Sepia photograph of John MacKinnon, his wife Christena Clark and their family in front of their farmhouse on Lot 31, Concession 11, Kincardine Township, Bruce County, Ontario, Canada. L-R: Hugh, John and Christie, George, Margaret, Finnie, Charles J. and Sarah.
Sepia photograph of the MacKinnon cousins, descendants of Fingon MacKinnon and his wife Christena MacLean. L-R: (back): Archie’s son Finnie George, John’s son Finnie, Hugh’s son Malcolm, Archie’s daughter Elizabeth, Allan’s son Charles, (front) Allan’s daughter May, Archie’s daughter Kit, John’s son Hugh, Hugh’s son Dan, John’s daughter Margaret, and Archie’s daughter Sarah.
Black and white photograph of four of the ten children of Archibald MacKinnon (1837-1914), son of Fingon MacKinnon, and his wife Catherine MacDonald. L-R: Margaret (Retta), Malcolm (Mac), Elizabeth and Hughena (Eva).
Sepia photograph of descendants of Fingon MacKinnon from Salum and his wife Christena MacLean from Ruaig: Finnie MacKinnon (1868-1929), the son of John MacKinnon and his wife Christena Clark, with his first cousins Retta (Margaret) and Finnie George, two of the children of Archibald MacKinnon and his wife Catherine MacDonald.
Black and white photograph of John Hector MacKinnon with his brother Dan.
Descendants of Fingon MacKinnon and his wife Christina MacLean: John Hector MacKinnon and his brother Donald known as Dan, sons of Hugh MacKinnon and his wife Ann MacDonald. One of Dan’s cousins recalled many decades later in a letter to his daughter, ‘On one of his visits East, your father, a gay Lothario, had a grand winter in Ontario. The girls all fell for him. He was all dressed up in fur-lined coat and fur cap and he was good-looking and he met and married your mother.’
Printout of a scanned postcard postmarked 1916 from nurse Elizabeth MacKinnon, granddaughter of Fingon MacKinnon to her aunt Christie in Canada, plus a short biography of Elizabeth`s life.
Printout of scanned newspaper cutting from pioneer life in Manitoba in the 1880s.
Pioneer stories of Scottish emigrants to Manitoba in the 1880s.
Copy of sepia photograph of John MacKinnon from Cornaigbeg with his wife Mary and daughter Clara.
John Campbell McKinnon with daughter Clara and wife Mary. John was born in Cornaigbeg, Isle of Tiree in 1844, the son of John McKinnon Sr. and Grace Campbell. John and Grace McKinnon had four other children – Mary (1838), Donald (1839), Catherine (1842), and Hugh (1843). After Grace died in Tiree, John Snr emigrated with his children to Canada in June 1949 aboard the ‘Charlotte’ as assisted passengers. John Jnr settled in Cannington, Ontario, married Mary Grace Williton in 1874, and had ten children. He died in 1925 and is buried in Cannington.
Black and white photograph of the children of John C. MacKinnon from Cornaigbeg.
The children of John Campbell MacKinnon (1844-1925) from Cornaigbeg and his wife Mary Williton in Cannington, Ontario around 1905. L-R: (back row) Mary, Howard, Maude, (front row) Rhoda, Grace, Clara and Donalda. Their father emigrated to Ontario in June 1849 aboard the ‘Charlotte’ with his father John and siblings after the death of his mother in Tiree.
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Printout of scanned handwritten draft of poem `Oran Mhanitoba` by John MacLean, the Balephuil bard.
Scan of an incomplete handwritten draft of poem `Manitoba` by John MacLean, the Balephuil bard, composed on New Years Day 1880.
