Colour photograph of Glenda McPhadden Franklin at Caoles in 2002.
Glenda McPhadden Franklin, great-great-granddaughter of Alexander MacPhaiden (1790-1878), son of Charles MacPhaiden and his wife Christy MacPhail, at the site of their croft in Caoles in 2002.
Black and white photograph of Neil MacPhaiden of Salum with his seven children.
Neil MacPhaiden (centre front) with his five sons – Malcolm, Donald, Neil, Alexander and Charles – and two daughters – Catherine (left) and Mary Anne (right). The sisters married brothers Thomas and William Purvis.
Neil was born in 1807, the son of Donald MacPhaiden of Salum and his wife Catherine MacNaughton. The family emigrated to Canada in 1821 and settled in Brock Township Ontario. Neil married Mary MacLean who died in 1851. Neil himself died in 1881 and he and his wife are buried in the Old Scotch Cemetery in Brock.
Maraekakaho station
Photograph of Maraekakaho station at Hawke’s Bay in New Zealand.
Courtesy of Mrs Ann MacPhee
Born in Kilmoluaig in 1820, Donald MacLean emigrated from Tiree aged eighteen. After a brief stay in Australia he moved to New Zealand where he became a fluent Maori speaker. The colony’s governor made him Protector of the Maoris around New Plymouth.
In 1844 he successfully defused a confrontation between Maoris and British settlers over disputed land. He travelled hundreds of miles on foot through scrub and along the coast by canoe, negotiating land sales and calming the simmering feuds between Maori tribes.
He bought 30,000 acres of rough land at Hawke’s Bay in 1855 where he established Maraekakaho station. In 1869 he became Minister of Native Affairs and also Minister of Defence. After his death in 1877, an old Maori chief wrote that MacLean had ‘spread the sleeping mat of peace for the tribes of the island.’
Black and white photograph of Mararekakaho station.
Mararekakaho station at Hawke`s Bay, New Zealand, established by Sir Donald MacLean.
Otter at Gott Bay
Photograph of an otter at Gott Bay in April 2007.
Courtesy of Mrs Carole Russell
Paul and Grace Yoxon of the International Otter Survival Fund based in Skye conducted an otter survey of Tiree for a week in August 2003. The coastline was mapped for secondary evidence of otters: spraints (droppings), sprainting points, freshwater pools, lie ups and holts (dens).
Five otters were sighted during the survey and nine major holts found. From this data, the number of otters resident on Tiree was estimated to be between six and eight. From analysis of the spraints, their diet consisted mainly of marine fish supplemented with hare.
While on holiday in April 2007, Carole Russell took this photograph of an otter on Gott Bay. The otter appeared from the direction of Soa, swiftly made his way along the waterline then disappeared inland.
Colour photograph of an otter on Gott Bay.
An otter on Gott Bay, photographed one eveing in April 2007.
Black and white photograph of an RAF Squadron 518 Halifax crew.
The aircrew of RAF Squadron 518 Halifax LL123. Far left: F/Sgt Ozzie Ozaist (Met Air Obs, Polish); centre back: Flt Lt Freddy Green.
Black and white photograph of an RAF Squadron 518 Halifax crew.
The aircrew of RAF Squadron 518 Halifax LL123. Far left: F/Sgt Ozzie Ozaist (Met Air Obs, Polish); fifth from left: Flt Lt Freddy Green.
Black and white photograph of an RAF Squadron 518 Halifax LL510 crew in rubber dinghy after ditching in the Atlantic west of Tiree on 21 November 1944.
Black and white photograph of the rescue of Halifax crew at sea.
The rescue by HMS Flanders of the aircrew of Halifax LL510 from RAF Squadron 518 after ditching in the Atlantic on 21 November 1944.
Black and white photograph of the rescued aircrew of Halifax LL510 at Tiree pier.
The rescued aircrew of Halifax from RAF Squadron 518 arriving at Tiree pier in November 1944.
Black and white photograph of the aircrew of Halifax LL123 from RAF Squadron 518.
The aircrew of Halifax LL123 from RAF Squadron 518, probably on Crossapol beach. 3rd from left: F/Sgt Ozzie Ozaist (Polish Met Air Obs).
