Object Type: photograph

2008.46.17

Colour photograph of the gravestone of Hugh MacLean and his wife Isabella MacCallum.

The gravestone on Pictou Island of Hugh MacLean, a native of Tiree who died in 1867 aged 75 years, and his wife Isabella MacCallum who died in 1876 also aged 75 years.

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2008.46.2

Black and white photograph of Lachlan MacCallum (1823-1903) from Cornaigbeg, a native of Tiree and member of the Canadian Senate.

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Lachlan emigrated to Canada with his mother and brother in 1842 and settled in Ontario where he worked as a contractor and shipbuilder. For many years a Member of Parliament, he was appointed as senator in 1887 and died in office in 1903.

2008.46.5

Black and white photograph of the lighthouse at the east end of Pictou Island at the end of the 19th century.

The lighthouse at the east end of Pictou Island at the end of the 19th century, with lightkeeper Andrew MacFarlane (1855-1927), his wife Flora MacPherson (1862-1931) and their children. The fathers of Andrew and Flora both came from Mull.

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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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2008.46.7

Black and white photograph of a horse-drawn wagon transporting lobster creels at Pictou Island in the early 20th century.

A horse-drawn wagon transporting lobster creels at Pictou Island in the mid-20th century. Lachie Dan MacCallum (1881-1967), great-grandson of the first miller at Cornaig, would have used a similar wagon to haul his gear until he stopped fishing around 1964.

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2008.43.11

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.

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