Newsletter `An Tirisdeach`, No. 413, 29/3/2008.
Local news and events including the arrival of Ross MacLennan`s new fishing boat, an interview with Colin Woodcock of Balemartine, and the launch of CalMac`s Gaelic Rings tours.
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 a horse-drawn wagon transporting lobster creels at Pictou Island in the early 20th century.
A horse-drawn wagon transporting lobster creels at Pictou Island in the mid-20th century. Lachie Dan MacCallum (1881-1967), great-grandson of the first miller at Cornaig, would have used a similar wagon to haul his gear until he stopped fishing around 1964.
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 fishing shanties on Pictou Island, Nova Scotia.
Shanties on Pictou Island, Nova Scotia occupied by during the lobster season (May-June) by fishermen from mainland Nova Scotia and Prince Edward island. The MacCallum brothers kept their lobster boats in this cove which is protected by a breakwater (out of view to the left). A lobster canning factory and a life-saving station maintained by the Canadian Government were located along this stretch of beach in the late 1880s.
Black and white photograph of Alasdair Sinclair of Brock with his siblings and uncle Lachie in the late 1930s.
Alasdair Sinclair of Brock with his sister Nancy, his brother Iain and his uncle Lachie on Gott Bay in 1938 or 1939. Alasdair is fishing for flounders with a spear made with an old cod hook tied it to a bamboo cane.
Photocopied extract from `Caithness: A Cultural Crossroads`, pp 160-212, by John Baldwin.
Hand netting traditions from Caithness, the Northern and Western Isles, illustrated with drawings and photographs.
Black and white photograph of the `Alice Roberts`, one of Hector MacPhail`s fishing boats.
Hector MacPhail of Ruaig standing on the deck of his fishing boat `Alice Roberts` in the Sound of Mull.
Colour photograph of Hector and Flora MacPhail of Skipinnish on board the `Ros Nuala`.
Hector and Flora MacPhail of Skipinnish with their children on board the `Ros Nuala`, a fishing boat bought in Donegal.
Colour photograph of Hector MacPhail`s fishing boat `Harbour Maid` in Milton harbour in 1972.
Hector MacPhail’s fishing boat, the `Harbour Maid`, in Milton harbour in 1972. She was built by MacKays of Stromness in Orkney.
