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.
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.
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.
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.
