John Ball and Ranald McDonald

[Jeffrey Kopp]

A page, apparently in Japanese, which includes a photo of Ranald
MackDonald [sic] taken in 1891:

http://www.okanogan-net.com/photograph/first.html

On Sun, 15 Apr 2001 02:50:59 -0400, "Dave Robertson"
<TuktiWawa at NETSCAPE.NET> wrote:

>Incidentally,
>
>At least one of our list members is a relative of Ranald McDonald.
>
>There is a semi-serious conjecture that he may have been the first speaker of Chinuk-Wawa in Japan.  (Sorry, Yann!)
>
>Also, many highway maps of Washington State sold at gas stations show the location of Ranald's grave.  That area of North-Central Washington is sparsely populated, so the cartographers added the historical site that most interested them, I guess.
>
>Dave