Canada Clan Maclennan Calling Greetings to all Clan members from Phil and Marian Me­ ClelJand of New Westminster, British Columbia. who are just Newsletter completing a memorable visit to our Chief and his wife. We have also enjoyed journeying to the ancestral home of the NUMBER 6 JUNE 1976 MacLennan Clan, and surround­ ing glens. On returning to our homo. we intend to interest future Clan mem bers in joining our growing numbers . Our hope is to re­ unite old ties so that the Clan can go into the future with Chief's Message increased strength and purpose. Many tha·nks to Chief Ronald and his wife. Margaret, for Today I was wandering in woods on the shores of lovely Loch Maree and both the their kind hospitality and en­ couragement. beauty and tranquility refreshed me. Best wishes to you all and The silence was infrequently broken by the call of the cuckoo and the bleat of a God Bless. newly born lamb. Grassy banks were covered with yellow primroses and dog violets. , Philip and Marian McClelland, 11 S Glover Avenue, The trees of the forest were clothed in new leaves and at their feet masses of bluebells. New Westminster, British Columbia, Ferns and bracken were Canada. unfolding and the air was Rev. Murdo MacLennan's Mrs Lynn 19ou produces the p.s. - We would be pleased to fragrant and sweet after a sentiment "Martin Luther McLendon ~ McClendon quar­ welcome anyone visiting our shower of spring rain. How terly newsletter with American area" at any time. lucky we are, clan wise, to King had his vision, I have data from census's. wills, and mine, that the MacLennans family sources - well done Chiefs Note - The descend­ know that our forebears Lynn. ants of Duncan MacLennan, shall return to Kintail led who settled at Balnaclenan, nr. also lived among, and Many thanks to you aU and enjoyed, such gifts in this by pipe bands playing and Newton Stewart, Kirkcudbright. banners fiying." It requires do send that old picture. old South Scotland, gradually, land of mist, mountain and letter or family tree so that through misuse in speUing and torrent. G. S. MacLennan our efforts and our en­ we can copy and thereby pre­ pronunciation, became Mac­ composed the beautiful deavours. serve it for posterity. Contribu­ Lellan and MacLeliand. Clell­ tions to this newsletter would and and Klelland were name tune Loch Maree and Margaret joins me in thank.· also be most welcome. in·s you all for the innumerable variants of the name, the recently I received the lovely cards and greetings Recently we were pleased to former being hereditary for­ following lines from Grace received during the festive meet Stewart, son of Donald esters to the Earls of Douglas. MacLennan, Dingwall. season. Our family has now Ventry MacLennan. President of The arms of the Clellands as grown to such a tremendous the Grafton branch, Australia, recorded in Lanark, 1498, were: "Lost land of eternal youth size that it is quite beyond our Lynne MacLellan of Perth, Az .. a hare saliant argo with a Strange soul shaking mystery capabilities to write to every­ Australia, and Philip and hunting horn vert. hanging from Smell the sharp smell of peat one - I'm sure you will all Mairon McClelland of B,C., the neck, garnished gu, Soft footsteps of Spring understand, and we do love Canada·. Also Miss Marjory Crest - A falcon standing on a rusUing hearing from you all - many. McLennan, Young, Australia, sinister hand glove ppr. Over heatherly braes many. thanks. and Mrs Jean Logan. ·Captain Mottoes - Non Sibi Five Sisters of Kintail D. R. and Jean MacLennan, J e pense a qui pense Nestling their beads softly in Contributions towards our North Berwick, were in good plus. pillows of cloud history and records trickle in spirits, and we received word Pale and serene from a' airts. Rosemary Mc ~ from St Catherine's Home, N.B. - American Air Force, Mam Rattachan deep blue in Lennan, Victoria. Australia, un­ Colonel McClelland, is Presi­ hollow of Glen Shiel covered invaluable old pictures continued on page 4 dent Ford's No. I jet pilot. Five sisters like blue robed which we had copied, and nuns." Eileen" Ottawa. and Marga-ret Hon. Piper, W. M. Mc­ Harvey. continue their grand Lennan, Canberra, com­ work. posed the haunting salute Philip McClelland of British FLOWERI OF THE FOREST Columbia, met my request for "MacLennan's Return to a picture of Mt. Logan by We regret to announce the passing of - Kintail" (as the Brahan applying to the Surveying and ALEXAND£R MACLENNAN, M.M., Inv.rn.... Mappi ng Department. Ottawa Seer foretold), and the Mrs MAUD MACLENNAN, Inv.r ...... thought comes to mind, - result - a picture from 30,000 feetl MARY MACLENNAN, mother of Ian, Glacton. 