Printout of a scanned postcard postmarked 1916 from nurse Elizabeth MacKinnon, granddaughter of Fingon MacKinnon to her aunt Christie in Canada, plus a short biography of Elizabeth`s life.
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2008.50.1
Printout of scanned newspaper cutting from pioneer life in Manitoba in the 1880s.
Pioneer stories of Scottish emigrants to Manitoba in the 1880s.
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Black and white photograph of Archie MacKinnon and his wife Christena Clark. John was the son of Fingon MacKinnon and Christena McLean of Salum, Tiree and was baptized 23 Nov 1832. The whole family (including John’s six younger brothers) left Tiree aboard the Conrad in September 1851. Christena Clark was the daughter of Hugh Clark and Christena McLean of Ruaig, Tiree. She was baptized 10 Jun 1833. The whole family came to Ontario about 1846, settling first in Brock Township. Christena and John were married in Ontario about 1857. They had eight children, but only one married and there were no grandchildren. John died 5 Feb 1919 and Christena died 24 Aug 1918. They are buried in Tiverton Cemetery.
2008.49.1
Copy of sepia photograph of John MacKinnon from Cornaigbeg with his wife Mary and daughter Clara.
John Campbell McKinnon with daughter Clara and wife Mary. John was born in Cornaigbeg, Isle of Tiree in 1844, the son of John McKinnon Sr. and Grace Campbell. John and Grace McKinnon had four other children – Mary (1838), Donald (1839), Catherine (1842), and Hugh (1843). After Grace died in Tiree, John Snr emigrated with his children to Canada in June 1949 aboard the ‘Charlotte’ as assisted passengers. John Jnr settled in Cannington, Ontario, married Mary Grace Williton in 1874, and had ten children. He died in 1925 and is buried in Cannington.
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Black and white photograph of the children of John C. MacKinnon from Cornaigbeg.
The children of John Campbell MacKinnon (1844-1925) from Cornaigbeg and his wife Mary Williton in Cannington, Ontario around 1905. L-R: (back row) Mary, Howard, Maude, (front row) Rhoda, Grace, Clara and Donalda. Their father emigrated to Ontario in June 1849 aboard the ‘Charlotte’ with his father John and siblings after the death of his mother in Tiree.
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2008.48.1
Printout of scanned handwritten draft of poem `Oran Mhanitoba` by John MacLean, the Balephuil bard.
Scan of an incomplete handwritten draft of poem `Manitoba` by John MacLean, the Balephuil bard, composed on New Years Day 1880.
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Translation of `Oran Mhanitoba` by Dr Margaret MacKay of the School of Scottish Studies.
English translation by Dr Margaret MacKay of the School of Scottish Studies of the poem `Oran Mhanitoba` by the Balephuil bard John MacLean and sent to the donor`s aunt Florence Gilbert in 1975, ninety-five years after it was composed.
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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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Black and white photograph of Lachie Dan MacCallum at a funeral in Pictou Island in the early 20th century.
Lachie Dan MacCallum (second right) at the funeral of Annie MacCallum MacFarlane on Pictou Island. The two men assisting with the coffin are Jack and Bill MacDonald.
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Black and white photograph of the Pictou Island mailplane in the mid-19th century.
The Pictou Island mailplane. Since the 1930s mail has been delivered to Pictou Island from mainland Nova Scotia by small airplane. There is no landing strip and the plane lands on the island`s unpaved main road, which in winter is generally covered in snow.
