Newspaper article from Canada about lawyer Alastair MacDonald from Tiree.
Canadian newspaper obituary for lawyer and Gaelic scholar Alistair MacDonald (1901-1994) from Caoles.
2004.23.2
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2001.131.1
Letter from Ronald MacLean, former Vancouver correspondent of the Oban Times.
Letter from Ronald MacLean, former Vancouver correspondent of the Oban Times, probably written in the 1950s, about the first mayor of Vancouver, Malcolm MacLean. (The letter was found in papers belonging to the donor`s cousin)
2004.13.3
Hardback book `Adventurers & Exiles` by Marjory Harper.
Comprehensive account of the `Great Exodus` in the century before WWI when two million men women and children left Scotland for a new life overseas.
2001.37.1
Family history of the MacDonald family form Moore township in Ontario.
Family history of a MacDonald family from Moore Township, Ontario, who were descended from Donald MacDonald born 1795 in Caoles and his wife Marion MacDougall born 1791 in Vaul. Their son Neil born in 1831 emigrated to Canada in the 1860s.
2000.216.1
Folder with census and other information from Ontario, Canada.
Photocopied 1851 census return for part of Brock Township, Ontario, giving name, occupation, country of birth, religion, type of dwelling, age and marital status; selection of photocopied pages from `Tiverton Centennial History 1879-1979`.
1998.139.4
The MacLean family in 1901
Photograph of the MacLean family in 1901.
Courtesy of Mr Angus MacLean
Hector MacLean, a crofter in Balephuil, married Mary MacDonald of Caoles in 1828. The couple had nine children, two which are in this photograph of 1901: Hugh (Eòghann Mòr) seated on the left and Allan (Ailean Bàn) on the right. Allan owned and skippered the schooner ‘Cirrus of Rosa’.
In 1877 Mary, by then a widow, emigrated to Shoal Lake, Manitoba with four of her sons and two daughters. Only Hugh remained on Tiree where he settled on the croft at Caoles tenanted by his maternal uncle. Two of Hugh’s three sons, Donald and Hector, are also in the photograph.
Hector was a minister who spent most of his life on Skye; his four sons all became doctors. Donald had three sons and his descendants still live on Tiree today.
Black and white photograph of the MacLeans of Caoles in 1906.
The MacLean family of Caoles in 1906. L-R: Hugh MacLean (Eoghann Mor) of Caoles; his sons, Donald and Hector; his brother Captain Allan MacLean (Ailean Ban) who emigrated to Manitoba, Canada in 1877. Donald was the father of Hugh, Willie and Angus; Hector was a minister of the church.
1998.132.5
Black and white photograph of Johnny MacKinnon, brother of the Rev. Hector MacKinnon.
Johnny MacKinnon, Lodge Farm, Kirkapol, brother of the Rev. Hector MacKinnon. He emigrated to Manitoba with his brother Charlie who died in Canada from flu.
(Original in 2026.3)
2003.155.4
Black and white photograph of Chief Steward John Maclean with stokers and greasers.
Chief Steward John MacLean of Balevullin with the ship`s stokers and greasers, possibly photographed in Canada. (Original in Filing Cabinet 8 drawer 2)
2003.152.9
Black and white photograph of unknown ship`s crew.
Unknown ship`s crew photographed in Montreal, Canada. (Original postcard in Filing Cabinet 8 drawer 2)
1997.243.2
Audio cassette recording of Hector MacPhail talking at Vaul Golf Club on 31/1/1997
Hector MacPhail talking at Vaul Golf Club on 31st January 1997 about Clydesdale horses on Tiree, Tom Barr, the Scottish Horse Regiment, his great-uncle Archie MacDougall, Tiree blacksmiths, shoes and clothes made on Tiree, weaving and carpentry, graveyards and tacksmen, Sir Donald MacLean, Tiree place-names, UK boxing championship Donald Lamont, shebeens and whisky distilling, peat and seaweed, emigration, fishing and Hynish pier, local boat-building.