Copy of a photograph of Dugald MacKinnon of Vaul and Brandon, Manitoba.
Dugald MacKinnon of Vaul and Brandon, Manitoba with the moose team he trained (see 2007.31.1 for story).
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Dugald MacKinnon and his moose team
Photograph of Dugald MacKinnon and his moose team in the early 1900s.
Courtesy of Mr Wallace Robertson
John Mackinnon of Vaul and his wife Mary Ann MacDonald emigrated to Shoal Lake, Manitoba in 1878 with their two children Dugald and Sarah. Dugald, it was said, was akin to a ‘horse whisperer’ as he could tame the most difficult of horses. He was an avid horseman and traded horses across Manitoba and Montana.
He trained two moose calves captured by a farmer, Walter Anderson, and broke them to harness. They were a common sight on the streets of Brandon when Dugald began courting Mary Flora MacLean, and caused a sensation during the summer fair of 1905.
The owner of a visiting carnival offered to buy them but Anderson kept upping the price and the deal fell through. Dugald refused to have any more to do with the animals. He eloped with Mary Flora to Grand Forks, North Dakota where they were married.
Copy of a photograph of Dugald MacKinnon of Vaul and Brandon, Manitoba.
Dugald MacKinnon of Vaul and Brandon, Manitoba with his moose team (see 2007.31.1 for story).
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Page of information about Dugald MacKinnon and his parents.
Page of information about Dugald MacKinnon and his parents, by Wallace Roberston and Louise MacDougall.
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Extract from Canadian census of 1881 for Little Sakatchewan (sent by Louise MacDougall).
Extract from Canadian census of 1881 for John and Mary Ann MacKinnon (parents of Dugald of the moose team fame) and their neighbours Laughlin and Mary MacDonald (Mary Ann`s parents), all resident in Little Sakatchewan.
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Black and white photograph of Neil and Mary Brown in South Africa.
L-R: Neil and Mary Brown, the children of Marion MacNeill from Hough; Robert Weir, husband of Marion`s sister Catherine McNeil; William Cawthorn, who later married Mary around 1905.
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Tufthill Farm, South Africa
Photograph of Tufthill Farm in Eastern Cape, South Africa.
Courtesy of Mr Stanley Cawthorn
Marion MacNeill was born at Hough in 1841 and married Richard Brown in Glasgow in 1872. Five years later, her brother Donald married Mary Napier. Some time after that, the two couples emigrated to Eastern Cape, South Africa.
They had to contend with all that nature hurled at them, from torrential rain and hail storms to blazing heat and crop pests. Their nearest village and train station was Toise River about twenty-five miles away. Goods were fetched by ox wagon which took a full twelve hours for the round trip.
Births and deaths in the community were celebrated or mourned by all. When a neighbour died, the closest men turned out to lay out the body, put it into the coffin and hold the burial.
Black and white photograph of Tufthuill Farm in Eastern Cape, South Africa.
Marion and Donald MacNeill from Hough at Tufthuill Farm in Eastern Cape, South Africa. Marion married Richard Brown in 1872 and her brother Donald married Mary Napier in 1877. Some after that both couples emigrated to South Africa.
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Copy of a black and white photograph of Donald Lamont (1829-1909) of Cornaigbeg.
Donald Lamont (1829-1909), the son of Peter Lamont and Ann MacLean of Cornaigbeg. Donald accompanied his parents, uncle, and eight siblings to Canada in July 1851 aboard the Conrad. They settled in Kincardine Township of Bruce County, Ontario, where Donald married Sarah (Marion) MacDonald about 1860. Donald and his wife moved to Detroit, Michigan, USA in 1894.
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Photograph of Catherine Dash née MacDonald (1844-1890), from Balinoe, around 1880.
Courtesy of Keith Dash & Doreen Griffin
Catherine MacDonald was born in Balinoe in 1844, the daughter of blacksmith John MacDonald and Flora MacPhail. Her mother died when she was young and her father remarried. In 1853 the family, now with two young sons Hugh and Hector, emigrated to Australia on the S.S. ‘Utopia’. They settled in the goldfields town of Ararat in central Victoria.
In 1866 Catherine married Edward Dash, an English immigrant then working as a clerk in the Victoria Treasury Department. She was twenty-one and he was a forty-seven years old widower with four sons aged fifteen to twenty-two. The couple had another eleven children.
Catherine was described by her children as ‘a gentle, serene woman’ with ‘healing hands’. In 1888 she was diagnosed with pulmonary tuberculosis and she died of this disease in 1890 aged forty-six. This photograph of her was taken around ten years before her death.
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Black and white photograph of Edward Dash around 1886.
Edward Dash, husband of Catherine Macdonald from Balinoe, photographed around 1886.
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Black and white photograph of Hugh MacDonald (1850-1927) around 1888.
Hugh Macdonald, born in 1850, the son of John MacDonald, a blacksmith at Balinoe, and his second wife, Flora Campbell. In 1853 Hugh emigrated to Australia with his parents, brother Hector and stepsister Catherine on board the S.S. Utopia. He trained as a school teacher and in 1881 married a widow Mary Grace Hamilton. The couple had thirteen children. Hugh died in 1927 of heart failure. The photograph was taken around 1888.
