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2025.16.1

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A tintype photo taken c. 1863 in Ontario, Canada, probably taken on the wedding day of Hector and Christena

Back L-R: Christena McMillan 1838-1923; Bully Hector McLean 1833-1909

Front L-R: Agnes Ann McMillan 1843-1909 holding baby Neil McLean 1861-1949; Alexander McLean (Short Sandy) 1829 (Balephuil) -1907.

Two brothers married two sisters.

 

Hector born 1832 Balinoe & Alexander born 1827 Balinoe, and all six of their siblings sailed on the Conrad in 1850 from Greenock to Montreal with their parents Neil Maclean of Balinoe & Marion Cameron of Hianish.

Christina born 1842 Balefuil and Ann born 1840 Balefuil, and all 5 of their siblings sailed on the Conrad in 1851 with their parents Colin McMillan & Catherine Maclean of Balefuil. Colin was born at Kilkennethmore in 1807, by 1809 he and his parents & siblings had settled at Balefuil.

Colin’s wife Catherine Maclean was a daughter of Donald Maclean “Domhnall Cubhair” (the Cooper) of Balefuil. Donald’s brother was John Maclean “Bard Thighearna Chola” (Laird of Coll’s Poet) ” Am Bard Gilleain” who emigrated in 1819 to Pictou County in Nova Scotia, and settled at Glenbard, Antigonish County, NS.

Christina and Hector married in 1863, on 10 Feb, in Grey County Ontario.

Ann and Alexander are buried in Old Pioneer Cemetery in Priceville, Ontario.

Christina and Hector are buried at McNeill Cemetery in Priceville, Ontario.

Thanks to Flo Straker for genealogical research

 

2022.29.2

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Blue and gold, metal Ontario Mod badge mounted on a wooden plaque with plate inscribed “1979, The Walter McFadyen Memorial Trophy, Solo Singing, Song Composed in Canada”. From the belongings of the MacDonald/MacCorquodale/MacLean family of Kenovay.

2021.53.76

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Digitised copy of Letter from Malcolm McLaurine, chamberlain of Tiree, to James Ferrier, 22 Mar 1803. James Ferrier was one of the Principal Clerks of Session. Also included is an incomplete copy of this letter.

In this letter McLaurine discusses cutting down the farms of Scarinish, Hianish [Heanish] and Balemartine and opposition to the plans to establish four mail lands from tenants of Barapoll [Barrapol] and Kenovar. McLaurine names Archibald McLean as being the most active protester and mentions that the inhabitants do not wish to ‘adopt any improvements inconsistent with their old customs & habits’ and that ‘their old hereditary customs and practices must be sacrificed’. McLaurine ascribes the inhabitants aversion to crofts and fishing as being due to ‘the idleness and laziness of their habits’. McLaurine also mentions the removal of ‘whisky delinquents’ to ‘upper Canada’.

Click to read a transcript of this item.

Click to view a record for this item on Inveraray’s online catalogue.

From the archives of the Dukes of Argyll at Inveraray Castle, made available through the Written in the Landscape project.

2021.17.1

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Colour photograph of Priceville, Ontario, Canada in the snow in around 2010. The donor of the photograph lives in the farming community that her Tiree ancestors settled in in 1851, after emigrating to Canada on board the ‘SS Conrad’. Her Tiree ancestors include McMillans, McLeans, McDonalds, McPhaydens and MacKinnons. The photograph is accompanied by genealogical information about the donor’s ancestry.

 

 

2021.16.1

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Large hard-back book ‘Priceville and its Roots (Routes)’ compiled by the The Priceville (and Area) Historical Society, 1992, and edited by Katie Harrison, a descendant of Tiree people who emigrated there in 1851. A compilation of photographs, memories and articles about Priceville, Ontario, Canada, its people and its mail routes, including the settlements of Bunessan, The Glen, Scotchtown, Glenelg Centre, Pomona, Topcliff, Old Durham Road and Six Corners. Many Scots emmigrated to the area including Tiree McMillans, McLeans, McDonalds, McPhaydens and MacKinnons.

2021.3.4

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Music CD ‘River to Sea – from Tlell to Tiree’ by Sheila Cameron, Canada, ca 2018. Collection of songs mostly associated with the Tlell River on the island of Haida Gwaii, NW Canada, but moving on the shores of Tiree where the track ‘All you need is the sea’ was written.

2020.52.3

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Scanned copy of a certificate of qualification belonging to Niall Colin Brown Campbell, Scarinish (b.1933), dated 1964, issued by the Canadian Department of Transport enabling him to pilot ships on the Great Lakes of Ontario and Erie in Canada. Before moving to Glasgow and then Canada, Niall lived at Deobedal, Scarinish.

 

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