Colour photograph of fishing shanties on Pictou Island, Nova Scotia.
Shanties on Pictou Island, Nova Scotia occupied by during the lobster season (May-June) by fishermen from mainland Nova Scotia and Prince Edward island. The MacCallum brothers kept their lobster boats in this cove which is protected by a breakwater (out of view to the left). A lobster canning factory and a life-saving station maintained by the Canadian Government were located along this stretch of beach in the late 1880s.
Colour photograph of Daniel MacCallum`s house on Pictou Island, Nova Scotia.
Aerial view of the house of Daniel MacCallum (1835-1897) on Pictou Island, Nova Scotia. Daniel`s parents Lauchlin MacCallum (1793-1877) and Mary MacLean (1793-1876) were natives of Tiree. Lauchlin`s father John was the first miller at Cornaig. The house was probably built in the late 1870s; the barn is newly constructed.
Colour photograph of Daniel MacCallum`s house on Pictou Island, Nova Scotia.
The house of Daniel MacCallum (1835-1897) on Pictou Island, Nova Scotia (see photo M167). Daniel`s three sons Duncan, Hector and Lauchlin Daniel were lobster fishermen (see photo A134). Note the boat in the foreground used as a flower bed.
Colour photograph of the gravestone of Hugh MacLean and his wife Isabella MacCallum.
The gravestone on Pictou Island of Hugh MacLean, a native of Tiree who died in 1867 aged 75 years, and his wife Isabella MacCallum who died in 1876 also aged 75 years.
Black and white photograph of Lachlan MacCallum (1823-1903) from Cornaigbeg.
Lachlan MacCallum was born in Cornaigbeg in 1823. He 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. In 1854 he married Priscilla Thewlis, an American of English descent, and the 1881 cenus for Sherbrooke, Monck County in Ontario records six children to the marriage. He was a hero at the defense of Fort Erie during the Fenian Raids of 1866.
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.
Black and white photograph of the lighthouse at the east end of Pictou Island at the end of the 19th century.
The lighthouse at the east end of Pictou Island at the end of the 19th century, with lightkeeper Andrew MacFarlane (1855-1927), his wife Flora MacPherson (1862-1931) and their children. The fathers of Andrew and Flora both came from Mull.
Black and white photograph of an iceboat crew at Pictou Island in the early 20th century.
An iceboat crew at Pictou Island in the first half of the 20th century. The Northumberland Strait is frozen during the winter and, before the advent of air services to the island in the 1920s or 1930s, iceboat was the only form of transportation to mainland Nova Scotia.
