Dan Rory MacDonald (February 2, 1911 – September 20, 1976) was a Canadian fiddler[1] who lived in Cape Breton.
After his discharge in 1946, MacDonald briefly moved to Boston, and then to Hamilton, Ontario, followed by eleven years in Windsor working in the automotive plants.
In 1957, MacDonald left Windsor and moved to the mining town of Elliot Lake.
However, he soon had to give up his job due to failing eyesight, and he moved back to Nova Scotia in 1959.
MacDonald was a fluent speaker of Scottish Gaelic and was recorded playing and discussing his music in his native language, for Scotland's BBC Radio nan Gàidheal in 1972.
In addition to the ones already mentioned, MacDonald wrote Lime Hill, Tom Rae, The Boys of the Lake, The Trip to Windsor, and Reichwall Forest.