Photocopied book extract about the first civic election in Vancouver, Canada.
Information about the first civic election in Vancouver in 1886 won by Tiree man Malcolm Alexander MacLean.
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1998.120.2
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1998.81.4
Photocopied extract from book `The Third Statistical Account of Scotland`, pp 127-131.
Account of Tiree written by Malcolm M. MacLean in 1953. Includes population figures from 1801-1951 censuses and paragraphs about the island`s history, its churches, housing, education and transport.
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1998.108.1
Photocopied letter dated 18/3/1998 from R. K. Campbell about John Campbell, Am Baillidh Mor.
Letter dated 18/3/1998 from R. K. Campbell to Alasdair Sinclair, Brock, about John Campbell, Am Baillidh Mor and ground officer Lachlan MacQuarrie of Hynish.
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1998.77.1
Newspaper article about Dr John Holliday ‘The Happiest Man in the World’.
Article about Dr John Holliday’s new post as Tiree’s GP in The Sunday Post, 1988.
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2003.33.1
On board ‘Jessie Munn’
Transcription of a diary written aboard the emigrant ship ‘Jessie Munn’ in 1861-2.
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Courtesy of Mrs Nan Elliott
This account of a three-month journey to Australia in 1861 was written on board the emigrant ship ‘Jessie Munn’ by an unknown young woman. Her reasons for emigrating are not given but it seems from a letter at the end of the diary that she hoped to better her standard of living.
What is certain is that she had a brave and adventurous spirit to travel 15,000 thousand miles, unaccompanied by friend or family, through some of the roughest seas in the world wholly dependant on the skills of the captain and crew and the sea-worthiness of a small sailing ship.
Indeed, she was fortunate in her choice of the ‘Jessie Munn’. The Australian Board of Health inspector commended the cleanliness of the ship and, unlike many other voyages of the time to the Antipodes, there was no disease or deaths among the passengers.
1998.44.4
Township history for Gott and Earnal researched and written by Hector MacPhail.
Information about prominent families in Gott and Earnal – MacLeans, MacKinnons, MacIntyres and MacDonalds.
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1998.44.5
Township history for Scarinish researched and written by Hector MacPhail.
Information about smacks and schooners owned in Tiree, Scarinish pier, the Scarinish MacLeans, MacDonalds and MacFadyens, and master mariners.
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1998.44.6
Township history for Soay, Brock, Ruaig and Salum researched and written by Hector MacPhail.
Information about Soay and about prominent families in Brock, Ruaig and Salum – the MacKinnons/Sinclairs, Lamonts, MacLeans, MacLeods and MacInneses.
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1998.44.2
Township history for Vaul researched and written by Hector MacPhail.
Information about Dun Mor, the golf course, prominent families in Vaul (the MacKinnons and MacDougalls) and Tiree men who served with the Donaldson Line.
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1998.44.7
Township history for Heanish researched and written by Hector MacPhail.
Information about the MacKinnons in Heanish.
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