Identity area
Type of entity
Person
Authorized form of name
MacDonald, Cuthbert Goodridge
Parallel form(s) of name
- Goodridge MacDonald
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Description area
Dates of existence
1897-1967
History
Cuthbert Goodridge MacDonald was born on May 10, 1897 in Fredericton, New Brunswick. He was educated in local Fredericton schools until 1912 before his family moved to Nelson, British Columbia, where he attended Nelson High School. From there he moved to Winnipeg in 1914. In 1915, his parents separated and his mother moved her sons to Ottawa. In Ottawa, MacDonald worked as a civil servant until 1916 when he enlisted in the war. From 1917 to 1918, he was deployed with the Queen’s Field Ambulance, Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF). He was honourably discharged from that position because of bad health. MacDonald also was an editor of The Montreal Herald. He is best known for his poetry - coming from a dynasty of authors including Elizabeth Roberts MacDonald (his mother), Sir Charles G.D. Roberts, Theodore Goodridge Roberts, Bliss Carman, Dorothy Roberts, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and the painter Goodridge Roberts. He died on January 9, 1967.