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Clan MacKenzie Society in the Americas Cabar Feidh The Canadian Chapter Magazine December 2007 ISSN 1207-7232 In This Issue: forward to being with him next year at the World’s as New Members . .2 it will be my first trip to Scotland. I am the fourth gen- Castle Leod Project . 2 eration McKenzie in Canada. My great-great-grandfa- DNA Conference Report . 2 - 4 ther, John McKenzie, emigrated to Nova Scotia in the Obituary - Rev. Alexander A. Mackenzie . 4 late 17th century. Clan Dinner - British Columbia . 4 - 5 & 9 Richard K. McKenzie, Brantford, Ontario Three Mackenzie Sisters . 5 - 7 Clan Dinner, Mississauga, Ontario. 7 - 8 & 12 I am sending along a few photos I took at the Significant Scots - Colin MacKenzie . .8 Seaforth Armouries in Vancouver [The BC Clan Inaugural Jill McKenzie Lecture . 10 & 11 Dinner]. What a great evening it was! Ken and I Items for Sale . 13 enjoyed ourselves immensely. It was wonderful to be AMacKenzie Immigrant to Quebec, 1833 . 14 able to see inside the Armoury. It was a beautiful set- Clan Mackenzie Society in Germany . .15 ting for our get-together. Thanks you for venturing so Obituary - Malcolm Mackenzie . .15 far west to meet us here on the beautiful west coast, President’s Report 2006-2007 . 15-16 sometimes known as the “wet coast”! AGM Minutes . 16-17 Marlene MacKenzie, Delta, BC The “Homecoming” 2009 . 17-18 Financial Statements . .19-20 I just finished reading your book History of the MacKenzies and enjoyed it greatly. The book is quite concise and sorts out a tangled history. I could not see how my family fits in the grand scheme of things, but being of Viking background probably explains a lot. Sandy Mackenzie, Georgetown ON. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR [Ed: Thanks for this welcome endorsement for my This past summer my son Ben had the privilege of book. I privately published 100 copies and half of these attending the World’s [Pipe Band Competitions] in are now sold. Cost is $40 plus postage. The Viking Glasgow. His band, Paris/Port Dover Pipe Band placed comment from Sandy relates to the DNA project which 4th in the grade 4 level. Although he didn’t play he puts him and about 10% of our members with that pos- went along for the experience and is looking forward to sible heritage!] play next year in the Grade 5 pipe band. Ben enjoys playing his pipes at our family gatherings at which he has been playing for about three years. I am looking Cabar Feidh Newsletter: Members who wish to write to the Society with contributions to the Newsletter please send submissions to The Editor, Clan MacKenzie Society, 580 Rebecca St., Oakville, ON L6K 3N9. or e-mail to [email protected] Clan Web Pages: www.clanmackenzie.com & www.electricscotland.com/mackenzie Page 2 NEW MEMBERS me for years). e welcome the following new members who This is not a substitute for major stone work - ie Whave joined recently: replacing the entire chimney heads and rebuilding the battlements (£800,000) but is much more than a stick- Mrs Sally Allen, ing plaster on the Titanic and should improve weather 3416 Wilder Road, resistance and prevent further destructive vegetation Bay City, Michigan 48706 ~(trees, moss, ferns, etc etc); each of these types of growth have left root ball holes and have gradually Hamish B. MacKenzie Cleave, prized off stone and mortar over the years. The Castle 21795 Howison Ave., will also look much smarter! The workers are taking Maple Ridge, BC V2X 2W7 photos of 'before and after' so I hope I will be able to show you some of these in due course. Joseph L. MacKenzie Cleave, “On a more domestic in-house scale I am hoping to 21795 Howison Ave., get window sills replaced, repainting of accessible Maple Ridge, BC V2X 2W7 windows and generally doing as much as possible to make the Old Wing wind and water tight within our Garth R. Mackenzie, means. Darmac Agencies, “The stonework costs are £500 per day and we 6849 Burford Street, anticipate 7 days work in total. When you consider that Burnaby, BC V5E 1R9 to get a scaffold in place (approx £30K) then the £3,000 to £4,000 the Clan Mackenzie Charitable Trust Mel & Dorothy McKenzie, are needing to spend is a drop in the ocean. #1213 - 200 Community Way, “If any of your Members feel moved to help with Okotoks, AB T1S 1L4 this work then obviously that is going to be helpful. At the moment I anticipate that seven days will be suffi- Lt. Col. Rob Roy MacKenzie C.D., cient but if more then I will let you know in due course. & Marnie MacKenzie, Perhaps a possible way of helping possible donations 5636 10th Avenue, would be for folk to donate towards single days - each