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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 443, 27 February 1909, Page 10

. Rpoeny—"Where did you get th' black eye, Mick?" Clancy—"Why, Jim Down's juat back,, from his hojieymoon-^-nn'. 'twas ine advised Tim t' git married." ' There'died in Toronto recently. John'Mackay, aged 'ninety-four, and with him is removed th 6' last but one of tho piolieors of the Red. .River Valley, in Western tho beginning of tho province of Manitoba. Maokay .was ii member of ; ono of several little bailda of Scottish Highlanders who, in 1812, and the years immediately following, landed oft the shores of Hudson's Bay. They had ■- been brought from Scotland by Lord Solklrk, and havo always been knoWn as the Selkirk Colony. Tho only living member of this historic colony now is-Miss Matbesqn, aunt of Archbishop Mathoson, of Rupertslantl. Miss Mnthesoli Wilis bofn in the year 1815 on tho Atlantic Ocean, oil the- ship Hadddtf, dui'itig its four months' vovago to Catladft, The vbriorablo lady is still.living iit the heart of Ihb original boloriyj near Winhi-