Newspaper obituary from 1909 for Ann MacKinnon, Canada, formerly Tiree
Photocopy of an obituary from a Canadian newspaper dated June 1909, for Mrs Ann MacKinnon (formerly Clark, nee MacDonald) who was born on Tiree in about 1836. Ann emmigrated to Brock township, Ontario, with her father Donald MacDonald and seven siblings shortly after her mother Eliza Lamont died. Ann moved to Bruce County with her first husband, Malcolm Clark, with whom she had two children, then to Brandon Hills with her second husband Hugh MacKinnon (also originally from Tiree), with whom she had eight children.
Report on the Truck System in Scotland by Alexander Redgrave, HM Chief Inspector of Factories, in 1887. Presented to both Houses of Parliament. Includes a section about the Glassary Factory on Tiree.
Copy of letter dated 8/6/1883 from Hugh MacLean of Kilmoluaig
Letter dated June 1883 from Hugh MacLean of Kilmoluaig to his cousin with mainly family news but also mentions the scarcities of the previous year and £100 of loans for `needful tenants` to buy seed potatoes and corn in the spring.
Black and white photograph of Archie MacKinnon and his wife Christena Clark. John was the son of Fingon MacKinnon and Christena McLean of Salum, Tiree and was baptized 23 Nov 1832. The whole family (including John’s six younger brothers) left Tiree aboard the Conrad in September 1851. Christena Clark was the daughter of Hugh Clark and Christena McLean of Ruaig, Tiree. She was baptized 10 Jun 1833. The whole family came to Ontario about 1846, settling first in Brock Township. Christena and John were married in Ontario about 1857. They had eight children, but only one married and there were no grandchildren. John died 5 Feb 1919 and Christena died 24 Aug 1918. They are buried in Tiverton Cemetery.
Black and white photograph of Lachlan MacCallum (1823-1903) from Cornaigbeg.
Lachlan MacCallum was born in Cornaigbeg in 1823. He emigrated to Canada with his mother and brother in 1842 and settled in Ontario where he worked as a contractor and shipbuilder. For many years a Member of Parliament, he was appointed as senator in 1887 and died in office in 1903. In 1854 he married Priscilla Thewlis, an American of English descent, and the 1881 cenus for Sherbrooke, Monck County in Ontario records six children to the marriage. He was a hero at the defense of Fort Erie during the Fenian Raids of 1866.
Black and white photograph of Lachlan MacCallum (1823-1903) from Cornaigbeg, a native of Tiree and member of the Canadian Senate.
Lachlan emigrated to Canada with his mother and brother in 1842 and settled in Ontario where he worked as a contractor and shipbuilder. For many years a Member of Parliament, he was appointed as senator in 1887 and died in office in 1903.
