Tag Archives: emigration

1999.180.1

Family history of Allan MacLean from Coll who emigrated to Australia on the `Brilliant`.

Family history of Allan MacLean, a boat builder and carpenter from Coll who emigrated to Australia on the `Brilliant` with his wife Janet MacFarlane and their eight children.

1999.127.2

Photocopied newspaper article about two Tiree women who graduated as doctors in Canada.

Article about Mairi and Catriona, the daughters of Duncan MacLean and Alix MacDonald of Machair House, Ruaig, who graduated as doctors in Montreal, Canada in 1950. The family emigrated to Canada after WWII.

2003.86.1

Hardback book `Roughing it in the Bush` by Susanna Moodie.

Account by the author of her first seven years in Canada during which she and her husband failed to make a living from two farms.