In the 1851 Agricultural Census for Westmeath Township, two brothers are farming side by side: Allan McCracken (1820- ) at Lot 24 of Concession Front A, with 200 acres and 40 acres under cultivation, and Thomas McCracken on Lot 23 of Conc. Front A, with 140 acres and 6 acres under cultivation. The Front A Concession was waterfront READ MORE
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CONROY, Martin & Betsy O’Leary, & Ellen McCarthy
Two sizable islands are formed west and east of the Westmeath Peninsula when the mighty Ottawa River is split into channels. The most westerly Isle-aux-Allumettes (Allumette Island) in the Pontiac Regional County Municipality, Quebec, is located just to the east of much smaller Morrison Island. The one to the east – downstream – is Grand-Calumet or Calumet Island. READ MORE
FYNN, Micheal & Winnifred Mitchell
Luck had it that a Fynn great-aunt set out the basics of the Fynn family: “Irishman Micheal Fynn was born in 1808, County Galway. Came to Canada with others of family and settled in Nova Scotia. He died in 1893 (85yrs). He worked down east for a man called Mcdonald, who gave him 200 acres READ MORE
FINDLAY, Brothers Walter & James
The Voters List for 1837 is the earliest we have for Westmeath Township and one might say that those men listed (women had no vote) are the grandfathers of the old township. One of those gentlemen was named Walter Findlay (1822 – 1904) and he would become well known and even have a very special set of islands in READ MORE
FRASER, Nelson and Margaret Kelly; William THOMPSON
The Fraser family story serves to illustrate the stamina and courage of an Irish pioneer women Margaret Kelly Fraser Thompson, who would see her husband and youngest child die at young ages, but go on to also experience the family’s climb to a better life through hard work and study. The Canadian Dream. Nelson Fraser READ MORE
MCBRIDE, John and Annie Jeffrey McBride
The McBride Immigrant Ancestors John McBride, with his 18 year old son James, came out from Belfast, County Down, Ireland, to Canada in 1848. Some months later, John’s wife Annie Jeffrey, and the other children, followed on the voyage to Canada. Annie kept a little store in Ireland after her husband had sailed for Canada, READ MORE
MCBRIDE, Henry and Addie Smith McBride; and Elizabeth McKay McBride
Born into a large family in 1877, he would witness person after person die at his home during his adult life. That degree of grief, turmoil and personal loss would take a large toll. Henry McBride was born second youngest in a family of seven brothers and two sisters, one of whom, eldest sister Annie, died young at age READ MORE
MCMULLEN, William and Jane Shields McMullen
“William Ian McMullen and his wife Mary Jane Shields; whom he married after he came to Canada from Ireland over 100 years ago, and bought land one mile West of Haley’s Station, to them was born five sons: William, James, John, Samuel, Jacob and two daughters Jennie, (Mrs. John Rose, Haley’s Station) and Nancy (Mrs. READ MORE
MCLEAN, John and Margaret McNevin McLean
“McLean or Maclean is a family name that goes back many years in the history of Beachburg. In some cases the spelling of the family name varies even within the same branch of the family. At one time there were three McLean families not related to each other in the Beachburg area.” Source: On the READ MORE
MCKIBBON, James
Jim McKibbon As submitted by his daughter Sandra Hansen to Beachburg-A Rich Inheritance Jim McKibbon was an enterprising man making his living from farming as well as fitting in many other jobs in the community. One of these tasks was to drain the buttermilk from Mr. Singleton’s creamery tanks into his own homemade tank and draw READ MORE