Booklet `Sìl an Eòrna – Children of the Barley` 2006
Booklet about the circumstances and fates of people who left Tiree en masse, sailing to Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Patagonia and USA during the mid 1800s to early 1900s. Researched by Dr John Holliday for a summer exhibition at An Iodhlann.
Magazine article about Calum MacKinnon who is a fiddler in Seattle with Tiree parents
Article in `Fiddler Magazine` about Calum MacKinnon, Seattle, whose parents were from Tiree. Includes a photograph of Calum with his fiddle class at the Tiree Fèis in 1998 including Sarah Holliday, Mairi Ann Munn, Jennifer MacKinnon, Morven MacInnes and others (pages 4 to 9).
National flag of the United States of America
National flag of the USA used during A` Bhuain – Tiree Homecoming 2006. Red, white and blue.
State flag of Minnesota, USA
State flag of Minnesota, USA used during A` Bhuain – Tiree Homecoming 2006. White, red, yellow, green and blue depiction of the circular city seal on blue background.
Copy of tintype photograph of Neil Cameron 1824-1909.
Neil Cameron (1824-1909) of Balevullin who emigrated to Canada on the `Charlotte` in 1849 with his widowed mother Flora MacFarlane Cameron and his brothers and sisters. He married Margaret Thornhill in 1857 and had five children: John, Robert, Margret Jane, Hugh and Flora. He moved to Michigan and then Minnesota where he took out American citizenship.
CD `To meet again on Eilean Dubh`.
Live recording of the fourth Scottish Island Concert performed in Olivet Congregational Church, St Paul, Minnesota in February 2006.
Paperback book `Glencoe and the Indians` by James Hunter.
A real-life family saga which spans two continents, several centuries and more than thirty generations to link Scotland`s clans with the native peoples of American West.
De-accessioned 20.3.2026.
Paperback book `The Mobile Scot` by Jeanette M. Brock.
A study of Scottish emigration and migration 1861-1911based on a thesis which won the Hume Brown prize for Scottish history.
Paperback book `A Dance called America` by James Hunter.
Account of what happened to the thousands of people who, over the last two hundred years, left the Highlands and Islands to make new lives in the United States and Canada.
Paperback book `The Highland Clearances` by Eric Richards.
An account of the origins of the Clearances in the 18th century, the crofting legislation of the 1880s and how the the process of clearance was part of a wider European movement of rural depopulation.
