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Arthur Roy MacCallum
1906–1991
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Arthur Roy MacCallum was born on Pictou Island in 1906 and appears in the 1931 census as Roy MacCallum in the Charles C. MacCallum household. He married Catherine MacDonald, and their family remained part of the Island’s twentieth-century community. Local-history sources connect Roy with carpentry, boatbuilding, lobster-factory work and the Island telephone system—work that reflects how Islanders often combined several practical skills and occupations rather than following a single trade. Roy was also one of the Islanders whose knowledge helped Ruth Munro preserve the Island’s history. His recollections and map work contributed details about transportation, industry, places and everyday life that might otherwise have been lost. Roy and Catherine are commemorated together in the Church Cemetery at memorial C-012.
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195 enumerated residents in 37 original census family units. These are source households, not inferred genealogical branches or street addresses. Cancelled entries are excluded; source spellings and recorded ages are retained.
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Daniel MacCallum & Susanna Robertson MacCallum
Selected person’s details ↑Family around Arthur Roy MacCallum · 5 generations · 9 of 154 people
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Daniel Kenzie McCallum
Daniel Kenzie McCallum
A FamilySearch family tree names Daniel Kenzie McCallum among the children of Charles Martin Creighton McCallum and Christie Ann MacDonald, alongside Howard, Arthur Roy and Duncan W. McCallum. The original marriage registration of 3 July 1943 at New Glasgow records Daniel Kenzie MacCallum as a thirty-nine-year-old bachelor and fisherman, born and residing on Pictou Island, with parents Charles MacCallum and Christy Ann MacDonald. His bride is recorded as Hughena Mae MacDonald, a forty-eight-year-old widow, also Island-born and resident. Her connection to the Hughena who married John William in 1907 remains qualified because the recorded ages differ. The fuller paternal name is retained as family-tree evidence.
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- Daniel Kenzie MacCallum and Hughena Mae MacDonald, original marriage registration, 1943 ↗
Duncan W. McCallum
Duncan W. McCallum
Duncan W. McCallum is preserved among the children of Charles Martin Creighton McCallum and Christie Ann MacDonald in the family-created genealogy. His 25 April 1939 marriage at St Andrew’s manse, Pictou, records him as Duncan Willie MacCallum, a thirty-one-year-old fisherman born and resident on Pictou Island. It names father Charles MacCallum and mother Christie Ann MacDonald, corroborating that existing parental household. His bride Annie Jane Ferguson, twenty, was resident on the Island and born at White Sands, Prince Edward Island, with father Arthur Ferguson and mother Minnie Catherine MacCallum. Arthur and Minnie’s 17 December 1913 marriage separately names Minnie’s parents Hugh and Flora. These are source-supported ordinary family comparisons; no exact birth date, death date or new spouse identity is inferred from the marriage alone.
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- Arthur Roy MacCallum ↔ spouse of Catherine A. MacDonald MacCallum
- Charles Creighton MacCallum ↔ spouse of Christy Ann MacDonald MacCallum
- Charles Creighton MacCallum → parent of Arthur Roy MacCallum
- Christy Ann MacDonald MacCallum → parent of Arthur Roy MacCallum
- Arthur Roy MacCallum → parent of Muriel Rosabelle MacCallum
- Catherine A. MacDonald MacCallum → parent of Muriel Rosabelle MacCallum
- Arthur Roy MacCallum → parent of Elroy Dunn “Red Dunn” MacCallum · Obituary and PIHS family history
- Catherine A. MacDonald MacCallum → parent of Elroy Dunn “Red Dunn” MacCallum · Obituary and PIHS family history
- Charles Creighton MacCallum → parent of Howard E. MacCallum
- Christy Ann MacDonald MacCallum → parent of Howard E. MacCallum
- Charles Creighton MacCallum → parent of Daniel Kenzie McCallum
- Christy Ann MacDonald MacCallum → parent of Daniel Kenzie McCallum
- Charles Creighton MacCallum → parent of Duncan W. McCallum
- Christy Ann MacDonald MacCallum → parent of Duncan W. McCallum
- Elroy Dunn “Red Dunn” MacCallum ↔ sibling of Muriel Rosabelle MacCallum
- Arthur Roy MacCallum ↔ sibling of Howard E. MacCallum
- Arthur Roy MacCallum ↔ sibling of Daniel Kenzie McCallum
- Arthur Roy MacCallum ↔ sibling of Duncan W. McCallum
- Howard E. MacCallum ↔ sibling of Daniel Kenzie McCallum
- Howard E. MacCallum ↔ sibling of Duncan W. McCallum
- Daniel Kenzie McCallum ↔ sibling of Duncan W. McCallum