Tailor`s iron for smoothing fabric, with wooden handle and heating brick (iron?) that would have first been heated before inserting into the iron. In use around 1900. From the estate of Angus MacLean, The Coolins, Scarinish.
Book extract about Alex and Jessie MacDonald, Scarinish and Canada, 1985
Scanned pages from a book about the history of Craik, Saskatchewan, Canada, where Alex and Jessie MacDonald of Scarinish settled after emmigrating in 1902. Their son Gavin MacDonald, is the donor`s uncle. (digital copy held on flash drive and on office computer)
Audio recording of Gavin MacDonald of Canada speaking about his family in the 1970s, part 1 of 2.
Audio recording of Gavin MacDonald reminiscing his family`s past. His parents were Alex and Jessie MacDonald of Scarinish, who emigrated to Canada in 1902 with their three daughters and one son. They settled in Saskatchewan in 1904.
Click here for transcription 2013.157.3 extract
Audio recording of Gavin MacDonald of Canada speaking about his family in the 1970s, part 2 of 2.
Gavin MacDonald reminisces about his family`s past. His parents were Alex and Jessie MacDonald of Scarinish, who emigrated to Canada in 1902 with their three daughters and one son. They settled in Saskatchewan in 1904.
Genealogy information about Gavin MacDonald, Scarinish (1892-1978), who emigrated to Canada.
Printed information about the family history of Gavin MacDonald (Uncle Gavin), Scarinish, whose family emigrated to Canada in the late 1800s, and about two audio recordings of Gavin speaking about his family history (see 2013.157.2-3).
Click here to view 2013.157.1
Copies of two paintings by Lord Archibald Campbell around 1880
Printed photographs of two watercolour paintings by Lord Archibald Campbell (1846-1913), when he was in Quebec, Canada around 1880. (1) “Louis Jerome the Indian lighting the fire. The Birch canoe making snap jacks of flower and suet”, (2) “Wooden House put up for Princess Louise at Woodman on the Cascopedia seen from the river bed”. Photographed during a visit by Glenda Franklin in 2013. Digital copies stored on An Iodhlann computer.
Photograph of a gathering on Coll before 1913
Sepia postcard photograph of an outdoor gathering of well-dressed adults and children watching a piper, thought to be on the Isle of Coll before 1913. The reverse side of the postcard is stamped Nov. 1913, and was written at the Coll Post Office by Mary Clement to her mother in Port Appin. When the family lived on Coll, Mary`s brother, Jim, had the longest long-jump on the island, which was marked out for many years. He was a member of the Territorial Army and served in WWI. (Original and further information stored in filing cabinet 10 drawer 1)
Photograph of Drovers Cottage, Barrapol, ca 1920
Black & white photograph of Drover`s Cottage, Barrapol, from the road, north of the house, around 1920. It was called Morven House then because the owner, Neil MacKinnon, came from Morven. Note the unsealed road.
Photograph of Drovers Cottage, Barrapol, around 1920
Black & while photograph of Drover`s Cottage, Barrapol, around 1920 when it was called Morven House and owned by the MacKinnon family.
Photograph of Neil MacKinnon, Barrapol, ca. 1920
Sepia portrait photograph of Neil MacKinnon, Morven House (Drover`s Cottage), Barrapol, used for identification purposes at international ports during his service in the Merchant Navy.
