Photocopied notice of Argyll County Council meeting in Dunoon on 4/10/1894 re the Roads and Bridges (Scotland) Act, 1878.
Meeting to add a number of roads in Tiree to the list of roads, highways and bridges maintained by the council.
Photograph of Mary Flora MacKinnon, Archibald Campbell and John Kennedy, c. 1915.
Taken outside the thatched house in Balephuil where Mary Flora and her husband Donald MacKinnon lived with Mary Flora`s father Archibald Campbell, c. 1915. L-R: John Kennedy (known as `Clever`), a neighbour, Mary Flora MacKinnon, the mother of the two children and Archibald Campbell. Both men were blind. `Clever` travelled around the world in sailing ships and had the second sight. Donald and Mary Flora emigrated to New Zealand in 1927.
Photograph of Margaret Sinclair, Balephuil, c. 1900.
Margaret Sinclair, Balephuil, composer of Tiree songs. She married a Mr Vaughan and went to live in Ireland. Her brother Alasdair wrote `Am falbh thu leam, a ribhinn og`.
Photograph of Colin, Katina and Kate MacDonald in Balephuil about 1927.
L-R: Colin, Katina and Kate MacDonald outside Colin`s thatched house in Balephuil around 1927. Colin (Cailein Fhearchair) composed several songs including `An teid thu leam, a Mhaggi Chaluim`.
Copied postcard of Balephuil taken in the 1920s.
View of Balephuil.
Photograph of Rev Donald MacArthur baptising in Loch a` Phuill in the early 1920s.
Rev. Donald MacArthur baptising in Loch a` Phuill in the early 1920s.
Photocopied information about Canadian immigrant Charles MacLean.
Three Canadian newspaper articles about Charles MacLean who emigrated from Tiree in 1878 and settled in Little Souris, Manitoba; City of Brandon municipal cemetery interment order for Charles MacLean dated 15/8/1928.
Photocopied family history sheets for Charles, John and Hector MacLean.
Family histories for Charles, John and Hector MacLean from Balephuil who emigrated to Canada in 1878.
Handwritten information and three photocopied newspaper articles about the first settlers in Little Souris, Manitoba.
Controversy over the first settlers in Little Souris, Manitoba, some people claiming the Rev. Roddick from Dumfrieshire was the first, others the MacLeans from Ballephuil.
Newspaper article `Big buoy bumps into Isle of Tiree`.
France Telecam Marine buoy found near West Hynish by Tearlach MacDonald, Balephuil.
