INDIVIDUAL

Wilmot MacDonald

Identifier
NFAI.E.00000242
Preferred Name
Wilmot MacDonald
Library of Congress Naming Authority
MacDonald, Wilmot, 1903- [info:lc/authorities/names/n99025080]
Entity Date
1903 - 1985
Biography/History

Wilmot MacDonald was raised in Glenwood, NB, one of ten children. He grew up in a musical household, with two fine singers for parents. He favored the songs of his father from the lumbercamp tradition, and he learned many songs while working in the woods from the age of fourteen until shortly after he married. He worked as a well-driller, fireman engineer, and ran a boiler at Chatham Air Force Base until he retired around 1970. He was for many years the star of the Miramichi Folksong Festival, opening the festival many times with “The Lumberman’s Alphabet.” He was a favorite singer and storyteller, and good friend, of both Sandy Ives and Louise Manny, the latter of whom founded the Miramichi Folksong Festival.