Black and white photograph of an unknown Clydesdale stallion with John MacLean of the Brae, Cornaigbeg.
Uknown Clydesdale stallion with John MacLean of the Brae, Cornaigbeg.
2007.47.12
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2007.47.13
Black and white photograph of Clydesdale stallion Footprint Footsteps with John MacLean of the Brae, Cornaigbeg.
Clydesdale stallion Footprint Footsteps with John MacLean of the Brae, Cornaigbeg.
2007.38.1
Two photographs of the flags outside An Talla during A` Bhuain.
Two photographs of the flags outside An Talla during A` Bhuain, taken by Dr John Holliday in May 2006.
2007.33.1
Copied photograph of Flora MacDonald Coghill nee Kennedy around 1871 in New Zealand.
Flora MacDonald Coghill née Kennedy, the daughter of Hugh Kennedy and Jessie MacDonald of Sleat, Skye holding her son Robert, born in 1870, in Watahuna, New Zealand. Flora was born in Tiree in 1852 or 1853, married Robert Coghill in 1868 and died in Dunedin in 1923. (Copy of original photo from donor and view of New Zealand in Filing Cabinet 9 drawer 1)
2007.31.2
Copy of a photograph of Dugald MacKinnon of Vaul and Brandon, Manitoba.
Dugald MacKinnon of Vaul and Brandon, Manitoba with the moose team he trained (see 2007.31.1 for story).
2007.31.3
Dugald MacKinnon and his moose team
Photograph of Dugald MacKinnon and his moose team in the early 1900s.
Courtesy of Mr Wallace Robertson
John Mackinnon of Vaul and his wife Mary Ann MacDonald emigrated to Shoal Lake, Manitoba in 1878 with their two children Dugald and Sarah. Dugald, it was said, was akin to a ‘horse whisperer’ as he could tame the most difficult of horses. He was an avid horseman and traded horses across Manitoba and Montana.
He trained two moose calves captured by a farmer, Walter Anderson, and broke them to harness. They were a common sight on the streets of Brandon when Dugald began courting Mary Flora MacLean, and caused a sensation during the summer fair of 1905.
The owner of a visiting carnival offered to buy them but Anderson kept upping the price and the deal fell through. Dugald refused to have any more to do with the animals. He eloped with Mary Flora to Grand Forks, North Dakota where they were married.
Copy of a photograph of Dugald MacKinnon of Vaul and Brandon, Manitoba.
Dugald MacKinnon of Vaul and Brandon, Manitoba with his moose team (see 2007.31.1 for story).
2007.30.1
Tufthill Farm, South Africa
Photograph of Tufthill Farm in Eastern Cape, South Africa.
Courtesy of Mr Stanley Cawthorn
Marion MacNeill was born at Hough in 1841 and married Richard Brown in Glasgow in 1872. Five years later, her brother Donald married Mary Napier. Some time after that, the two couples emigrated to Eastern Cape, South Africa.
They had to contend with all that nature hurled at them, from torrential rain and hail storms to blazing heat and crop pests. Their nearest village and train station was Toise River about twenty-five miles away. Goods were fetched by ox wagon which took a full twelve hours for the round trip.
Births and deaths in the community were celebrated or mourned by all. When a neighbour died, the closest men turned out to lay out the body, put it into the coffin and hold the burial.
Black and white photograph of Tufthuill Farm in Eastern Cape, South Africa.
Marion and Donald MacNeill from Hough at Tufthuill Farm in Eastern Cape, South Africa. Marion married Richard Brown in 1872 and her brother Donald married Mary Napier in 1877. Some after that both couples emigrated to South Africa.
2007.30.2
Black and white photograph of Neil and Mary Brown in South Africa.
L-R: Neil and Mary Brown, the children of Marion MacNeill from Hough; Robert Weir, husband of Marion`s sister Catherine McNeil; William Cawthorn, who later married Mary around 1905.
2007.21.1
Black and white photograph of Cornaig pupils on a school trip to Oban in 1945.
Pupils from Cornaig School on a school trip to Oban in 1945 for the Argyll Inter-School Games.
L-R: Donald MacKay, Skye; Joe MacLeod, Balemartine; Alasdair Straker, Balemartine; Colina MacDonald, Mannal; Neil Johnston, Heanish; Neil Sinclair, Balephuil; Patsy MacPhee; Jimmy Curran, Silversands, Vaul; Ina Brown, Balephuil. The pupils were accompanied by teacher Pat Robertson from Scarinish.
2007.22.1
Copy of a black and white postcard of Neil MacCallum at Balevullin.
Neil MacCallum and his son Alasdair at Balevullin in the 1970s.
