William MacKenzie, Gairloch Mtn, Victoria County, 110 years old

Notebook used from 1860s-1870s for survey work throughout Pictou County by Ebenezer McLeod. Includes notes about jobs as well as maps.

Surnames beginning with R

Cora McRae born 5 December 1868 to John McRae and Mary (Robertson)(Robson)McRae of Toney River, Pictou County, Nova Scotia.

Rare photograph of turn-of-the-century logging men near Aberdeen, Washington circa 1900. Alexander Fraser was the logging foreman for Dan Gillies.

Ethel Irene Drummond of Teulon, Manitoba, the great-granddaughter of Alexander McRae, wrote two letters to the editor of the Pictou Advocate that were published together on August 1, 1973.

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.

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.

Roderick and Catherine Anne (McQuarrie) McRae of Roscanville, Saskatchewan and formerly of Toney River. Roderick is the son of Alexander and Isabella McRae of Toney River. Catherine is the daughter of Donald and Catherine McQuarrie of Toney River.

Christy (McRae) MacMillan is the youngest of ten children born to Alexander and Isabella McRae of Toney River. She died in 1944 at Winnipeg at the age of 102. She never remarried after the loss of her husband William MacMillan in December 1915.

Isabella Fraser was residing in Providence RI in Febraury 1893 at the time of he mother's passing. She must have decided to return to Toney River because she purchased a parcel of land from her siblings as part of the settlement of her mother's estate.

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.