Letter to the Editor of the Eastern Chronicle from John McRae of "Sunny Summit," Toney River, Pictou County with a corrected and original poem (actually, a song), To the Pioneer Settlers of West River, written by his father, Alexander McRae, circa 1819.

Photograph of Alexander McRae from Dingwall, Ross Shire, Scotland who emigrated to Nova Scotia before 1818 and settled at West River in an area that later became named Watervale. The McRae family moved to Toney River circa 1855.

Crown Land Grant documents and maps as found recorded in the Crown Land Grant, Book P, Page 74, Recorded 1832 The survey maps are from what is called, "Old Plan 1854."

Crown Land Grant map #87 showing the 50 acre land plot at Watervale granted to Alexander McRae and recorded in 1832.

Tintype photograph of Simon Roderick Fraser, seated, with an unidentified young man. the photograph was probably taken around the year 1880 when Simon was 20 years old. It was also around the time his father, James Fraser, passed.

Photos of the old mills on the Toney River at Toney Mills, Pictou County circa 1930. A gristmill and sawmill were built by Alexander McRae circa 1855. His sons, John and Roderick McRae, operated the mills until the early to mid-1880s.

Family of William McDonald and Nancy Witney Sylvester McDonald of Durham, Pictou County, Nova Scotia, about 1898.

Family of William McDonald and Nancy Witney Sylvester McDonald of Durham, Pictou County, Nova ScotiaDonald of Durham, 1921

Transcription of undated, unidentified, disjointed first page of a four page proof sheet from a printed article. Authored by "An Old Resident"