https://glengarryhistoricalsociety.com/dokusoft/!add/ 2026-04-17T10:13:51+00:00 https://glengarryhistoricalsociety.com/dokusoft/!add/ https://glengarryhistoricalsociety.com/dokusoft/!add/lib/exe/fetch.php?media=wiki:logo.png text/html 2024-03-03T20:25:58+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://glengarryhistoricalsociety.com/dokusoft/!add/doku.php?id=archibald_king_macgillivray&rev=1709497558&do=diff Archibald McGillivray History of the McGillivrays at Spring Creek Submitted by Anne MacGillivray, UEL Source: “Our Kindred Spirits” by George Duncan Military Cross (MC), UEL, with notes by Myrtle (McGillivray) Stanger, UEL. The history was awarded the 1996 Family Genealogy Prize by the Ottawa branch of the Ontario Genealogical Society text/html 2024-03-03T20:25:58+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://glengarryhistoricalsociety.com/dokusoft/!add/doku.php?id=archibald_king_macgillivray_big_alexander_mcleod&rev=1709497558&do=diff Untold Stories and Unsung Heroes by Maj. Geo. (Duff) Mitchell, MC,CD,UE, Ontario's Glengarry County is studded with 20 bronze plaques along its highways and byways which give us fascinating glimpses of its early history as well as its Highland and Loyalist pioneers who settled there from 1784. text/html 2024-03-03T20:25:58+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://glengarryhistoricalsociety.com/dokusoft/!add/doku.php?id=start&rev=1709497558&do=diff This a collection of additional biographies which do not appear in “The Dictionary of Glengarry Biography”, but nonetheless are notable historical figures. * Archibald 'King' MacGillivray * Archibald 'King' MacGillivray and 'Big' Alexander McLeod text/html 2024-03-03T20:25:58+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://glengarryhistoricalsociety.com/dokusoft/!add/doku.php?id=temp&rev=1709497558&do=diff Like its forerunner the Old 78th Fraser Highlanders, which fought so well at Louisbourg and Quebec under General Wolfe in 1759-1760, the 71st gained fame campaigning from Brooklyn, NY, to Savannah, Georgia, and back north until October 1781. Then, outnumbered three to one by 7,000 Frehch and 12,000 American troops near Yorktown, Virgjnia, the British forces under Lord Cornwallis capitulated and were interned in camps, albeit with their personal weapons for game hunting, These Highlanders suffer… text/html 2024-03-03T20:25:58+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://glengarryhistoricalsociety.com/dokusoft/!add/doku.php?id=temp1&rev=1709497558&do=diff up to Glengarry. The few more emigrants who set off a weeklater on he schooner John, received their Glengarry lots almost two months later. On arrival each family received a 200-acre lot certification, the first ones dated 24 June, 1794. They begin with the five key organizers in this sequence for Lochiel Norman(d) - Lot 27.7th Concession; Kenneth - L.19.7; his son Alexander - L18.6; 'Big' Alexander - L33.7 — all MacLeods; — and Archibald McGilvrie (sic) Lot 17,6. 'Big' Alex delayed settling on … text/html 2024-03-03T20:25:58+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://glengarryhistoricalsociety.com/dokusoft/!add/doku.php?id=temp2&rev=1709497558&do=diff Family ties Loyalists and their descendants from the MacLeod emigration have left their marks upon the Glengarry scene. Archie 'King' named a second son Donald in April 1799, so the first born on Mull had likely died by then, but sister Ann wed Duncan MacMillan(1782-1841) in January 1809 while wintering at her father's assigned Lochiel lot. Rev. John Bethune recorded this happy event, as he had also done for Archie and Catherine's baptisms, at St. Andrew's Church, in Williamstown. Duncan's ha… text/html 2024-03-03T20:25:58+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://glengarryhistoricalsociety.com/dokusoft/!add/doku.php?id=temp3&rev=1709497558&do=diff 'Big' Angus MacMillan and with her 10 children she, too, began a dynasty. The present log house is believed to have been built about 1830, but has long since been sheathed over, inside and out. This vintage homestead is still with the 'King' MacGillivray family and what tales it could tell! Direct descendant Anne MacGillivray still occupies it with her mother, née Ruth MacGillivray, who celebrated her 90th birthday October 2002 at the old Manse opposite Kirkhill United Church. With many MacGilli… text/html 2024-03-03T20:25:58+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://glengarryhistoricalsociety.com/dokusoft/!add/doku.php?id=temp4&rev=1709497558&do=diff MacLeod Settlement: In 1793 some forty families, including members of several clans, emigrated from Glenelg, Scotland, under the leadership of Alexander MacLeod and landed at St. John's Island (now PEI) The following year they came to Glengarry County and petitioned for land. In August, 1794 the majority were authorized to occupy 200 Acres each in the vicinity of Kirkhill, which was for many years known as Glenelg. Alexander MacLeod who was located on this property in 1794, was instrumental in f…