'why did we ever leave JOHN A. MACUNNAN, Hon. Member, Inverness Hospital. our wonderful inheritance?' John D. MacLennan. lllinois, researches deeply and is render­ DAVID MACLENNAN, uncle of Mona, our assistant Yes, after a few hundred ing invaluable assistance to­ SKretary. years holiday, I share our wards the compilation of our Hon. Vice-President, the history. MACLENNAN'S SANCTUARY More than 1,300 years ago,., -t J ht 'r I S th A# · St Cuimine, a disciple and nODI reuac ,. ranlVaa, OU ,rICa biographer of 5t Columba, brought the Word of God to lovely Glenelg and built the by D. M. MACLENNAN first cill or church there at the sea end of the glen over­ short history of Glenelg and, This cross is made from stones The aanctuary is built of looking the narrow strait to the in a chapter WIder the heading collected from in and around stone a-nd materials made on the farm. The walls are rough Isle of Skye. of "Church and Clergy", dealt Crotach MacGilligorm's church in detail with the brief outline in Glenelg. The cross is flanked cast Vieux Rose on the outside Some 600 years later in the given above. by two narrow Gothic windows and broken white inside. The thirteenth century Crotach Mac­ On his return to South Africa with leaded glass panes and roof is strongly timbered and Donald Maclennan proceeded the arch panes have the clan thatched with local grass. Slate Gilligorm. the posthumous son badge of Conasg (Furze) painted from a quarry near Sterkfon­ of Gilligorm the powerful with added interest to complete the building of a small on them. Underneath tbe cross tein, reputed to be 500 million warrior chief of the Clan Mac­ sanctuary or church started is an inscription which reads - years old, is laid on the floor. Lennan, rebuilt this church OD The seating consists of pews many years before on his farm hThis celtic cross is made from the old St George's Pres­ the same groWld consecrated in the Transvaal. with stones from a church byterian Church, Noord Street, by St Cuimine. Gilligorm was The foundations of the originally erected by St Cuim­ Johannesburg, demolished somc slain and his clan practically. sanctuary are laid on a piece ine, a disciple of St Columba, years ago, and there is also a of living rock {'unDiDg east to at Glenelg, Inverness-shire, decimated by the Frasers in 8 ' very solid refectory table of west at the foot of a gentle Scotland, in the seventh century. three-inch thick Oregon pine. battle on Denim Nan Deui rising slope of ground backed The church was rebuilt by In small alcoves on either side Moor near Kessock Ferry in by pine trees and arc made Crotach MacGilligorm of the of the door on the inside arc the Black Isle. His wife who_ with large dolerite boulders clan MacLennan, on the same two Anglo-Boer War croases, found on the farm. The consecrated ground in the 13th one of an unknown British was wi th child was taken structure is humble and simple, century. The cross includes soldier and the other of a prisoner. In due course the rectangular in shape, with the stones from Beauly Priory Gordon Highlander. Clan sym­ child, a SOD, was born. It was circular chancel end facing where he was educated, one bols also grace the rounded from the Island of Iona. and the intention of the Frasers to east. A feature of the chancel tops of the main leaded light is a small celtic cross about one from the battlefield of windows, The entrance to the kill a male child, but they de­ three foot high set in the waU, Culloden," wood ra·iled enclosure is cided to break its back to pre­ through a thatched Iych gate vent it growing up a powerful which leads to a short flight warrior like its father. The, of grey granite steps to the boy was brought up by the All too soon Elsie Bertha MacLennan died after a short porch of the sanctuary which IS thatched and supported by Frasers and educated at Beauly' illness on the 7th 'May, and her husband, Donald Morrison thick gum tree trunks, Priory, where he took Holy MacLennan, in Johannesburg on the 29th November. The view to the west from Orders in the Celtic Church, Donald Morrison MacLennan was born in Kintail in the the porch is down a small Most Maclennans are aware North of Scotland, and rcceived his early education 'in Foyers, wooded valley across farm and at the Fort Augustus Priory. Throughout his life he lands to the horizon some five of this interesting part of clan miles away on which is etched history if only from the writ­ retained a deep interest in, and love of, his homeland, its in dark colour the distinctive ings of Frank Adam revised people, their history and their culture, and in particular, saddleback feature of Swart by Sir Thomas Innes of Lear­ their music.