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Joseph Donaldson (1851-1919)
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c.1919 (Creation)
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11.5" x 14.5" (b/w) photograph
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Portrait of Joseph Donaldson - the late president of Jos. Donaldson's Ltd. (established 1890)
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Joseph Donaldson was born in Zorah Township, Ontario on 7 June 1851 to William and Mary Donaldson. He quit school at the age of 16 to help on the family farm until he left home to learn the butcher’s trade. In 1880 he went to Saskatchewan and took up a homestead near Broadview. He moved to Brandon in 1890 and established a retail meat market Jos. Donaldson Ltd. at 813 Rosser Avenue.
On 27 October 1880, he married Elizabeth E. Wallis at Woodstock, Ontario. The couple had six children: Florence L. Donaldson (1889-1908), Mary B. Burgess (wife of H. L. Stevenson), William W. Donaldson, Joseph Cameron Donaldson, Edward V. Donaldson, and John Milton Donaldson. The family resided at 259 Sixth Street, Brandon. Joseph Donaldson was a member of the Ancient Order of United Workmen, the Brandon Board of Trade, the Anglican Church, and a director of the Brandon Winter Fair. He died at Brandon on 30 January 1919 and is buried in the Brandon Cemetery.