Delta, BC V4L 1C1 day being £500 - I will however accept what you think is possible.” Margot W. Popplewell, We have seen a number of donations from members Box 625, when renewing memberships and some of these have Fort Langley, BC V1M 2R9 been extremely generous. However, many of these donations do not specify whether the funds are for gen- eral clan use or for the Castle Leod Project. Such CASTLE LEOD PROJECT specifics are very helpful to us. Donations to the Castle he following is an extract from a letter from the Leod Project are approved and we are able to give a tax earl of Cromartie. We asked him to give us a short T receipt for such donations. These should be sent to comment on the Castle Leod Project and what was Clan MacKenzie Society, 580 Rebecca Street, needed immediately. As can be seen it remains a con- Oakville, Ontario L6K 3N9. stant question of getting a lot of urgent and minor repairs done at all times. Here is what he says: “At this very moment I have a Cherry Picker with FOURTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON GENETIC a platform that is removing all the Old Wing vegeta- GENEALOGY FOR FAMILY TREE DNA GROUP tion, repointing all the loose stonework on the battle- ADMINISTRATORS - HOUSTON, TEXAS ments, replacing any loose slates and generally doing OCTOBER 20-21, 2007 basic maintenance on the upper levels that would nor- mally require extensive scaffolding. I am also using a he field of "Genetic Genealogy" is advancing local architect (Douglas Murray - who has worked for Trapidly; It is the intersection of genealogy and Page 3 anthropology. Genealogists are Chesapeake Bay. In fact, they have to walk miles uphill and interested in Short Tandem Repeats ended up in what we now know as downhill in remote areas such as (STRs), and anthropologists are the Cape Hatteras area of North Peru to talk with prospective partic- interested in single nucleotide poly- Carolina. There is a monument to ipants, but also they are required to morphisms (SNPs). STRs are Virginia Dare, the first white child return in order to provide them with repeats in the DNA chain while born in the colony in 1587. When information about the results! SNPs are specific changes in the war broke out, the British military Incidentally, the same stringent DNA pairs. For more information, embargoed all ships for military guidelines are required in the please, note the web sites on the use; and, by the time civilian ships United States between Family Tree attached list. were able to return to the area, there DNA and the University of Arizona was no sign of the colonists but where our tests are conducted. This year’s conference focused there were markings on the trees Many participants from Family on issues of ethics and standards. (by prior agreement) to communi- Tree DNA have paid $15. to add With advances come newly-devel- cate their direction of travel and their results to the Genographic oping issues of privacy and confi- that they were in distress. Rumours Project, and many of those who dentiality. For example, if a partici- over the centuries have indicated tested with National Geographic pant dies, what steps must be taken that the white people were not all have added their results to our to contact the next-of-kin, and can killed by native Americans, and FTDNA database. The project web- an administrator go forward and there may be descendants remain- site is: upgrade the testing of markers ing. Therefore, Roberta is doing nationalgeographic.com/geno- when the next-of-kin cannot be DNA research into the subject. graphic. located? Maintaining ethical stan- dards is of paramount importance Dr. David Soria reported to us Dr. John M. Butler from the to Family Tree DNA. on the National Geographic National Institute of Standards and Society’s project, the Genographic Technology reported on the techni- By the end of November, partic- Project. It was begun April 13, cal standards required for doing ipants will find a new section called 2005 and is a five-year joint project DNA testing. For example, once a "My Maps" demonstrating the geo- between National Geographic and year or any time that equipment is graphical location of matches with IBM. Researchers are working with moved the equipment is recalibrat- colour-coding for number of match- Family Tree DNA and eleven other ed. es. In order for this to work, partic- research centres in the world to col- ipants are asked to update their per- lect 500,000 global DNA samples. Dr. Michael Hammer reported sonal pages with the latitude and To date, they have 225,000 samples on his research at the University of longitude of their maternal and from more than 130 countries.