Sepia photograph of descendants of Fingon MacKinnon from Salum and his wife Christena MacLean from Ruaig: Finnie MacKinnon (1868-1929), the son of John MacKinnon and his wife Christena Clark, with his first cousins Retta (Margaret) and Finnie George, two of the children of Archibald MacKinnon and his wife Catherine MacDonald.
Black and white photograph of John Hector MacKinnon with his brother Dan.
Descendants of Fingon MacKinnon and his wife Christina MacLean: John Hector MacKinnon and his brother Donald known as Dan, sons of Hugh MacKinnon and his wife Ann MacDonald. One of Dan’s cousins recalled many decades later in a letter to his daughter, ‘On one of his visits East, your father, a gay Lothario, had a grand winter in Ontario. The girls all fell for him. He was all dressed up in fur-lined coat and fur cap and he was good-looking and he met and married your mother.’
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.
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.
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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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.
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.
Black and white photograph of Lachlan MacCallum (1823-1903) from Cornaigbeg, a native of Tiree and member of the Canadian Senate.
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.
Photograph of a pen and ink sketch of Senator Lachlan MacCallum`s house in Sherbrooke, Ontario.
Pen and ink sketch of Stromness, Senator Lachlan MacCallum`s house in Sherbrooke, Monck County, Ontario, dated 1872. Senator MacCallum was a contractor and shipbuilder who emigrated from Cornaigbeg in 1842.
Black and white photograph of fishing smacks at Pictou Island at the end of the 19th century. People from Tiree who emigrated there at that time, would have fished from these boats.
