OBIT # 5510 - EASTERN CHRONICLE - 19 FEBRUARY 1942 (note date) ARTHUR CAMERON MacDONALD, D.S.O., M.E.I.C., died at his home in London, England, on August 4th, 1940. He was born at Pictou, N.S., on October 25th, 1863. His first appointment was that of a resident engineer on the East Georgia and Florida Railway and later in the same year -1886- he was engaged on the new Croton aqueduct for the water supply of New York. In 1887, he went to Panama for the American Contracting and Dredging Company, remaining until the following year, and for some eight months, serving as acting chief engineer on this company's contracts in connection with De Lesseps' canal works. His next appointment was in Chile, where he spent the three years, 1889-92 as chief engineer on the location and construction of the Pahimilla-Alconia Railway and the Tuena Piden Railway. This was followed by three years as general manager of the San Agustin Mining Company, at Iquique, a post which he relinquished to become principal assistant engineer on the Huara Direct Nitrate Railway. From 1896 to 1900, he was chief engineer of the Agua Santa Railway and Nitrate Company Ltd. and from 1900-1905, of Borax Consolidated, Limited, for whom he explored the borax deposits in the Andes, constructed calciming works on the Bolivian border, and made surveys for two mountain railways. In 1905, Mr. MacDonald founded the firm of MacDonald, Gibbs and Company, London, England, and since that date had been continuously engaged in road, railway and other large constructional works; except for the period of the Great War, when he commanded the 11th Labour Battalion, Royal Engineers, and later became chief engineer of the Albanian Relief Expedition to evacuate the Serbians through Albania, for which service he received the D.S.O. in 1916, and the White Eagle of Serbia. Later he was appointed A.D.F.W.(Aviation), after having been on the H.Q. in France for some months as a consultant. Among the undertakings carried out under his supervision were the Mejillones and Collahuast branches of the Antofgasta Railway, involving work at more than 4,800 m. above sea level; the San Pedro and Cerillos pipe line; many surveys in South America, and for the Halifax and Northeastern Railway in Nova Scotia, and, more recently, the survey for the San Paulo Railway in 1926-27, the construction of the San Paulo?Parana Railway, in 1928-31, the 90 miles road from Buines to Concepcion in Chile, and the Mahomet Aly barrage in Egypt, completed about a year ago. Colonel MacDonald was elected a Member of the Institute in 1898. He was also a member of the Institution of Civil Engineers as well as a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society.