Cohen: The far horizons of Donald S. Macdonald

The ancestors of Donald Macdonald came from Eigg, one of the windswept islands of the Inner Hebrides, off the west coast of Scotland. In 1793, seeking something better, they sailed for Nova Scotia.
They settled on the Northumberland Strait, where they could see the distant shores of both Prince Edward Island and Cape Breton Island. “We’ve been looking at far horizons every since,” he muses in his memoir, Thumper.
There are many Donald Macdonalds, he observed, “but likely