Hi I don't know whether any of you would be interested, but here is a little story I found in my research. This was submitted by a descendant of the McDonalds of Caledon West, now Peel County, Ontario. Material found in the William Perkins Bull Family Histories Collection Peel County Archives, Brampton, Ont. 95.0032, Reel No. 45 Notes from Walker Wilkinson, Brampton [my comments are in square brackets] My mother's family (Walker) left Scotland in May and landed in Caledon in August, 1833. My grandfather [this would have been George Walker, John Brown's brother-in-law] came a year ahead. The Gibson and Walker families came together [David Gibson came with his sister Margaret and "the Patriarch's" party – perhaps this is an error or more Gibsons came with the Walkers]. When Archibald Clarke and his wife [a McDonald] came to Canada and were on their way to their new home by wagon from Toronto, someone of their party [this would have been the Patriarch's party] went ahead to find out where they were. When my mother's people were going up into Caledon to take up land, becoming uncertain of their way, one of the party was sent ahead to try to find out where they were. He came across Archibald Clarke and his wife who was Margaret [McDonald], and he came back and said to my grandmother, Agnes Brown [sister of John Brown] "We're among kent folk noo," meaning among friends. William MacDonald was a blacksmith in Belfountain. His daughters were [Jane] Mrs. Oliver, [Janet] Mrs. Longstreet and [Agnes] Mrs. Rams[a]y. His wife was Agnes Walker [I believe her to be a daughter of George Walker]. The Walkers got their name in an interesting way. In the old days, the Walkers were Macdonalds. At the time of the Campbell Macdonald battle at Glencoe, the Glencoe "Massacre," one of these Macdonalds happened to be a weaver. In the weavers work they had to walk back and forth at the machines, and became nicknamed "Will, the Walker." He had a friend in the house of one of the Campbells and when she heard about the plans for the Glencoe affair, she warned "Will, the Walker," and thus enabled him to make his escape from the country. He dropped the name of "Macdonald" and took that of "Walker," and that is how the family got its name.