Darryl, I have had the same experience Googling her name. I have a few old photocopies that were given to me many years ago: "Nineteenth Century Tiree Emigrant Communities in Ontario", Oral History, The Journal of the Oral History Society, Vol 9 No 2, Autumn 1981, pp 49-61 "Poets and Pioneers" - publication information unknown Apparently there are audio tapes at the Sound Archive of the School of Scottish Studies (Edinburgh) of interviews taped in 1974-75 and 1978-79 in Brock Tp, Osprey Tp, Kincardine Tp and Bruce Tp. All of this could be quite interesting to many on our list if they could be made available. Russ McGillivray >From: Darryl <stoutd@shaw.ca> >To: russmcgillivray@hotmail.com >Subject: Re: [SCT-ARL-TIREE] Emigrants to Canada >Date: Wed, 08 Feb 2006 13:58:34 -0800 > >Russ: > >Do you know if and where her emigration articles are available. I have not >been able to find any with Google. > >Darryl > >Russ McGillivray wrote: >>I wonder if this isn't a tape of a talk by Dr. Margaret McKay of the >>School of Scottish Studies, Univ of Edinburgh, who has done much research >>on Tiree emigration and published numerous articles. BTW, she is scheduled >>to speak at the Tiree Gathering 2006. >> >>(just the guess of a genealogist used to jumping to conclusions based on >>similarities of name!) >> >>Russ McGillivray >> >> >>>From: Maureen Clarke <mauclarke@yahoo.com> >>>Reply-To: SCT-ARL-TIREE-L@rootsweb.com >>>To: SCT-ARL-TIREE-L@rootsweb.com >>>Subject: Re: [SCT-ARL-TIREE] Emigrants to Canada >>>Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2006 09:56:39 -0800 (PST) >>> >>>This cassette is listed with Appalachian Regional >>>Studies at Radford University. The info says that many >>>cassettes are available for checkout but I haven't >>>used them personally. >>>Maureen Clarke >>> >>>--- Dale Edmonstone <tobermory@sympatico.ca> wrote: >>> >>> > Last year while surfing the Internet, I came across >>> > a listing for this recording at Radford University >>> > in Virginia, "Audio/Cass. DA750. MM1SS36.1993.1 >>> > Scottish Emigrants: Tiree to Canada By Maggie >>> > McKay". I emailed the University, but I did not >>> > receive any reply. >>> > Do any of our listers know of this recording or of >>> > Ms. McKay? >>> > >>> > Dale Edmonstone >>> > >>> > >>> > ============================== >>> > New! Family Tree Maker 2005. Build your tree and >>> > search for your ancestors at the same time. Share >>> > your tree with family and friends. Learn more: >>> > >>>http://landing.ancestry.com/familytreemaker/2005/tour.aspx?sourceid=14599&targetid=5429 >>> >>> > >>> > >>> >>> >>>__________________________________________________ >>>Do You Yahoo!? >>>Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around >>>http://mail.yahoo.com >>> >>> >>>============================== >>>Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the >>>last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: >>>http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx >>> >> >> >> >>============================== >>Find your ancestors in the Birth, Marriage and Death Records. >>New content added every business day. Learn more: >>http://www.ancestry.com/s13964/rd.ashx >> >> >>

Thanks for this information Russ. Yes, we really need to figure out how to get Dr. Mackay's interviews available to Tiree researchers. I am particularly interested in the Kincardine and Bruce Township intereviews. Does anyone have transcriptions of any of those? In addition to the Ontario intereviews you mentioned below, she also did interviews out West. I know of one pioneer family in Saskatchewan who was interviewed by her, and my own Great-great Uncle "Bard John McLean" who emigrated from Balephuille to the Brandon area of Manitoba is featured in her "Poets and Pioneers". In that article, she also tells of Dugald McKinnon of Manitoba who went courting his future bride with his team of trained moose (Dugald was a relative of Wallace Robertson of Winnipeg, MB, and the Bard just mentioned was Wallace's great-great-uncle). Maybe Dr. Mackay will use some of her Canadian interview material in her forthcoming book which is mentioned on the Tiree Archive website as follows: "Dr. Margaret A. Mackay. A Scottish Canadian, Margaret Mackay is Director of the School of Scottish Studies at the University of Edinburgh, where she is also Senior Lecturer in Scottish Ethnology. She is very well known in Tiree, having undertaken extensive fieldwork in the island, focusing particularly on emigration to Canada. She has written major articles on Tiree communities in Canada, and is engaged in a book on the history of Tiree in the eighteenth and nineteenth century." (Source: http://www.smo.uhi.ac.uk/~iodhlann/index.html and then click "Our Stucture") About the tape by her which started this discussion, I think I might know which one it is. I will dig around a bit and post a separate message about it. Louise MacDougall Vancouver Island, Canada -----Original Message----- From: Russ McGillivray [mailto:russmcgillivray@hotmail.com] Sent: February 10, 2006 5:02 AM To: SCT-ARL-TIREE-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [SCT-ARL-TIREE] Emigrants to Canada Darryl, I have had the same experience Googling her name. I have a few old photocopies that were given to me many years ago: "Nineteenth Century Tiree Emigrant Communities in Ontario", Oral History, The Journal of the Oral History Society, Vol 9 No 2, Autumn 1981, pp 49-61 "Poets and Pioneers" - publication information unknown Apparently there are audio tapes at the Sound Archive of the School of Scottish Studies (Edinburgh) of interviews taped in 1974-75 and 1978-79 in Brock Tp, Osprey Tp, Kincardine Tp and Bruce Tp. All of this could be quite interesting to many on our list if they could be made available. Russ McGillivray >From: Darryl <stoutd@shaw.ca> >To: russmcgillivray@hotmail.com >Subject: Re: [SCT-ARL-TIREE] Emigrants to Canada >Date: Wed, 08 Feb 2006 13:58:34 -0800 > >Russ: > >Do you know if and where her emigration articles are available. I have >not been able to find any with Google. > >Darryl > >Russ McGillivray wrote: >>I wonder if this isn't a tape of a talk by Dr. Margaret McKay of the >>School of Scottish Studies, Univ of Edinburgh, who has done much >>research on Tiree emigration and published numerous articles. BTW, she >>is scheduled to speak at the Tiree Gathering 2006. >> >>(just the guess of a genealogist used to jumping to conclusions based >>on similarities of name!) >> >>Russ McGillivray >> >> >>>From: Maureen Clarke <mauclarke@yahoo.com> >>>Reply-To: SCT-ARL-TIREE-L@rootsweb.com >>>To: SCT-ARL-TIREE-L@rootsweb.com >>>Subject: Re: [SCT-ARL-TIREE] Emigrants to Canada >>>Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2006 09:56:39 -0800 (PST) >>> >>>This cassette is listed with Appalachian Regional Studies at Radford >>>University. The info says that many cassettes are available for >>>checkout but I haven't used them personally. >>>Maureen Clarke >>> >>>--- Dale Edmonstone <tobermory@sympatico.ca> wrote: >>> >>> > Last year while surfing the Internet, I came across a listing for >>> > this recording at Radford University in Virginia, "Audio/Cass. >>> > DA750. MM1SS36.1993.1 Scottish Emigrants: Tiree to Canada By >>> > Maggie McKay". 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