Date: 2015-02-18
Name(s): Buchanan, John
Description: John Buchanan Feb. 18 2015 Born: John Buchanan, on May 26, 1939, in the family home in Shettleston, Glasgow. Only child, oldest grandchild on both sides. They lived in a tenement building with no hot water. Father: Born in Bridgton, Glasgow in March 1915. Worked manual labour. A large steel company in his area had relocated to a town called Corby, England and he relocated there for work around age 17 or 18. It was called "little Scotland" due to the number of Scots who moved there. He worked…
Date: 2015-04-21, 2015-05-01
Name(s): Fraser, John
Description: John Allen Fraser April 21, 2015, Second interview date unknown, May 1, 2015 Born Dec. 15, 1931, in Yokohama, Japan, moved to Canada at age 3. Baptised by an Anglican priest in Japan. Brother born in Canada in 1935. Interview begins abruptly, in the middle of a sentence. John describes speaking at a gathering of the Fraser clan. He describes Simon Fraser's history in B.C. – he doesn't think he is related, as his family is Presbyterian, and Simon Fraser was Roman Catholic. He wore his Seaforth…
Date: 2005-03-10
Name(s): McIlwraith, John
Description: March 10 2005 John McIlwraith (b. Sept. 4, 1926 in Glasgow) was one of four children. Father: William Mason Peyton McIlwraith (b. in Connel Ferry, Scotland (near Oban)), had three brothers and three sisters. He met John's mother after returning from service in the First World War. William was an engineer for Singer as well as an amateur musician (banjo, guitar, piano, choir conductor) and baker. He would compose and transpose music for choirs. During the Depression, he was forced to take on a…
Date: 2012-01-11
Name(s): Anderson, Laurie, 1947-
Description: Jan 11 2012 Laurie Hamilton Anderson (b.1947 in Glasgow) is the youngest of five children (three sisters and one brother). His father, David Vernon Anderson (b.1910/1911 (approx.) in Glasgow), was one of eight children. Although never in active service, David was in the army in the Second World War (his brother died in service). An employee of Scottish Legal Life Assurance Company, he also served as the superintendent of the first non-sectarian youth club in inner city Glasgow. He spent his…
Date: 2004-03-30
Name(s): Ross, Lew
Date: 2005-02-16
Name(s): MacLean, Majorie
Description: 16 Feburary 2005 Marjorie Eleanor MacLean (North Vancouver, March 2, 1953). Marjorie is the second child of five children: Barbara, herself, Janet, Norman, Alexandra. She was the first person in her family to go to university in Canada, sixty years after the family had emigrated from Scotland. She played the chanter when she was a little girl, but her father didn't let her play the pipes because he thought women didn't have enough air in their lungs.... She went to three elementary schools:…
Date: 2004-03-19, 2004-08-13
Name(s): Macaree, Mary
Date: 2005-03-15
Name(s): Morrison, Mary
Description: 2005 Mary Morison (South Vancouver, April 10, 1921). Mary married Allister James Morison from Aberdeen, Scotland, in 1959/60, although he died not long after they were married. He moved to Canada in 1910, his father was a shoemaker on Commercial Drive and he worked for various drug companies. They met each other at the Loch Nagar Clansmen Social Group, Sons of Scotland, of which she was a camp Chief for one year. She used to teach Gaelic songs at this camp. Mary worked at Eatons for 15 years.…
Date: 2004-11-04
Name(s): MacIvor, Murdo
Date: 2012-02-10
Name(s): Askew, Peggy
Description: February 10 2012 Margaret (Peggy) Maryanne Askew (née Gillies, b. 1943 in Sidney, NS) is the only child of Donald John Jones Gillies (b. 1901 on St. Kilda) and Lillian Gilmore (b. 1911 in Turriff, Scotland). As the youngest of five boys, Peggy's father grew up on the island of St. Kilda, collecting eggs and birds on the island's cliffs, one of the many jobs necessary to stay alive. The soldiers stationed on the island during the First World War intrigued many of the young people with stories of…
Date: 2012-11-06, 2012-11-13
Name(s): Maxwell, Reid
Description: Reid Maxwell November 6 2012, November 13 2012 Born: John Reid Thompson Maxwell. Born Jan 29 1961, raised in hospital in Concordie, family home in Bowhill, Cardenden. First grandchild, oldest of 2 sisters (one living in Fife, another in England), recently learned of a half-sister came from his father's time in South Africa. John Reid after his grandfather, who he knew quite well and considered his best friend. Thomas Maxwell was his paternal grandmother's first husband who died. He stayed with…
Date: 2004-03-15, 2004-03-25, 2004-04-14
Name(s): MacLeod, Ron
Description: March 15, 25 2004 (the voice volume/clarity is quite bad in the March 25 interview, one of the tapes at the end is distorted) John Ronald MacLeod (May 22 1924, Victoria). His brother, Ian, who worked at UBC, went out fishing in 1955 and never returned. He was married with two children. He was also a piper. His Gaelic name, which isn't spelled out, means "fair-haired little Ronald". He understands a little Gaelic, his uncle used to take Sunday school in Gaelic, and he says he could "understand…
Date: 2012-05-11
Name(s): Reid, Ronald
Description: May 11 2012 Ronald Dunlop Reid (b. 1931 in Victoria, BC) is the only child of Kenneth Dunlop Reid (b. 1901) and Margaret Harriet Cullum (b. 1899 in Victoria, BC). His father was the eldest of two boys and his mother had one sister. They married in 1926, his mother stayed home with the children while his father worked for the Victoria street lighting department (prior to this job he had studied electrical engineering at McGill, worked in Ontario, for BC Electric in Vancouver, and for Cominco in…
Date: 2005-07-25
Name(s): Scott, Simon
Date: 2004-11-30, 2005-01-18
Name(s): Burnie, Strachan
Description: 30 Novemember 2004 (recording is corrupt and inaudible in parts) John MacGowan Key Strachan Burnie (Glasgow, 12 March 1937) (being the boy, he was given all the family names – a tradition in his father's house). He has two sisters, Lindsey and *inaudible*. He went to Allan Glen's School in Glasgow (Dirk Bogarde and Charles Rennie Mackintosh are ex-pupils). He left school when he was 16 and joined the Inland Revenue before having to complete his National Service at 18, he joined the Scots Guards…
