Tag Archives: canada

1999.198.1

Book of poetry `Clarsach na Coille` by Rev A MacLean Sinclair, Nova Scotia, 1818, edited by Hector MacDougall in 1928 (second edition).

Collection of Gaelic poems composed by Doctor MacLean of Mull, John MacLean (Iain Mac Ailean/Am Bard MacGilleathain/Am Bard Thighearna Cholla), Iain Lom, Eachann Bacach and Rev. A. MacLean Sinclair of Nova Scotia, edited and revised by Hector MacDougall. (photocopy stored in filing cabinet 4 drawer 2)

Several names are handwritten on the inside covers: Kate MacDonald, Stornoway; Dolina MacLeod (Stornoway); Ina MacDonald, Stornoway.

1999.127.2

Photocopied newspaper article about two Tiree women who graduated as doctors in Canada.

Article about Mairi and Catriona, the daughters of Duncan MacLean and Alix MacDonald of Machair House, Ruaig, who graduated as doctors in Montreal, Canada in 1950. The family emigrated to Canada after WWII.

2003.86.1

Hardback book `Roughing it in the Bush` by Susanna Moodie.

Account by the author of her first seven years in Canada during which she and her husband failed to make a living from two farms.