James Ward MacCallum

Island story

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.