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Uncle Colin and the Crofters’ War
Family history is full of surprises, yielding new insights even in areas that have been gone over many times. I’ve looked at my Henderson ancestry before. My mother’s family, the Hendersons, came to Canada around the time of the First World War, settling in Toronto. The story of Alexander Henderson, her grandfather, is one that…
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We All Wanna Be Rob Roy’s
One of the Scottish ancestors I have always been curious about is my great-grandmother, Maggie Roy. The rumour in our family was that she was related to the famous Scottish rebel, Rob Roy, whom Liam Neeson played in the 1995 film of the same name. This connection seemed unlikely to me after doing a bit of…
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The Dry Thomsons
My great-grandfather David Thomson was quite the man, I’m told. He was born on the Isle of Skye in Scotland in 1895. Harold McCullagh wrote a book about him, which was published in 1978: The Man Who Made New Brunswick Sing. His legacy popped up in all sorts of ways over the course of my childhood. I…
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