Black and white photograph of Rev. Allan Munn copied from the book `Voices in the sun` by Elspeth Jack.
Rev Allan Munn was born in Heanish in 1867, the son of Hugh Munn and his wife Ann MacKinnon. Allan left Tiree for Glasgow University and was ordained in 1897 into the United Free Church. His first parish was in Inverness. In 1911 he spent several months at the Scottish Church of Algiers and in 1913 he moved with his wife and seven children to take charge of a church in Germiston in the Transvaal. Eleven years later he moved to the Presbyterian church in Bulawayo, now in Zimbabwe.
Black and white photograph of Senator Donald Cameron.
Senator Donald Cameron was born in 1901 and spent his early days in Hong Kong, where his father, who came from Mull, worked in the naval dockyards. His mother was Marion MacFadyen from Croish in Caolas. In 1906 the family emigrated to Canada and bought a farm of 320 acres near Innisfail, Alberta. Donald won a scholarship to study Agriculture at the University of Alberta. He went onto become a lecturer in the Department and founded the Banff School of Fine Arts. After years as its Director, he was appointed to the Canadian Senate in 1955.
Colour photograph of the descendants of John MacLean and Christina MacDonald from Caoles.
The descendants of John MacLean and his wife Christina MacDonald who emigrated to Canada from Caolas with their seven children in 1878 and settled in the district of Cadurcis in Manitoba.
Colour photograph of the wall at Island House.
The wall at Island House, photographed in 2006 by Claudia Ferguson-Smyth. The wall was one on many built by islanders on `outdoor relief` during the potato famine of the late 1840s.
Colour photograph of the emigrants` stone at Druimbhuidhe.
The Emigrants’ Stone at Druimbhuidhe on the road between Heylipol and Cornaig, photographed by John Holliday in 2006. The day before emigrating, Iain Mòr Mairi Lachainn and Dòmhnall Mòr, both from Cornaig, were walking home after receiving their passage from Island House. One of them said to the other, “Well, we’ll be away from here and we’ll soon be forgotten.” And the other one said, “Let’s do something that they’ll remember us by,” so they rolled the boulder over on its side.
Black and white photograph of Alexander Campbell MacLean of Kilmoluaig.
Alexander Campbell MacLean who was born at Druimbhuidhe in Kilmoluaig on 20th August 1878, the son of Hugh MacLean and his wife Mary MacLean. He had two sisters, Flora and Catherine, and one brother Hugh Alexander. He married Marion Kelly in 1905. The couple emigrated to the States in 1906 but eventually settled in Canada, where Alexander was employed as an assistant manager at the Canadian Bank of Commerce in Toronto.
Colour photo of Sir Harry Gibbs, a descendant of Tiree emigrants.
Former Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia Sir Harry Gibbs (2nd man from right at table) at his cousin`s 80th birthday celebrations. Sir Harry`s great-grandparents were Ann Campbell, who was born in Tiree, and Donald Rankin MacDonald, a doctor and magistrate in New South Wales.
Colour photograph of the daughter-in-law of Lachie MacDonald, Kenovay with her two children.
L-R: Lia Horber, the daughter-in-law of Lachie MacDonald of Kenovay and wife of his son Jorge, with her daughter Isabel (b. 1960) and son Eduardo (b. 1858).
Colour photograph of the descendants of Lachie MacDonald, Kenovay in Patagonia in 2002.
The family of Jorge MacDonald, son of Lachie MacDonald of Kenovay who emigrated to Patagonia in the early 20th century. L-R: Jorge`s son Eduardo, Eduardo`s daughter Lucia, Jorge`s wife Lia Horber, his daughter Isabel`s daughter Virginia, Isabel, Isabel`s sons Marcos and Nicolas, Isabel`s husband Eduardo Pavlovic.
Black and white photograph of lawyer Alasdair MacDonald.
Alasdair MacDonald, from Tiree, was the oldest practicing lawyer in Ottawa when he died in 1994 aged ninety-three, having been a regular attendee at the Elgin Street offices of MacDonald Affleck until just nine months before he passed away. He came to Ottawa from Tiree during the First World War and was a prominent lawyer in the city for sixty-five years. He was a fluent Gaelic speaker who helped found the Chair of Celtic Studies at Ottawa University.
