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Biography
Private John Samuel MacIsaac was born in Dunmore to Lauchlin MacIsaac and Mary MacDonald. He enlisted in Antigonish on March 16, 1916 with the 193rd Highlanders Regiment. MacIsaac was discharged September 14, 1916 due to being deemed medically unfit.
Following the war, MacIsaac worked for Canadian National Railway for 40 years as a station agent in Port Hood, Iverness County as well as the communities of Monastery, Heatherton and Tracadie in Antigonish County. MacIsaac married Margaret Mary MacDonnell in the 1920s, who died in 1956. He later married Elizabeth Grant. MacIsaac died June 4, 1985. He had two sons and a daughter. MacIsaac is buried in St. Peter’s Church cemetery in Tracadie, Antigonish County.
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