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              CA BI T-2034 · Item · 1982
              Part of Sound and Moving Image Collection

              Biographical Sketch
              Genealogy of the Loch Lomond MacDonald'
              Farming in the early days
              Dominion Coal Company cut lumber at Silver Mine
              Describes the operation, log bridge built across the river
              The log drive to the sawmill...
              Describes the process of hauling logs to the river
              Logs provided lumber for company houses
              Started school at age of 10
              His first teacher, Jessie Morrison
              Far from school, boarded with his aunt...
              Describes the school, how it was heated, the discipline
              Left school after grade 5
              Started working at the Steel Plant, 1926
              During Depression, little work - plant worked 2 days a week
              Women were hired during the War (WW II)
              Work on the farm - what the women did - the day's routine

              Food - fish, how it was preserved
              Making farm implement
              Hay making in the early days
              Dairy proucts - keeping milk cold
              The arrival of cream separators, their care
              His father was postmaster, 1912
              Carried mail to Salmon River, $1 a trip
              Discusses operation of the post office & mail route
              First post office at Loch Lomond
              News papers - Sydney (N.S.) Weekly Post, Family Herald
              Wages at the Steel Plants after the War
              Describes work at the Plant
              United Steel Workers Union didn't get started until after 1941
              The Plant Council...
              Life on the farm - kerosene lamps, wood stoves...
              Water from the well - never frozen because of its depth
              When the mine started, the well went dry
              No social activities in his youth
              Church history - lay preachers in the earliest times
              Present church built in 1910
              United Church at Loch Lomond opened 1929
              The first ministers...
              Dissension and division over the union
              Choir made up of older people
              Prayer meetings held in school once a week
              Gaelic the only language spoken at home; few could repeat it
              His thoughts on Gaelic Today
              He and all his brothers & sisters, born at home, delivered by a midwife, Peggy Currie
              Never felt that his likfe lacked anything
              Discusses food on the farm; potatoes & turnip the only vegetables
              Implements manufactured in the forge
              Four blacksmiths in the area, he gives their names; none today
              Names 3 merchants that were in the area at the time
              Pioneer craftes, processing wool
              Describes his trip to North Uist, his search for information on Malcolm "The Carpnter"
              Describes the Presbyterian Church in Scotland, his impression
              Describes a Gaelic service he attended
              Sunday laws stricty bserved there
              Some more genealogy
              His mother's weaving - she was self taught
              Mary MacLean whom he visited in Scotland
              Reads in Gaelic

              Macdonald, Wilma J.
              CA BI T-1084 · Item · 1975
              Part of Sound and Moving Image Collection

              MacNeil, Stephen R. Iona "Reisemaid Ghàidhealeach Eilean C.B." (185th Battalion)

              Morrison, Dan Neil Loch Lomond "Chi mi na mòrbheanna..."

              MacLellan, Angus Grand Mira (N.S.) "Cumha MhicChriomain"

              MacLellan, Angus Grand Mira (N.S.) "Creach na Samhna"

              MacLellan, Angus Grand Mira (N.S.) "Óran a 'Mhathain"

              MacLellan, Angus Grand Mira (N.S.) "Postman's Song"

              MacLellan, Angus Grand Mira (N.S.) "Óran na Bainnse" (Cape Mabou Wedding)

              MacLellan, Angus Grand Mira (N.S.) "Poite-dhubh MhicRaing

              Campbell, Hector Hillsdale, Inverness County (N.S.) "A ' bhrádha"

              Shaw, John
              Archie Morrison fonds
              CA BI MG 6.34 · Fonds · 1900-1979

              This fonds consists of a collection of Gaelic songs, stories, poetry, history and tombstone inscriptions.

              Papers are in Gaelic:

              1. Story: “Seann Chuimhneachan air a’ Choire Ghlas” copied from the work by John MacCormick, first appearing in An Gaidheal, Vol.2. Photocopy, 12 pages.
              2. Story: "A’Bhean Iadach" from Am Measg Nam Bodach, 1938.
                "Iain Ciar agus an Robair" from Aig Tigh na Beinne by Katherine Whyte Grant.
                "Eoghan Ruadh aig a ‘Mhod" from The Celtic Garland by Henry Whyte. Photocopies, 20 pages.
              3. Poetry and songs, many by Cape Breton bards. many have been copied from songs appearing in The History of Christmas Island Parish. Also a song composed by Murdoch Morrison of Ferguson's Lake and Gaelic translations of English hymns. Photocopies and originals, 38 pages.
              4. An typed excerpt from the Gaelic translation of the Episcopalian Book of Common Prayer. Photocopy, 1 page.
              5. Description of Islands of Coll, Uist and Mull copied from the book Am Measg nam Bodach, 1938.
              6. Inscriptions on the tombstones of John MacLean, Gaelic bard; Rev. Alexander MacLean Sinclair and Mrs. John Sinclair. Photocopy, 1 page. Presented by Mr. Morrison.
              CA BI MG 21.8-T-3024 · Item
              Part of D.J. MacDermaid Songs & Stories Collection

              Item is a sound recording of Gaelic singers copied from a recording by Kenneth Morrison.

