebec City, Quebec. He began his career in stand-up comedy. Macdonald's first job was writing for The Dennis Miller Show (1992) and then Roseanne (1988). While writing for Roseanne (1988), he was noticed by Lorne Michaels, who liked Norm's stand up, and gave him his ...
When Percy MacDonald was born on 9 January 1900, in Morris, Manitoba, Canada, his father, James MacDonald, was 27 and his mother, Edith Leonard, was 18. He married Dora Grace Chapman on 5 April 1919, in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. They were the parents of at least 3 sons.
