Colour photograph of decorated bone combs from the broch at Vaul in the Hunterian Museum in Glasgow.
Decorated Viking bone combs from the broch at Vaul photographed in the Hunterian Museum in May 2006.
2008.25.6
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2007.126.1
Black and white photograph of Rev. Alexander MacFadyen of Vaul.
Alexander MacFadyen was born on 14th February 1831 in Vaul, the son of John MacFadyen and his wife Flora MacFadyen. Alexander, deeply religious from an early age, married Mary MacLean in Broadford, Skye, in 1862, by which time he had become a Baptist missionary. Their first son, Daniel, was born in Kilchoman, Islay, in 1866, after which the young couple emigrated to Canada so that Alexander could take his mission to a new world.
2007.95.1
Photocopied newspaper cutting about the funerals of Lachlan MacKinnon of Hillcrest and Tommy Wilson of Vaul.
Two newspaper articles about the funerals of Lachlan MacKinnon of Hillcrest and Tommy Wilson of Vaul.
2007.31.2
Copy of a photograph of Dugald MacKinnon of Vaul and Brandon, Manitoba.
Dugald MacKinnon of Vaul and Brandon, Manitoba with the moose team he trained (see 2007.31.1 for story).
2007.31.3
Dugald MacKinnon and his moose team
Photograph of Dugald MacKinnon and his moose team in the early 1900s.
Courtesy of Mr Wallace Robertson
John Mackinnon of Vaul and his wife Mary Ann MacDonald emigrated to Shoal Lake, Manitoba in 1878 with their two children Dugald and Sarah. Dugald, it was said, was akin to a ‘horse whisperer’ as he could tame the most difficult of horses. He was an avid horseman and traded horses across Manitoba and Montana.
He trained two moose calves captured by a farmer, Walter Anderson, and broke them to harness. They were a common sight on the streets of Brandon when Dugald began courting Mary Flora MacLean, and caused a sensation during the summer fair of 1905.
The owner of a visiting carnival offered to buy them but Anderson kept upping the price and the deal fell through. Dugald refused to have any more to do with the animals. He eloped with Mary Flora to Grand Forks, North Dakota where they were married.
Copy of a photograph of Dugald MacKinnon of Vaul and Brandon, Manitoba.
Dugald MacKinnon of Vaul and Brandon, Manitoba with his moose team (see 2007.31.1 for story).
2007.31.4
Page of information about Dugald MacKinnon and his parents.
Page of information about Dugald MacKinnon and his parents, by Wallace Roberston and Louise MacDougall.
2006.166.1
Copied photograph of Catriona MacLean (Catriona Sheumais) of Vaul standing outside the original Scarinish lighthouse in the 1940s, before its renovation.
2006.76.1
Black and white photograph of the wedding of Peter MacArthur of Heylipol and Flora MacKinnon of Dunmore, Vaul at the Alexandria Hotel, Glasgow on the 1st June 1914.
L-R: (back) unknown; unknown; unknown; unknown; unknown; Peter MacArthur (groom, aged 39); Duncan MacArthur (best man); Flora MacKinnon (bride, aged 36); Rev. T. MacPherson of Yoker Church of Scotland; unknown; unknown; Jessie MacArthur;
(front) Christina MacArthur (?); Jimmy MacArthur; Alexander MacArthur; Hugh MacArthur; Marion MacKinnon (bridesmaid); Charles MacKinnon; Maggie MacKinnon; Kate MacKinnon (Mrs Hugh Lamont); Mary Flora MacKinnon (Mrs Charles MacKinnon); unknown; unknown. (CD with scanned photo in Pedestal Unit drawer 2; photo key in Filing Cabinet 8 drawer4.)
2005.135.2
Black and white phootograph of Morag MacIntyre of Silversands, Vaul.
Morag MacIntyre (1897-1967) of Silversands, Vaul.