              Track List: Side A
              Track A1 - Oran a'Mhinistear. Composed by Rev. Kenneth MacLeod of Humes River. Singer: Dan K. MacLeod, Grand River. 05:01
              Track A2 - Théid mi gad Amhairc. Composed by John Campbell of Ledaig, Scotland. In: Modern Gaelic Bards p. 182 04:44
              Track A3 - An Téid thu Leam a Ribhinn Mhaiseach. Singer: Dan K. MacLeod, Grand River.
              Track A4 - Suas Leis a'Ghàidhlig. Singer Neil Morrison, Loch Lomond.
              Track A5 - Eilean Mo Chridhe. Singer: Alice Morrison, Grand River Falls.
              Track A6 - Local English composition about bachelors. Chorus: There's Scotsmen and Frenchmen wherever you go. Singer: Alice Morrison, Grand River.
              Track A7 - E ho Nighean Hi Ho Nighean/ Cailin Donn na Buaile. Local composition about bachelors. Singer: Angus Morrison.
              Track A8 - Morrison's Store/Christmas at the Bridge. Local English composition. SInger: Alice Morrison, Grand River Falls.

              Side B
              Track B1a - Òran na Tì. Local composition concerning tea. Composer unknown. Singer: Angus Morrison. 03:26
              Track B1b - The Party Telephone (English) . SInger: Alice Morrison, Grand River Falls. 03:01
              Track B2 - a Mhàiri Bhòidheach. Composed by Alexander Stewart of North Uist. Singer: Unkown.
              Track B3 - Mo Nighean Donn an t-Sùgraidh. Singer: Norman MacDermaid, Framboise and Massachusetts. 05:11
              Track B4(1) Local composition about a women on a winter's sea voyage ending in Framboise. Composer and singer: unkown.
              Track B4(2) - Canada Thir An Aigh. Composed by Catherine (MacLeod) MacInnis of Framboise. Singer: Norman MacDermaid, Framboise and Massachusetts. IN: Beyond the Hebrides p. 131. 04:36
              Track B4(3) - An Téid thu Leam a Mhàiri. Singer: Norman MacDermaid, Framboise and Massachusetts. In an t-Òranaiche. 04:52
              Track B5 - Fear nam Fiaclan. Singer: Kenny Morrison, Loch Lomond and Sydney. 01:43

              MG 21.8-T-3033 · Item
              Part of D.J. MacDermaid Songs & Stories Collection

              Item is a sound recording of Gaelic Songs with Ross MacDonald.

              Cassette notes it as tape #116.

              Track List:
              Side A
              Track A1 - Àm ar n-Òige. Composed by Kenneth A. Ferguson. In: Beyond the Hebrides p. 192. 03:31
              Track A2 - Òran Nighinn. Local Composition. Composer unknown. 05:00
              Track A3 - Mo Nighean Dubh tha Bòidheach Dubh. 04:50
              Track A4 - Fuadach nan Gàidheal. 02:02
              Track A5 - Is Toigh Leam an Gàidhealtachd. 02:45
              Track A6 - Moladh an Lanndaidh. 02:53
              Track A7 - Gléidh an Dùn. Hymn. 02:16
              Track A8 - Tha e Beò. Hymn. 02:17
              Track A9 - O m' Anam Beannaich Thusa Nisd. Psalm 103 sung as a hymn. 02:05
              Track A10 - Tha Dòmhnall air an t-Saoghail seo 's e tàmh ri taobh Loch Lomond. Local Composition. 01:56
              Track A11 - Thug Mi Gaol don' Fhear Bhàin. 01:01

              Side B
              Track B1 - Hymn in Gaelic 03:11
              Track B2 - Hymn in Gaelic 03:03
              Track B3 - 23rd Psalm in Gaelic sung as a hymn, 03:44
              Track B4 - Were You there when they Crucified my Lord. Recording of choir. 04:56
              Track B5 - Hymn in English. Sung by choir. 03:47
              Track B6 - Coming Home. Hymn in English. 04:55

              CA BI T-2051 · Item · 1982
              Part of Sound and Moving Image Collection

              His people came from North Uist Angus "Mor" MacDonald & his friends prepared for a year to emigrate

              The people who "drove" them out

              People who came: MacLeods, Morrisons, MacKinnons, Beatons

              His grandfather's family - 10 children, 2 born here

              His grandmother told him stories of Scotland

              They sailed from Loch Maddy on "The Commerce", weeks & 6 days on the journey

              Half the group went to West Bay, the rest stayed at Irish Cove - finally all moved to Loch Lomond area

              How they acquired stock - oxen, horses, cattle

              Many brands - songs were never published

              His experiences going west on the "Harvest" trains

              Wages & working conditions

              Describes different types of work in the lumber camps

              The pioneers' religion

              Log churches - snow blew in between the logs

              Church services, precenting

              Social life - ceilidhs, milling frolics,

              Milling songs - the best singers were in Loch Lomond

              Weddings - the "drive" after the marriage, as many as 100 wagons

              One of the songs they sang during the drive - "Cha bhi mi buan 's tu bhi buan"

              Sings a chorus of the song

              Macdonald, Norman
              CA BI T-391 · Item · 1977
              Part of Sound and Moving Image Collection

              Item is an audio recording of a gaelic church service in Loch Lomond, Cape Breton (N.S).

              MacDonald, Rev. J.B.N. - Opening prayers

              Loch Lomond Gaelic Singers - Hymn

              MacDonald, Rev. J.B.N. - Prayer

              Loch Lomond Gaelic Singers - Precenting

              MacDonald, Rev. J.B.N. - Scripture reading - 23rd Psalm

              Loch Lomond Gaelic Singers - Hymn

              MacDonald, Ross; Morrison, Kenneth - Hymn - "In the Garden"

              Loch Lomond Gaelic Singers - Precenting

              MacDonald, Rev. J.B.N. - Sermon

              MacDonald, Rev. J.B.N. - Sermon

              Loch Lomond Gaelic Singers - Precenting

              MacDonald, Mary Catherine "Kay"