MySource:Trentf/Annie Come Home

This is a manuscript from one of the descendants of Annie May Buchanan. It is a detailed account of her life, and is broken into three parts. I only have the first part (174 pages!) which covers her early life on Prince Edward Island. Presumably the next parts will cover her travels, and the third will cover her settling down in Scotland.

Here are a couple of key passages:

Annie May Buchanan was born on Prince Edward Island during the latter years of Queen Victoria’s reign. This is the first of a trilogy of books which tells of the early years of her life on the Island. It is based on the real life stories she told myself and my sister Jane and our cousins Sheila and Alistair, who were her four eldest grandchildren. She was living in Scaleridge, a small traditional cottage on the outskirts of the remote and isolated village of Waterbeck in Southern Scotland.
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The family that Annie had left behind on Prince Edward Island were Scottish through and through. Even though her father Donald had been born on Prince Edward Island and her mother Flora had been born on the Isle of Skye they both carried on with the traditions and way of life their forbears had endured and left behind in Scotland.
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Annie thought of her Scottish ancestors who had migrated from the Isle of Skye in the early eighteen hundreds.
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When Donald’s grandfather first arrived on Prince Edward Island after enduring a particularly difficult storm ridden voyage from Scotland, he was given fifty acres of land by the government on a tract of forest that was later to become the village of O’Leary. The land was covered by coniferous forest and had to be cleared of the trees and undergrowth before it could be farmed.
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her mother’s sister. Aunt Pheme had married a few years ago and had moved from Prince Edward Island and now lived in British Columbia.