Edward James MacDonald
Lieu de naissance : SYDNEY, Nouvelle Ecosse, Canada
Lieu de décès : Westmount, Nouvelle Ecosse, Canada
Date de décès : 31 juillet 2011
Edward James MacDonald, 68, Westmount, passed away Sunday July 31, 2011, at the Cape Breton Regional Hospital.
Born in Sydney, he was the son of the late Allan and Pauline (Palmer) MacDonald and stepson of the late Johnny Peters.
Eddie started his career at CHER radio in the late 1960s, did a short stint at CJCB and in 1973 settled at CBC, where he retired in 1997. He was a versatile musician having played everything from Oom-pah to fiddle music but was best known as a jazz drummer with the Cape Breton Big Band, Bob Nesbitt and the Steinmen, or just whiling away a Saturday afternoon, jamming at Rudy Pace’s. Longtime friend and fellow musician Walter ‘Lefty’ Pretty says, “Eddie was the King Pin. The band could swing because Eddie had a great feel for it and he could really drive a band. You really felt it when he wasn’t there.” Outside of the music scene, Eddie’s friends and family share Lefty’s sentiment.
He is survived by his wife, Georgina (Campbell), daughter, Jean Marie, Westmount; sons, Ed, Waverley and Mike (Lisa), Cole Harbour; sisters, Carmelita, Halifax, Mary Lee, Prime Brook, and Larkell, Toronto; brothers, Mike (Florence), Prime Brook, Johnny, Oshawa, Barry (Seamus), Toronto; grandchildren, Ryan, Bradley, Amber, Lindsay, Jacob, Kyle and Elizabeth, great-grandchildren, Haley and Chelsie.
Visitation will be held at Sydney Memorial Chapel on Tuesday from 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. Funeral Mass will be Wednesday, 10:30 a.m. in Holy Rosary Church with Rev. Doug Murphy officiating.
In lieu of flowers, an in-memoriam donation can be made to the Lung Association of Nova Scotia.
Condolences may be sent to the family at www.sydneymemorialchapel.ca.
