Photocopies of two black & white photographs relating to Tiree MacKinnons who emmigrated to Canada in the 1800s.
Two photocopied photographs relating to the family/descendants of Hugh MacKinnon born 1841 Ruaig who emmigrated to Bruce County, Ontario, Canada. Probably taken in the late 1800`s: (1) unknown group of two men and one woman, and (2) a barn/homestead.
Lists of Tiree mariners from 1862 to 1893
List of names of Tiree mariners, their ages, home address, position, date of voyage and previous ship, between 1862 and 1893.
Balemartine School Diary/Log Book 1885-1900
Hard back bound diary/log book from Balemartine Public School. Entries made by the principal teacher.
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.
Click here to view Tiree extract 2009.38.1
Photograph of Dan Campbell, Gott, ca. 1930
Sepia photograph of Dan Campbell, son of Mary MacKinnon and Donald Campbell, Gott, aged about 40. (copied loan)
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.
Printout of scanned newspaper cutting from pioneer life in Manitoba in the 1880s.
Pioneer stories of Scottish emigrants to Manitoba in the 1880s.
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 the lighthouse at the east end of Pictou Island at the end of the 19th century.
The lighthouse at the east end of Pictou Island at the end of the 19th century, with lightkeeper Andrew MacFarlane (1855-1927), his wife Flora MacPherson (1862-1931) and their children. The fathers of Andrew and Flora both came from Mull.
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.
