Paperback book `The best man who ever served the crown?` by Ray Fargher.
The life of Sir Donald MacLean of Kilmoluaig and New Zealand.
2007.129.1
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2007.128.1
John Brown’s bagpipes
Photograph of John Brown’s bagpipes in the College of Piping on Prince Edward Island, Canada.
Courtesy of Mr George Brown
John Brown emigrated to Canada and settled in Ottawa where he worked as a receptionist on Parliament Hill. He owned a set of bagpipes that were reputed to have been played at the battle of Culloden in 1746, on which he would often play ‘Health to the MacDonalds’ Return’. Back in Tiree, there was a tradition in his family that the Browns had been given their piping skills by the fairies.
He played the bagpipes for the visit to Ottawa of the Prince of Wales, later King Edward VII, and the prince shook his hand. His grandson remembers ‘he was so pleased that forever after he would only extend his left hand to lesser folk.’
John Brown died in 1889 aged ninety. The bagpipes are now on display at the College of Piping, Summerside, Prince Edward Island.
2007.126.4
Black and white photograph of the MacPhadden homestead in Kenyon Township, Ontario in 1904.
The MacPhadden homestead in Kenyon Township, Glengarry County, Ontario in 1904. The land was first settled by Alexander MacPhadden, who was baptised in 1790, the son of Charles MacPhaiden of Caoles and his wife Christy MacPhail. According to oral history Alexander emigrated to Canada around 1806 in the company of MacIsaacs and MacDonalds, at first living at Glen Donald in southern Ontario. In 1809 he leased Lots 11 and 12 of Concession 14 in Kenyon Township, which he purchased in 1852. This photo pictures his son John with his family in front of their fine brick house built around 1895. The family ran a.mixed dairy farm and maple syrup orchard.
2007.126.5
John MacPhaden at the cheese factory in Kenyon Township in 1900
Photograph of John MacPhaden at the cheese factory in Kenyon Township, Glengarry, Ontario in 1900.
Courtesy of Mrs Glenda Franklin
Alexander MacPhaden was born in Caoles in 1790, the son of Charles MacPhaden of Croish and his wife Christy MacPhail. Alexander emigrated to Ontario, Canada at the age of sixteen. He settled in Indian Lands, Kenyon Township in Glengarry County where he established a mixed dairy farm.
Alexander married Ann (or Jannet) MacIsaac MacDonald and the couple had at least eight children. Their son John (1839-1920) inherited the farm. Every day they took their milk to the cheese factory in Kenyon Township, pictured here in 1900.
John is the white-haired man in the back row. His two youngest sons are in the middle of the front row: the smallest boy is Charles and left of him is his brother John. John senior was a friend of the Indians who taught him to make medicine using plants and bark. He was also a soothsayer and in great demand for house parties.
Black and white photograph of John MacPhadden with his family in Kenyon Township, Ontario in 1904.
The McPhadden homestead in Kenyon Township, Glengarry County, Ontario in 1904.
L-R: (seated) John McPhadden (1839-1920), his wife Mary Morrison (1852-1932) with their youngest son Charles, (standing) their daughter Isabella McPhadden McLaurin holding her son Houston; cousin Margaret Morrison, Isabella’s sister Hattie and brothers John and Alexander.
2007.126.7
Colour photograph of Glenda McPhadden Franklin at Caoles in 2002.
Glenda McPhadden Franklin, great-great-granddaughter of Alexander MacPhaiden (1790-1878), son of Charles MacPhaiden and his wife Christy MacPhail, at the site of their croft in Caoles in 2002.
2007.126.8
Photocopied letter from the Kirk Session of Tiree dated 13th June 1821.
Letter dated 13th June 1821, signed by the minister Neil MacLean, the Session Clerk Alexander Mathewson and three others, attesting to the `unimpeached moral character` of Donald MacPhaiden, his wife Catherine MacNaughton and their family and recommending them to `any Christian Society or Congregation` in North America.
2007.126.9
Scanned image of a newspaper cutting about a forgotten pioneers` cemetery near Regina, Canada.
Article in a Canadian newspaper about an abandoned pioneer settlement which contained emigrants from Tiree. (See also 2007.90.1)
2007.126.6
Sepia photograph of John MacPhadden in Ontario in 1900.
John McPhadden was born in 1839 the son of Alexander MacPhadden, who emigrated to Canada in 1806, and the grandson of Charles MacPhaiden of Caoles and his wife Christy MacPhail. John, the white haired man third from the right in the back row, was photographed at the cheese factory in Kenyon Township, Glengarry County, Ontario in 1900. His two youngest sons are in the middle of the front row: smallest boy with white hat is Charles, his brother John is to the left.
2007.126.1
Black and white photograph of Rev. Alexander MacFadyen of Vaul.
Alexander MacFadyen was born on 14th February 1831 in Vaul, the son of John MacFadyen and his wife Flora MacFadyen. Alexander, deeply religious from an early age, married Mary MacLean in Broadford, Skye, in 1862, by which time he had become a Baptist missionary. Their first son, Daniel, was born in Kilchoman, Islay, in 1866, after which the young couple emigrated to Canada so that Alexander could take his mission to a new world.
2007.126.3
Black and white photograph of Neil MacPhaiden of Salum with his seven children.
Neil MacPhaiden (centre front) with his five sons – Malcolm, Donald, Neil, Alexander and Charles – and two daughters – Catherine (left) and Mary Anne (right). The sisters married brothers Thomas and William Purvis.
Neil was born in 1807, the son of Donald MacPhaiden of Salum and his wife Catherine MacNaughton. The family emigrated to Canada in 1821 and settled in Brock Township Ontario. Neil married Mary MacLean who died in 1851. Neil himself died in 1881 and he and his wife are buried in the Old Scotch Cemetery in Brock.
