Tag Archives: emigration

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2008.58.1

Photocopied letter dated 18/4/2003 from Isabel MacDonald Pavlovic, the granddaughter of Lachie MacDonald from Kenovay.

Letter dated 18/4/2003 from Isabel MacDonald Pavlovic, the granddaughter of Lachie MacDonald from Kenovay who emigrated to Patagonia at the beginning of the 20th century. Isabel gives an account of her family`s history.

2008.58.2

Family history sheets for the descendants of Lachlan MacDonald of Kenovay who emigrated to Patagonia.

Family history sheets for the descendants of Lachlan MacDonald of Kenovay who emigrated to Patagonia in the beginning of the 20th century, plus a hand-drawn chart.

2008.58.3

Photocopied newspaper cutting with a photograph of the great-grandson of Lachie MacDonald of Kenovay who emigrated to Patagonia.

Newspaper cutting with a photograph of Marcos Pavlovic playing the bagpipes at an Immigrants` Day parade in Patagonia. Marcos, who is wearing his grandfather`s MacDonald tartan tie, is the great-grandson of Lachie MacDonald of Kenovay who emigrated to Patagonia in the early 20th century.

2008.58.4

Colour photograph of the daughter-in-law of Lachie MacDonald, Kenovay with her two children.

L-R: Lia Horber, the daughter-in-law of Lachie MacDonald of Kenovay and wife of his son Jorge, with her daughter Isabel (b. 1960) and son Eduardo (b. 1858).

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2008.58.5

Colour photograph of the descendants of Lachie MacDonald, Kenovay in Patagonia in 2002.

The family of Jorge MacDonald, son of Lachie MacDonald of Kenovay who emigrated to Patagonia in the early 20th century. L-R: Jorge`s son Eduardo, Eduardo`s daughter Lucia, Jorge`s wife Lia Horber, his daughter Isabel`s daughter Virginia, Isabel, Isabel`s sons Marcos and Nicolas, Isabel`s husband Eduardo Pavlovic.

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2008.53.1

Black and white photograph of lawyer Alasdair MacDonald.

Alasdair MacDonald, from Tiree, was the oldest practicing lawyer in Ottawa when he died in 1994 aged ninety-three, having been a regular attendee at the Elgin Street offices of MacDonald Affleck until just nine months before he passed away. He came to Ottawa from Tiree during the First World War and was a prominent lawyer in the city for sixty-five years. He was a fluent Gaelic speaker who helped found the Chair of Celtic Studies at Ottawa University.

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