Order of Events from School Sports Day 18 June 2008
Programme from School Sports Day Wednesday 18 June 2008, 1p.m
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Two merit certificates from the Scotch Education Department awarded to Grace Campbell (age 12) in 1901, and her brother Malcolm Campbell (age 13) in 1900, while attending Cornaigmore Public School. Signed by D MacKinnon, Head Master. The Campbells lived in the pink house, ‘Tullymet’, on Gott Bay.
2008.73.1
Paper titled `Gaelic in the Bruce` by Archie MacKinnon of Guelph.
Paper by Archie MacKinnon of Guelph, then Dean of Education at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia, about the Gaelic heritage in Bruce Counry, Ontario.
2008.68.1
Black and white photograph of Senator Donald Cameron.
Senator Donald Cameron was born in 1901 and spent his early days in Hong Kong, where his father, who came from Mull, worked in the naval dockyards. His mother was Marion MacFadyen from Croish in Caolas. In 1906 the family emigrated to Canada and bought a farm of 320 acres near Innisfail, Alberta. Donald won a scholarship to study Agriculture at the University of Alberta. He went onto become a lecturer in the Department and founded the Banff School of Fine Arts. After years as its Director, he was appointed to the Canadian Senate in 1955.
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School merit certificate dated 1893 for Alexander MacLean who attended Cornaigmore Public School.
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Black and white photograph of the school at Maraekakho in New Zealand.
The station school at Maraekakho in New Zealand.
2008.5.1
Copied title page and prize sticker on Gaelic book won by Janet Brown nee MacArthur in 1950.
Title page and prize sticker on Gaelic book `Am Fear-Ciuil` won by Janet Brown nee MacArthur for proficiency in Gaelic at Cornaigmore Junior Secondary School in 1950.
2008.5.2
Copied school certificate of 1950 for Janet MacArthur.
School certificate for Janet Brown nee MacArthur dated 1960 and signed by headmaster Allan MacDougall.
2007.124.1
Newsletter `An Tirisdeach`, No. 400, 22/9/2007.
Local news and events including new faces at the school, An Talla, the youth club, councillor Gordon Chalmersand the Community Trust.
2007.114.1
Newsletter `An Tirisdeach`, No. 398, 25/8/2007.
Local news and events including the new term at Argyll College, the `retirement` of Alasdair Sinclair from An Iodhlann and news from the RSPB.