Ranald MacDonald was the first native English-speaker to teach the English language in Japan, including educating Einosuke Moriyama, one of the chief interpreters to handle the negotiations between Commodore Perry and the Tokugawa Shogunate.
Ranald MacDonald
Captain James Glynn's sloop-of-war USS Preble, on which MacDonald returned from Japan.
Ranald MacDonald headstone at cemetery in Ferry County, Washington state
Japanese language monument indicating the birthplace of Ranald MacDonald in Astoria, Oregon
Archibald McDonald was chief trader for the Hudson's Bay Company at Fort Langley, Fort Nisqually and Fort Colvile and one-time deputy governor of the Red River Colony.
Archibald McDonald