Hardback book `Bruce Township: Tales and Trails`.
The history of Bruce Township, Ontario with photographs, maps of concessions, biographies and genealogical information.
1999.239.1
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1999.223.1
Hardback book `Toils, Tears & Triumph` edited by Wanita Hollands Fletcher and Isabelle Munro.
A history of Kincardine Township, Ontario ordered by concessions and lots, with photographs.
Donation label inside reads: ‘Presented in honour and memory of the families of Donald MacDougall and Donald McLean who came from Tiree in the 1800’s to live in Canada, presented by Pamela and Jeanne Bentley descendants of the above’.
2000.97.3
Paperback book `Myth, Migration and the Making of Memory` edited by Marjory Harper and Michael E. Vance.
A collection of essays from a wide range of disciplines pointing to the varied and complex transatlantic relationship that existed between Scotland and Nova Scotia.
2000.50.5
Paperback book `The Mobile Scot` by Jeanette M. Brock.
A study of Scottish emigration and migration 1861-1911based on a thesis which won the Hume Brown prize for Scottish history.
1999.297.8
Paperback book `A Dance called America` by James Hunter.
Account of what happened to the thousands of people who, over the last two hundred years, left the Highlands and Islands to make new lives in the United States and Canada.
2000.225.9
Paperback book `Contempt, Sympathy and Romance` by Krisztina Fenyo.
An examination of the attitude of Lowland Scots to Highland Gaels in the 19th century as expressed in the press.
2001.152.1
Copy extract `Nineteenth Century Tiree Emigrant Communities in Ontario` by Margaret MacKay from `Oral History`, Vol. 9, No. 2, Autumn 1981, pp 49-60.
Account of the emigrant communities from Tiree in Ontario from oral and documentary sources.
2004.23.1
Newspaper article from Canada with reference to Malcolm MacLean, first mayor of Vancouver.
Newspaper article by the grand-daughter of Malcolm MacLean, first mayor of Vancouver.
2004.23.2
Newspaper article from Canada about lawyer Alastair MacDonald from Tiree.
Canadian newspaper obituary for lawyer and Gaelic scholar Alistair MacDonald (1901-1994) from Caoles.
2001.98.1
Photocopied letter dated 11/5/1910 from Darah Lamont of Ruaig about his family tree.
Letter dated 11/5/1910 from Darah (Donald) Lamont of Ruaig to his cousin James Stuart MacFadyen at Blair Atholl Manse about their family, some in Australia and the USA.