Dates: 1920s

2008.66.1

Black and white photograph of the grandchildren of Lachlan and Catherine MacFadyen of Salum.

The grandchildren of Lachlan and Catherine MacFadyen of Salum, photographed in Lindsay, Ontario in 1921. Lachlan and Catherine were married in Tiree on 2nd February 1831 and emigrated to Canada shortly afterwards. They settled in Brock Township, Ontario where they had eight children.

L-R: (standing) Hector Allan (1869-1950), Lachlan Martin (1871-1959), Annie Belle (1873-1948), Catherine Jane (1877-1944), George Charles (1878-1961), Neil Malcolm (1880-1928), Millie Hannah (1882-1952), Linnie Hughena (1884-1930), (front) their mother Melinda Gilson (1846-1831), widow of Lachlan and Catherine’s son Hugh.

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2008.63.1

Biography of Donald Ewen MacDonald (1925-2002) of Heanish by his son Dr John MacDonald.

Biography with photograph of Donald (Jock) Ewen MacDonald (1925-2002) of Heanish by his son Dr John MacDonald. He was a sailor in the Merchant Navy and eventually settled in Australia where he married, raised a family and worked for over twenty years with ICI.

2008.47.1

List of Tiree mariners 1914-1920 extracted from documents at the National Archives at Kew.

Extracts from Crew Lists & Agreements 1914-1920 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.

2008.46.6

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.

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2008.43.9

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.

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2008.38.2

Black and white photograph of John MacNeill with Pat Hobden in South Africa.

John Napier McNeill was born at `Argyle` near Stutterheim in the Eastern Cape of South Africa in 1881. He was the second child of Donald MacNeill from Hough and his wife Mary Napier who were married in Glasgow in 1877. John is holding his niece Vivienne Patricia Hobden (1924-1998), known as Pat, the daughter of his sister Sarah Currie MacNeill.

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2008.34.1

Black and white photograph of Donald and Mary Flora MacKinnon and their family in Tiree in 1925.

The MacKinnon family of Balephuil in 1925, two years before emigrating to New Zealand. L-R: Dolina, Mary, Annie, blacksmith Donald MacKinnon originally from Balinoe, Hugh, Donald`s wife Mary Flora Campbell, Sarah, unknown woman.

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