Black and white photograph of Lachlan MacCallum (1823-1903) from Cornaigbeg.
Lachlan MacCallum was born in Cornaigbeg in 1823. He emigrated to Canada with his mother and brother in 1842 and settled in Ontario where he worked as a contractor and shipbuilder. For many years a Member of Parliament, he was appointed as senator in 1887 and died in office in 1903. In 1854 he married Priscilla Thewlis, an American of English descent, and the 1881 cenus for Sherbrooke, Monck County in Ontario records six children to the marriage. He was a hero at the defense of Fort Erie during the Fenian Raids of 1866.
Black and white photograph of Lachlan MacCallum (1823-1903) from Cornaigbeg, a native of Tiree and member of the Canadian Senate.
Lachlan emigrated to Canada with his mother and brother in 1842 and settled in Ontario where he worked as a contractor and shipbuilder. For many years a Member of Parliament, he was appointed as senator in 1887 and died in office in 1903.
Black and white photograph of fishing smacks at Pictou Island at the end of the 19th century. People from Tiree who emigrated there at that time, would have fished from these boats.
Black and white photograph of the lighthouse at the east end of Pictou Island at the end of the 19th century.
The lighthouse at the east end of Pictou Island at the end of the 19th century, with lightkeeper Andrew MacFarlane (1855-1927), his wife Flora MacPherson (1862-1931) and their children. The fathers of Andrew and Flora both came from Mull.
Black and white photograph of Lachie Dan MacCallum (1881-1967) with his grandson Ken MacCallum in the 1950s.
Lachie Dan MacCallum (1881-1967), the great-grandson of the first miller at Cornaig, with his grandson Ken MacCallum in Lachie`s lobster boat at Pictou, Nova Scotia around 1958.
Colour photograph of Daniel MacCallum`s house on Pictou Island, Nova Scotia.
Aerial view of the house of Daniel MacCallum (1835-1897) on Pictou Island, Nova Scotia. Daniel`s parents Lauchlin MacCallum (1793-1877) and Mary MacLean (1793-1876) were natives of Tiree. Lauchlin`s father John was the first miller at Cornaig. The house was probably built in the late 1870s; the barn is newly constructed.
Black and white photograph of Christena Brown, the daughter of Neil Brown (1819-1905) from Heylipol, with her husband and son.
Christena Brown (b. 1876), the daughter of Neil Brown (1819-1905) from Heylipol, with her husband Herbert Fowler and their son Frank (b. 1907), photographed in Canada.
Family tree of the descendants of Angus Brown of Heylipol and his wife Mary MacArthur.
The descendants of Angus Brown of Heylipol and his wife Mary MacArthur. After the couple`s death, their children emigrated to Canada in the late 1840s.
Colour photograph of a Lynday family gathering in the late 1990s.
A Lyndsay family gathering in the late 1990s in Canada. They are descendants of Arnold and Stella Lindsay; Stella was the grand-daughter of Neil Brown (1919-1905) from Heylipol who emigrated to Canada in the late 1840s.
