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James Ward MacCallum
1884–1973
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James Ward MacCallum belonged to the Pictou Island MacCallum family remembered by Ruth Munro as the family of “Little Dan” and Susan MacCallum. In 1921 Ward, age thirty-seven, appears with Dollie MacCallum and children Ona, Andrew and Isabel. By 1931 Ward was forty-seven and recorded as a farmer operating a general farm on his own account. His household included his wife Dolina, children Ona, Andrew, Isabel and Carl, infant granddaughter Lois, and his brother Chester. The early-2000s Sutherland Cemetery survey records Ward’s memorial dates as 1884–1973.
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Daniel MacCallum & Susanna Robertson MacCallum
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- Chester R. MacCallum ↔ sibling of James Ward MacCallum
- James Ward MacCallum ↔ spouse of Dolina Maud MacLean MacCallum