Audio cassette recording of Hector MacPhail talking at the Scarinish Hotel in January 1998.
Hector MacPhail of Ruaig talks at the Scarinish Hotel on 31st January 1998 about emigration to Canada, New Zealand and Patagonia, the Duke of Argyll’s factors, the MacNiven family, cattle droves, smacks and schooners, the shops at Middleton and Hynish, three Tiree men who emigrated to Seattle, ancient graveyards, a school trip to Dundee, Captain Donald MacKinnon of the Taeping, the Downie family, emigration history at Inverary Archives, CalMac boats, the storms in 1953 and 1968, the emigrations of 1855 and 1877. (Continued on AC43)
Photocopied list of cash paid to emigrants from Tiree to Canada in June 1846.
List of cash paid by Ground Officer Archibald MacLean to emigrants from Tiree to Canada on 9th June 1846, giving township, name, status (tenant or cottar), number in family, amount paid and further information, e.g. house pulled down, lived with brother.
Photocopied list of emigrants from Tiree paying their own passage to Canada, dated June 1848.
List of emigrants from Tiree paying their own passage to Canada, dated June 1848, giving twonship, name, status and the amount they are to receive from Alexander Thompson, banker in Greenock.
Photocopied list of disbursements made to emigrants from Tiree in June 1849.
Accounts of disbursements made to emigrants from Tiree in June 1849, giving township, name, number in family, status, amounts paid for stock, crops, implements and furniture and amounts paid as assistance.
