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McRae (family)
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Duncan and Edith McRae were Presbyterian/United Church missionaries to Korea. Duncan Murdoch McRae was born in Baddeck, Nova Scotia, in 1868. He worked as a blacksmith, then studied at Dalhousie University and Presbyterian College (Pine Hill), Nova Scotia. He was ordained in 1898, and served as a missionary to Korea until his retirement in 1937. He died in 1949. Born in 1875, Edith F. Sutherland married Duncan Murdoch McRae in 1900. She founded a girl's primary school in Hamheung, Korea, and returned with her husband to Baddeck, Nova Scotia, in 1937. She died in 1956.
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ON00340
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