MacIsaac, Old John (Eigg Mountain Settlement History)

 

Thus site is just north of the Main Road on the MacMillan Road.  Old John MacIsaac built at this site.  (Kenton Teasdale)  He left Eigg Mountain for Fairmont in 1860 or before (?).  Donald MacMillan bought it from him and moved up from across Power’s Brook leaving behind his son Alec who was the last to farm there.  (MacMillan may have bought the land, but the house attributed to him is at a different location nearby on the lot.)  Also, John MacIsaac’s 1928 grant is for the lot to the southeast of this one (#47).  There is ungranted (?) land between MacIsaac’s lot (#47) and Archie MacLellan’s (#369) which MacIsaac may have taken for his own.

 

The house at this site is 26 ft by 22 ft with the long side facing northwest at 312º.  It has a cellar of 22 by 22 ft tight to the northeast wall.  This leaves a very narrow space between what appears to be the flue on the southwest cellar wall and the southwest outer wall.  There my have been a 10 by 12 ft addition on the north of the northwest wall.  The cellar entrance appears to have been at the south end of the southeast wall.

 

Cellar looking north.

 

Reference List

 

Rankin, Duncan Joseph. A History of the County of Antigonish, Nova Scotia. Toronto: Macmillan Co. of Canada, 1929.