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Willena “Lena Bill” MacCallum was the daughter of Hugh “Little Hughie” MacCallum and Flora MacCallum. Census evidence follows her from the MacCallum household in 1921 into her married life with William C. “Bill Cole” MacDonald in 1931. Their children included Cameron, Janet and Lorraine. Through William’s East Lighthouse service, Willena’s family became part of the working lighthouse community as well as the wider MacCallum family network. Later church remembrance preserved the couple’s connection to the Island. Willena and William are commemorated together in the Church Cemetery at C-006. Their marriage registration records a wedding at First Church manse in Pictou on 27 July 1922. William Creighton McDonald, twenty-six, was an Island-born and resident fisherman, with father Hector McDonald and mother Janet McCallum. Willena Belle McCallum, nineteen, was an Island-born and resident housekeeper, with father Hugh McCallum and mother Flora McSwain. The marriage supplies these parental names directly; it does not itself establish exact birth dates or additional military service.

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Church · Church Cemetery · C-006

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Pictou Island Biographical association; consult sources for dates and extent.
East Lighthouse Biographical association; consult sources for dates and extent.
Church Cemetery Biographical association; consult sources for dates and extent.

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Delina / Dolina / Dollie McCallum Hooper

Dolina McCallum, also recorded as Delina or Dollie, married James Hooper in Pictou in July 1910. Her marriage describes her as twenty-four, born and resident on Pictou Island, and names Hugh and Flora as her parents. The existing family includes Leonard Victor, Roland Marr, Welsford Lewis and Elmer Douglas. Leonard’s marriage and death and Elmer’s marriage use Dolina with James or John James as their parent pair. Dolina was explicitly the wife informant on James’s 1956 death registration. Welsford’s mother is recorded as Dolly in his death entry and Delina in his marriage. Leonard’s marriage and death use John James and James for the same parental pair, supporting the paternal name variants. Welsford’s birth date and military-service chronology remain uncertain. The later records are not contemporary proof of the children’s birth dates. Dolina’s parents are further identified by Hugh McCollum and Flora McSwain’s 29 October 1884 marriage: Hugh was an Island-born farmer with parents Donald and Agnes; Flora was born at High Bank, with parents Murdoch and Jessie. Cora Jane’s marriage and death name the same parental household, supporting Dolina and Cora as sisters. Flora’s later death record has a MacShaw surname reading and a 15/16 February 1939 death-date conflict, which remain separate source qualifications. The original 1921 household records June, daughter aged two, and Welsford, son aged nine months; the index renders these names as Lorne and Weloford. June’s delayed birth application and 1945 marriage identify June Elaine with the James/John James and Dolina/Delina parent pair. Welsford’s nine-month age in the 1921 census cannot be reconciled with the later reported 11 September 1921 birth date without a contemporary natal source.

Willena “Lena Bill” MacCallum MacDonald

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Delina / Dolina / Dollie McCallum Hooper