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.