John H McKay Album 

Various newspaper clippings including an article dated 11 December 1883, Grand Temperance Meeting at Plainfield and from The Morning Herald, 11 July 1885 regarding John H McKay's appointment as collector of inland revenue for Pictou. 

This page includes a disturbing article titled "The Missing Link" describing the abduction of a family from Laos, Southeast Asia. 

John H McKay was born in Plainfield, Pictou County to John and Barbara McLean McKay.  He was the principal of River John schools and the Collector of Inland Revenue, Pictou.  He married Bessie McLeod of River John.  John H McKay was killed in the line of duty in Port Hood, Inverness County, 1890.