Paperback book `Gaelic Songs in Nova Scotia` by Helen Creighton and Calum MacLeod.
93 Gaelic folksongs from Cape Breton.
De-accessioned 1.3.2026.
2001.18.1
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2000.50.9
Paperback book `The Great Highland Famine` by T. M. Devine.
A detailed account of the clearances of the 19th century, landlordism, crofting life, emigration and migration.
2004.29.1
Hardback book `Oatmeal and the Catechism` by Margaret Bennett.
The folk-culture of the Hebridean settlers, mainly from Lewis and Harris, in the eastern townships of Quebec.
2001.21.1
Folder with index of people for `Bruce Township Tales and Trails` by Betty MacKinnon.
Index of people for book `Bruce Township Tales and Trails`.
1999.239.1
Hardback book `Bruce Township: Tales and Trails`.
The history of Bruce Township, Ontario with photographs, maps of concessions, biographies and genealogical information.
1999.223.1
Hardback book `Toils, Tears & Triumph` edited by Wanita Hollands Fletcher and Isabelle Munro.
A history of Kincardine Township, Ontario ordered by concessions and lots, with photographs.
Donation label inside reads: ‘Presented in honour and memory of the families of Donald MacDougall and Donald McLean who came from Tiree in the 1800’s to live in Canada, presented by Pamela and Jeanne Bentley descendants of the above’.
2000.97.3
Paperback book `Myth, Migration and the Making of Memory` edited by Marjory Harper and Michael E. Vance.
A collection of essays from a wide range of disciplines pointing to the varied and complex transatlantic relationship that existed between Scotland and Nova Scotia.
2000.50.5
Paperback book `The Mobile Scot` by Jeanette M. Brock.
A study of Scottish emigration and migration 1861-1911based on a thesis which won the Hume Brown prize for Scottish history.
2001.152.1
Copy extract `Nineteenth Century Tiree Emigrant Communities in Ontario` by Margaret MacKay from `Oral History`, Vol. 9, No. 2, Autumn 1981, pp 49-60.
Account of the emigrant communities from Tiree in Ontario from oral and documentary sources.
2004.23.1
Newspaper article from Canada with reference to Malcolm MacLean, first mayor of Vancouver.
Newspaper article by the grand-daughter of Malcolm MacLean, first mayor of Vancouver.