Here is some information which may interest the list - Robertson's Landmarks of Toronto, Volume 6, Chapter XXVII The Selkirk Settlement, pp121-26 Life of John Mackay, the last of the Band of Scottish Adventurers who went to the West in 1815 Dates in the Life of John McKay: 1814 born January 1814, son of Donald Mackay and Catherine Bruce, Kildonan, Scotland 1815 June 1815, ship "Hadlow" sailed from the port of Cromarty, Scotland, for Hudson's Bay. The passenger list of the Hadlow reads like the muster roll of one of the great Highland regiments of former days. There were the Mathesons, the Bannermans, the Mackays, the Murrays, Rosses, Sutherlands, MacBeths, Bruces, Polsons, Gunns, MacLeans, Farquharsons, Livingstons, Fletts, Frasers, and Macphersons. The "Hadlow" landed on the shores of Hudson's Bay in August 1815. 1819 John Mackay and one Sutherland, younger than himself, were entrusted to the care of Alexander Bannerman, a lad of fifteen, who took them for toboggan rides. 1820 His father, Donald Mackay, took him to the grave of his grandfather who was buried with nine of the men who had been killed in 1816 at the Battle of Seven Oaks. In the spring of 1820, a party of Selkirk settlers determined to abandon the settlement, and set out for what was then known as Canada. The party consisted of about 30 white people including Donald Mackay and his family (John Mackay was then six years old). He remembers the following names of members of that party: his grandmother, Elizabeth Matheson Mackay; his uncles Roderick and Robert Mackay; James Sutherland, his wife, their son James, and daughter Elizabeth; John Bannerman, his wife, and two sons, Alexander and John; Alexander Mackay, Adam Mackay, and their mother, a widow; George Ross, his wife, their son Benjamin; Alexander Murray and his son Alexander Murray. James Sutherland, one of the church leaders in Kildonan, Scotland, acted as their spiritual guide. The party followed the regular fur trading route along the waters that reached the Lake of the Woods, and continued to Fort William and open water. From there, they followed the north shore of Lake Superior to Sault Ste Marie. At the French River, the party separated from their guides and proceeded to Penetanguishene [on Georgian Bay]. By means of portages, they crossed over to Lake Simcoe and reached the Holland River at the south end of the lake, and Holland Landing. They proceeded to Newmarket where the family of Donald Mackay remained for two years before taking up land in Township of West Gwillimbury, Simcoe County. 1826 John Mackay and his friend, Sutherland, travelled 12 miles to Newmarket to see a circus. 1827 Highlanders from West Gwillimbury, led by Macbeth, travelled to Newmarket to cast their votes in the election (Cawthra vs Robinson). 1829 John Mackay and his friend, Sutherland, visited York (Toronto), and again in 1834, to sell grain. 1836 John Mackay, aged 22 yrs, married Christina Sutherland, a child of the Kildonan settlement. They made their home in West Gwillimbury until 1870 when they moved to Toronto and lived at 702 Ontario Street. John Mackay died on 2nd December 1908.