Black and white photograph of an iceboat crew at Pictou Island in the early 20th century.
An iceboat crew at Pictou Island in the first half of the 20th century. The Northumberland Strait is frozen during the winter and, before the advent of air services to the island in the 1920s or 1930s, iceboat was the only form of transportation to mainland Nova Scotia.
List of Tiree mariners 1913-1914 extracted from documents at the National Archives at Kew.
Extracts from Crew Lists & Agreements 1913-1914 held at the National Archives at Kew giving, under each ship, the names of Tiree sailors, their age and address, rank, the dates of the voyage, and the sailor`s previous ship.
List of Tiree sailors in 1908-1913 extracted from documents at the National Archives at Kew.
Extracts from Crew Lists & Agreements 1908-1913 held at the National Archives at Kew giving, under each ship, the names of Tiree sailors, their age and address, rank, the dates of the voyage, and the sailor`s previous ship.
Black and white photograph of Christena and Flora Brown, the daughters of Neil Brown (1819-1905) from Heylipol.
L-R: Sisters Christena (b. 1876) and Flora (b. 1868), daughters of Neil Brown (1819-1905) from Heylipol and his wife Sarah Henderson. Christena married Frank Fowler in 1906 and settled in Seaforth, Ontario. Flora married Archie McKinnon and lived in Teeswater, Ontario.
Black and white photograph of Sarah Ann Brown, the daughter of Neil Brown (1819-1905) from Heylipol, with her family.
Sarah Ann Brown with her husband Edwin Herbert Muir and children Opal (b. 1895), Neil Hilton (b. 1900), Dora (b. 1907) and Bertha (b. 1909), photographed in Canada. Sarah was the seventh child of Neil Brown (1819-1905), Heylipol, and his wife Sarah Henderson.
Black and white photograph of Sarah Ann Brown, the daughter of Neil Brown (1819-1905) from Heylipol, with her family.
Sarah Ann Brown, the seventh child of Neil Brown (1819-1905) from Heylipol and his wife Sarah Henderson, with her family. L-R: (back) Neil (b.1900), Opal (b. 1895), (front) Bertha (b. 1909), Sarah Ann Muir nee Brown, Sara Elizabeth (b. 1911), Edwin Herbert Muir and Dora (b. 1907).
Black and white photograph of Sarah Brown nee Henderson in Manitoba around 1917.
Sarah Henderson, the wife of Neil Brown who emigrated from Heylipol to Canada around 1847, sitting beside her oldest child Mary MacDonald, (b. 1859). Sarah`s grand-daughter Margaret MacArthur is standing holding her own daughter Allison (b. 1917). The photograph was taken in Dauphin, Manitoba.
Black and white photograph of three grand-daughters of Neil Brown (1819-1905) from Heylipol.
The daughters of Katherine Brown and her husband Charlie Upshall. Katherine was the third child of Neil Brown (1819-1905), who emigrated from Heyipol to Canada around 1847, and his wife Sarah Henderson. L-R: Stella (b. 1903), Eliza Jane known as Jennie (b. 1894) and Catherine known as Cassie.
Sepia photograph of soldier Archibald Colquhoun.
Archibald Colquhoun, son of Neil and grandson of Archibald, the schoolmaster at the Free Church Ladies Society School at Sliabh Dearg in Caoles. Seen here in his soldier`s uniform, Archibald died of wounds received in Farnce in 1918 aged twenty-three.
Copied account by Donald MacLeod of Lewis of Tiree men lost during the world wars.
Account of men from Tiree lost during WWI and WWII.
