McKaig family fonds

• Document textuel

• Source du titre propre: Title based on contents of the fonds

collection

Public Archives and Records Office of Prince Edward Island

CA PCA Acc4371

16 textual documents

McKaig, John (Family)

The McKaig letters were preserved by Margaret Ann (Nicholson) Darrach (Mrs. Angus), step-daughter of John McKaig Senior. The MacLeod letters were preserved by Annie (Darrach) MacBeth (Mrs. Alexander), grandniece of the author of the letters. All the documents were handed down through the Darrach family until their placement in the Public Archives and Records Office.

The fonds consists of 12 documents of the McKaig family and 3 letters from Angus MacNeill MacLeod (1859-1866) re his life in New York to his brother Donald in P.E.I. The McKaig letters are mostly from family and friends in Scotland and Halifax and concern family matters, weather, happenings in Britain such as the cholera epidemic, the building of tramways in Glasgow, and the Edinburgh exhibition. Some mention is made of John McKaig's crops in the early years. The fonds also contains a draft of a petition from the tenants of Lot [31]? to the House of Assembly that an act be passed disallowing the collection of arrears of rent by the landlords until the report of the Land Commissioners is made.

• Land - Tenure

• McKaig, John (Family) (Producteur)
• MacLeod (Family), New Haven (P.E.I.) (Sujet)
• McKaig, John (Family) (Sujet)