Books you will find on this page …
- From Heather to Hill
- [From Heather to Hill – accolades]
- The Stewarts from Glen Lyon Perthshire
- [The Stewarts from Glen Lyon Perthshire – update archive]
- Gardener’s Journal
- The Highland Clearances
- How the Scots Invented Canada
“From Heather to Hill”
Published in 1991 by Margaret Bennet-Alder, “Heather to Hill” is a family history and genealogy of the family and descendants of John “Jack of the Hill” Stewart and his wife Maria Kelsey.
(Maria Kelsey is the great grand daughter of Captain Samuel Pettingell who was killed at the Battle of Oriskany, Oneida county, New York in 1777 during the American Revolutionary War. See the Pettingill Roots Tour in the “We Remember” section in the “Our History” page and also in the “Galleries” page)
300 copies* were made, and although no longer in print, most of those copies remain with family members.
There is a copy in the Parkhill Public Library and a copy in the Ailsa Craig Public Library. There are two copies available for sale in the Donald Hughes Annex Museum in Ailsa Craig.
* a few copies are still available, contact Carole Anderson by email at caroleanderson@me.com for purchase details …
“From Heather to Hill” • Information and Reviews
“A number of genealogists have been kind enough over the years to send us copies of their completed research work. Your volume, without a doubt, is the the most impressive that I have ever seen.” — Perthshire Library, Perth & Kinross District, Scotland
Author Margaret Bennet-Alder shares her story about the book “From Heather to Hill” – in a video made by Bob McNaughton.
Information and Reviews
Overview
Canadian Book Review Annual
High Praise from Perthshire Librarian
Fan Letter from Anna Blouin
* Don (highlighted above) refers to Margaret’s brother, Don Stewart.
* Klondike (highlighted above) refers to Alexander Stewart, Jack of the Hill’s youngest. Jean refers to Klondike’s youngest. Klondike’s second wife, Aunt Ida was a sister to Mrs Gillies.
“The Stewarts from Glen Lyon, Perthshire – 2000″
“The White Book” was published in 2000 by Margaret Bennet-Alder, updating the first genealogy published by Della Stewart in 1959,
although no longer in print, many copies are with family members, it’s contents currently exist on the genealogy website MyHeritage.com, and is updated regularly by family members …
Updates to the “White book”
“Gardener’s Journal”
Originally published as “The Toronto & Golden Horseshoe Gardener’s Journal”, the name was changed for it’s 34th anniversary to the “Canada Gardener’s Journal”, re-imagining it for gardeners across Canada.
While seemingly not related to Margaret’s work with genealogy, this book is very much related to her family. You can find Margaret’s personal story about how the book was created, and how it relates to her family, on the book’s website – https://gardenjournals.ca/learn-how-it-began/
The book is available for purchase on their website – https://gardenjournals.ca/
other books of interest …
In the terrible aftermath of the moorland battle of Culloden, the Highlanders suffered at the hands of their own clan chiefs. Following his magnificent reconstruction of Culloden, John Prebble recounts how the Highlanders were deserted and then betrayed into famine and poverty. While their chiefs grew rich on meat and wool, the people died of cholera and starvation or, evicted from the glens to make way for sheep, were forced to emigrate to foreign lands. ‘Mr Prebble tells a terrible story excellently. There is little need to search further to explain so much of the sadness and emptiness of the northern Highlands today’. – The Times
- ISBN-10 : 0436386046
- ISBN-13 : 978-0436386046
Canadians of Scottish descent, who today total over 4.7 million, have never made up more than 16 per cent of Canada’s population. Yet they have supplied thirteen of twenty-two Canadian prime ministers, and have made proportionate contributions in exploration, education, banking, military service, railroading, invention and literature.
Award-winning author Ken McGoogan has written a vivid, sweeping narrative showcasing more than sixty Scots who have shaped Canada. They include fur traders Alexander Mackenzie and the “Scotch West-Indian” James Douglas, who established national boundaries; politicians John A. Macdonald and Nellie McClung, who created a system of government; and visionaries Tommy Douglas, James Houston, Doris Anderson and Marshall McLuhan, who turned Canada into a complex nation that celebrates diversity. McGoogan toasts Robbie Burns, recalls the first settlers to wade ashore at Pictou, Nova Scotia, and celebrates such hybrid figures as the Cherokee Scot John Norton and Cuthbert Grant, father of the Métis nation. In How the Scots Invented Canada, Ken McGoogan uncovers the Scottish history of a nation-building miracle.
- ISBN-10 : 1554682347
- ISBN-13 : 978-1554682348