Canna

By John Lorne Campbell

Canna
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Title -- Copyright -- Canna -- Contents -- List of colour illustrations -- List of maps -- Foreword -- Preface -- The Archaeology of Canna and Sanday -- 1 St Columba and Canna -- 2 The Coming of the Norsemen -- 3 Canna and Iona -- 4 Canna and the Lordship of the Isles -- 5 After the Downfall of the Lordship -- 6 The Isles and the Statutes of Iona -- 7 The Coming of the Irish Franciscans -- 8 The Argyll Superiority and the Civil Wars -- 9 'Black Donald of the Cuckoo' and Canna -- 10 Canna and the SPCK in Scotland -- 11 Canna, 'Mac Mhaighstir Alasdair', and the Forty-five -- 12 The Coming of the Early Scientists -- 13 Canna and the British Fisheries Society -- 14 The Coming of the MacNeills -- 15 Donald MacNeill I and the Gaelic Schools -- 16 The MacNeills Become Landowners -- 17 Donald MacNeill II and the Clearing of Canna -- 18 Canna in Modern Times -- 19 Transport and Communications -- Epilogue -- Appendices -- I Some Early Accounts of Canna -- II The MacDonalds of Clanranald, and the MacDonalds of Boisdale -- III Charters, Rentals, and Leases -- IV Early Canna Emigrants to Nova Scotia -- V Post-Reformation Catholic Clergy -- VI Church of Scotland Ministers -- VII Population Statistics -- VIII The Norse Heritage of Canna by Alf Sommerfelt (translated by Professor Angus McIntosh) -- IX Canna Place-names, by J.L. Campbell -- X Some Local Traditions -- XI Wild Animals and Fish of Canna -- XII Birds of Canna by Robert L. Swann -- XIII Butterflies and Moths of Canna, by J.L. Campbell -- XIV Native Trees of Canna -- XV Wild Flowers of Canna by Michael Braithwaite -- XVI Geology: Cliff Section, Langanes, Canna by D.R.M. Pattison -- XVII The Visits of Edward Ellice of Invergarry and Richard Doyle to Canna -- XVIII The Canna Evictions: 1849, not 1851 -- XIX Neil McNeill's Canna Census, 1764-65 -- Glossary -- A Modern Bibliography -- Index -- Plates 1

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