Printout of scanned photograph of Scarinish Hotel around 1910.
Scarinish Hotel around 1910, from the Sturgeon collection, Coll.
2007.85.4
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Dates: 1900s
2007.85.5
Plan of the S.S. Hebrides (1898-1955) prepared by Ewen McGee.
Plan of the S.S. Hebrides (1898-1955) prepared by Ewen McGee.
2007.85.14
Copy of a postcard of the SS Hebrides.
Postcard of the SS Hebrides at Coll prior to 1913 when she had a conspicuous `bathroom` structure added between the aft boats.
2007.41.8
Hardback book `The Kingdom of MacBrayne` by Nick S. Robins and Donald E. Meek.
The history of MacBrayne`s steamers and ferries in the West Highlands and Hebrides from 1820 to 2005.
2007.33.2
Copied transcription of a letter dated 28/8/1905 to Jessie Coghill of New Zealand from her cousin Jenny in Balemartine.
Copied transcription of a letter dated 28/8/1905 to Jessie Coghill of New Zealand (probably the daughter of Flora MacDonald Kennedy) from her cousin Jenny in Balemartine with family news.
2007.31.1
Copy of a newspaper cutting `Wild story about moose on the loose` by Fred McGuinnes.
Story about Dugald MacKinnon and his trained moose team.
2007.24.1
Copy of a black and white photograph of Donald Lamont (1829-1909) of Cornaigbeg.
Donald Lamont (1829-1909), the son of Peter Lamont and Ann MacLean of Cornaigbeg. Donald accompanied his parents, uncle, and eight siblings to Canada in July 1851 aboard the Conrad. They settled in Kincardine Township of Bruce County, Ontario, where Donald married Sarah (Marion) MacDonald about 1860. Donald and his wife moved to Detroit, Michigan, USA in 1894.
2007.25.7
Hugh MacDonald with his family around 1900
Photograph of Hugh MacDonald with his family around 1900.
Courtesy of Barbara Hall & Grace Boyd
Hugh MacDonald was born in 1850, the son of John MacDonald, a blacksmith at Balinoe, and his second wife Flora Campbell. In 1853 he emigrated to Australia with his parents, brother Hector and half-sister Catherine on board the S.S. ‘Utopia’.
Hugh trained as a school teacher and in 1881 married a widow Mary Grace Hamilton with a young son. The couple had thirteen children, twelve of whom survived to pose for this photograph. Hugh was described as ‘a tall imposing man’ and his wife as ‘a small woman always dressed in black’.
Like many other Scots emigrants of the time, Hugh was a very religious man. He was said to be ‘a stern disciplinarian in the true Scottish teaching tradition’ but with a sense of humour. He died in 1927 of heart failure.
Black and white photograph of the family of Hugh MacDonald (1850-1927) from Balinoe.
The family of Hugh MacDonald (1850-1927) around1900.
L-R: (back row) Mona, Hector, Dulcie, Keith, Flora Dash (niece of Hugh, daughter of Catherine MacDonald and Edward Dash), Hugh, Norman, (seated) Daisy, Kate, Hugh senior with Rex, Ruby, Mary Grace (Hugh’s wife), Mavis, Hugh’s stepson Gib Hamilton, (kneeling in front) Eric.
2007.25.8
Black and white photograph of the daughters of Hugh MacDonald (1850-1927) from Balinoe.
The daughters of Hugh MacDonald (1850-1927) from Balinoe, photographed around 1910.
L-R: Daisy, Mona, Dulcie, Flora Mavis, Ruby, Kate.
2006.164.4
Black & white photograph of the ferryboat approaching the steamer off Scarinish in the late 19th or early 20th centuries.
Courtesy of Mrs Mary Cameron
Before Gott Bay pier was completed in 1913, passengers, livestock and cargo had to be ferried by rowboat between Scarinish harbour and the steamer anchored offshore in deeper water, a somewhat hazardous journey in bad weather.
This photograph of the tender approaching the steamer was taken on a calm day in the late 19th or early 20th centuries. The service was operated for many years by Archibald MacKinnon (Èardsaidh ’ic Eòghainn) without serious accident.
The substantial building in the centre background is the store at Scarinish; the one on the left is the school. Between the two lay the Reading Room, now An Iodhlann, where passengers awaited the arrival of the steamer.