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.
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.
Colour photograph of Barney`s River taken Dr Margaret MacKay in 1978.
Barney`s River in Pictou County, Nova Scotia photographed Dr Margaret MacKay in 1978. John MacLean, Bard Thighearna Cholla bought a plot of woodland there after emigrating from Caoles in 1819.
Colour photograph of MacIntyre`s Corner in Canada.
MacIntyre`s Corner in Canada where emigrants from Tiree settled in the 19th century.
Black and white photograph of John Hector MacKinnon with his brother Dan.
Descendants of Fingon MacKinnon and his wife Christina MacLean: John Hector MacKinnon and his brother Donald known as Dan, sons of Hugh MacKinnon and his wife Ann MacDonald. One of Dan’s cousins recalled many decades later in a letter to his daughter, ‘On one of his visits East, your father, a gay Lothario, had a grand winter in Ontario. The girls all fell for him. He was all dressed up in fur-lined coat and fur cap and he was good-looking and he met and married your mother.’
