Acknowledgements

Thanks to

My wife, Hesta MacDonald, for the support she has given me in completing this project and for the editing she has done

My daughter, Rebecca Matheson, for the many hours she spent typing

My daughter, Alice Gallant, for helping with layout

My nephew, Ronald Livingstone, for the many photographs he took

and TWiG Publications for typesetting

Note: The spelling of names was not standardized during this era. It was common to find members of a fam— ily with surnames spelled differently from one an— other. A case in point were the brothers, Sibbauld MacNeil and Colin Hector MacNeill. Stewart’s fa- ther, too, spelled his name in a variety of ways, e.g., MacDonald or McDonald.