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Elroy Dunn “Red Dunn” MacCallum
7 Nov 1945–18 Jun 2008
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Elroy Dunn ‘Red Dunn’ MacCallum was born in Pictou in 1945, the son of Arthur Roy and Catherine (MacDonald) MacCallum, and lived much of his life on Pictou Island. His obituary traces a varied working life through food-processing and scallop work, employment with the Nova Scotia Department of Transportation on Pictou Island, and then self-employment from 1976 as a lobster fisherman off the Island’s East End. He also learned carpentry from his father and became an accomplished woodworker. Ruth Munro’s 1984 store history identifies Dunn MacCallum, son of Roy, as the store’s then-current owner. That store role remains attributed rather than a proved title chain, but combined with his fishing, transportation and woodworking it makes Dunn an unusually well-rounded record of later twentieth-century Island working life.
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- 2008 obituary; Ruth Munro store history; PIHS Stores register; 1984 fishing-licence control
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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 Elroy Dunn “Red Dunn” MacCallum · 5 generations · 4 of 154 people
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- Arthur Roy MacCallum ↔ spouse of Catherine A. MacDonald 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
- Elroy Dunn “Red Dunn” MacCallum ↔ sibling of Muriel Rosabelle MacCallum