Louise: This may not be news to you but I just found this translation of one of your uncles poems (Hi Horo 's Na Horo Eile) here: http://sniff.numachi.com/~rickheit/dtrad/pages/tiHIHORO.html. I am looking for a translation of "Oran Mhanitoba" but haven't found it yet. There are some oral interviews at this site (http://www.tiriodh.ed.ac.uk/index.cfm?fuseaction=search). Searching for "Canada" I only got 3 hits one being: Background to Oran Mhanitoba. I assume that this site only has a few examples of Dr. Mackay et al. work. Do you know if that is true? Darryl Louise MacDougall wrote: > 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". 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. 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