File: mcpheehugh06-oh-familyorigins_M.mp3
Speakers:
HM – Hughie McPhee
KP – Curator Ken Perlman
HM: I guess it started, probably started when Wolfe was in Quebec. In Wolfe's Army, they had a pipe regiment and my great, great uncle was a piper there with him. His nephew, Archie left Scotland and they were headin' down, it was in late fall, and he was headin' down to his uncle's place. His uncle had got land from the government. Instead of shippin' them all back to Scotland again, any that wanted to stay they gave them a grant of land. And that's in a county in Ontario they call Glengarry County: very appropriately named. Anyway, in the process of Archie comin' out here – It was late in the fall and the River was frozen goin down the St. Lawrence. And they got into ice with the sail boat, and you imagine what that would be like. But they did get turned around and they headed back, and they got into Charlottetown. And my great grandfather, he said that he'd never put his foot in a boat again. And he didn't, he stayed here. That cooked him of sailing. So that's how that started.
KP: So was it that he was en route to Ontario?
HM: He was really en route to Ontario
KP: And landed here first?
HM: He made land here so he stayed here. So he got a grant of land here, and he didn't like the situation and he went back and got another grant. And that's it, we're sittin' on here now!
KP: Right here in Bayfield.
HM: Right here in Bayfield. And he married a girl from over in Degroves Marsh, a MacLean And they settled – They came over here, and they settled in a little log cabin here, built a house. Part of it is the main body behind us here. And they raised a family, they're scattered all over: relatives And I'm here.