Tag Archives: emigration

2000.30.7

Periodical `The Coll Magazine`, No. 5, 1987.

Articles about WWII, the Coll hotel, emigration and immigrants, bulb growing, Highland dancing, archaeology, travellers to Coll, the White House of Grishipoll, the playgroup and parties.

2000.30.9

Periodical `The Coll Magazine`, No. 8, 1990.

Articles about seers, emigration ship `Brilliant`, fishing competitions, poetess and pauper Janet MacLean, the school, the church, model aeroplanes, ducks, views on Coll and the Community Council among others.

2000.30.11

Periodical `The Coll Magazine`, No. 11, 1993.

Articles about 100 years ago, WWII, the emigration ship `Economy` of 1819, an around-the-world trip, shipwrecks, art rambles in Coll in 1876, a sponsored walk, local wildlife, the Comminity Council, the school and the Coll Show among others.

2000.30.12

Periodical `The Coll Magazine`, No. 13, 1995.

Articles about Skerryvore lighthouse, WWII, pigeons, RSPB, emigration and the `Brilliant`, a school trip, holiday-makers, fishing competitions, the Coll show, Project Trust and bees among others.

1998.276.1

Audio cassette recording of Hector MacPhail talking at the Scarinish Hotel in January 1998.

Hector MacPhail of Ruaig talks at the Scarinish Hotel on 31st January 1998 about emigration to Canada, New Zealand and Patagonia, the Duke of Argyll’s factors, the MacNiven family, cattle droves, smacks and schooners, the shops at Middleton and Hynish, three Tiree men who emigrated to Seattle, ancient graveyards, a school trip to Dundee, Captain Donald MacKinnon of the Taeping, the Downie family, emigration history at Inverary Archives, CalMac boats, the storms in 1953 and 1968, the emigrations of 1855 and 1877. (Continued on AC43)

2001.158.2

Photocopied book extract from `George Douglas, Eighth Duke of Argyll` edited by the Dowager Duchess of Argyll, pp 133-147, 285-6, 321, 508 & 633.

Extracts about the landscape of Tiree, its people and surroundings seas, Skerryvore lighthouse, the potato famine and emigration, some local birds and bird-shooting.