Wilbert "Willie"McDonald

Wilbert spent his early years in Greenfield from June 12th, 1944, until he attended St. Patrick’s College High School. His parents were Wilfred and Irene (Villeneuve) McDonald. While attending Glengarry District High School in Alexandria Wilbert participated in lacrosse, softball, football, soccer, hockey, and broomball.

In 1962 while playing for Greenfield he was ‘Rookie of the Year’ in senior soccer. Wilbert played on the Greenfield team in the Alexandria Junior Hockey League winning championships from 1962-65. 1965-66 saw him playing with the Lloyd George Hotel team where he was named best defenceman. 1969 saw him named most sportsman-like player in the league. As a member of the Carnation team of 1968 he was named the MVP of the Alexandria Softball League.

Wilbert was named the MVP at the Shearwater Invitational Broomball Tournament held in Shearwater N.S. playing on the A&F Transport team from Ottawa in 1976. Also in 1980 he played as a member of the Cornwall Merchants who became silver medalists at the Silver Broom Invitational Broomball tournament held in Saskatchewan with Wilbert being given the MVP award. Again in 1982 the host Cornwall JOC Pop Shoppe team were gold medalists in the Canadian National Broomball Championships. Continuing to play broomball as a member of the Wills Transfer Limited team he was selected as best defenceman in the 1982-83 season.

On August 28, 1988 Wilbert married Carol Rainey from Grenville Quebec and they reside at St. Andrew’s West. This is the sporting career of Wilbert McDonald!