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\WA JOURNAL 7H_fi SATURDAY,MARCH 20,3954‘ IJRestoring of Clan Macnab Title lRecalls Stormy Madawaska Days -- 7’ i ’i I i I lL‘npulu'w l ‘ I Ii‘ 3 reront UCRS report niil tot Edinhurcli is vorl'eri ilir‘re ‘wlll he shortly a Hih Chief ot‘ ‘Mnriiab, Archibald Corrie A'Ifll‘nftl). home from India, has already imuizht Kiiinell House. the his- l ‘inrii' seat of the Clan on the. . inochart near the castle wliirh l I ‘thr‘ English destroyed 300 Worst ‘dgti. Now he has petitioned .ll‘ie Crown for the restoration ‘0! the coat of arms of his (‘l‘dn i~the gory head of MacNelsh with its motto “Dread Nought".- | Thus after 100 years historyi has come full cycle. Redrenwd‘ is the proud Elan heritage‘ 5 which another Archibald. the I ‘isth Laird. squandered in the courts of Europe and finally in‘ deieat in our Madawnska- I Ottawa wilderness, Tattered Titan. There is a splendid township} in chi'rew county named often this tattered Titan who tried ‘ . , r - ts t” 9513mm“ a kingdom in thPl mum LODGE, Chief Mncnub's outp st destroyed about 20 years ago. The lodge- was triangle of the Madawaska and at White Luke as it was just before it was erected in 1335. the Ottawa. ‘ In the town or Arnprlor‘ ’there is now an Oblate Novi- tiate on the site of that “Kin- nell Lodge" which the 13th 3 "Laird completed in 1831 in ;_ memory or his last ancestral i I House on the Dnchart in Scot~ land. (He also named a brawl~ ‘ing creek nearby the Dochartl) Also at White Lake are the ‘ gaunt stone remains, weed- ' grown, of Waba Lodge which he built by forced labor as an ' outpost in the Madawaska. hin- terland. and where he spent his last. Canadian days. i ‘ Of the Canadian memories of r the “Macan of Maenab" the ‘ happiest is that when he with his kinsmen. Andrew and George Buchanan, named and ‘fouiided Arnprior. . "Kim: nl' Kippen," ‘ These Buchanan brothers were descended from John Bu- chanan. the first Laird of Arnâ€" pryor, who once stole a deer destined for the Royal table and then dined King James the Fifth on his own venison! For that exploit he was dubbed the “King or Kippen". and he passed from history with an otherwise untarnished escuteh- eon, dying gallantly in battle I to thebuiul a un “FEMS. ea H M W Q as CHIEF MACNAB. On one of his trips to Qne~ Here is a rare portrait of Archibald. the last Lr'ird of bee or Montreal, where he met Macnab, possmly quafiing in reminiscent mood to his days new arrivals and depicted the of vanished glory on the Madriwaska. glories of his Madawaska â€"(C°”"e ' °‘ “Chive” “kingdom”, Chief Macnab in- duced these two kinsmen, Anâ€" .riy-mv and George. Buchanan to gull” ii..pil.1..,,.lilli~.l,l _ incl up the Ottawa and help him build a new Eden in the wilder- ness. Without much hesitation they (not; the Chief at his word and name. And so. on an Autumn night late in 1831, we find the three "exiles" gathered under the hospitable shelter ni‘ Kinncll Lodge. On Silifh occasions Mac- nab was at his bestâ€"the true and generous hast. Besides, these Buchanans were his “ain ‘ talk". The Chief's maternal} Q W . I, . ‘gmn‘llather “5 Buchanan 0“ sr. THERESA’S NOVITIATE (Oblate Fathers) at Arn- Arnpiior. prior now occupies the commanding site on the Ottawa 01' “’flSSail 11‘: Kinflcll- Chief Macnab's Kinnell Lodge. Some of the original timbers 01d Jammie 513% 0f Vanish‘ are incorporated in sections of the present structure. After ed éplendor were Ielivcd as the the Chief lost. his Madawasxa kingdom. Dun Manmiin, ChlEf'S Piper DlfiYEd them in“? Arnprlor's pioneer lumber “king”, took over Kinnell Lodge. ithe brave pasti Dugald C. Mac- rehiiilt it and landscaped it. Here he l'EPClVCd King Edward Nab, realm" that: "they made VII when he toured the Upper Ottawa as Prince of Wales. ,Elorious iclllfir-ntinn at Klnnell ~(thn by murlesy oi Rev. F. quminn, OMI; that night”. They surely did. And if three Highland gentle. commanded all bush and waierl It would hut»: 1 men. decidedly enlivened, quaf- traffic at White Lake. Geste" ‘0: D .tiny if these reci irom iuli goblets the ior- Tragedy stalked Kn men. 'Lln'ee Highland klilsmenâ€"theu hidden toast to a “King across The Burhannns went into‘l‘lu'dl‘l'El dlSSOU‘Dd 1“ dllSPth the wzitei"',who is there to C011~ltulillJPtili§ in a big war. 'l'l‘idv’hai‘l'1 Dnl‘llllttpd t0 5189ij by the. Clem“? built the famous timber slides Mflflawmkfl Wilt-‘1'? they mlmd‘ Under the xpell of the pi, at Bum-REM tragedy 313mm ed a “kingdom as splendid as brorh and good Highland them nil. “"3’ “‘0” 113' 1h? Playmnrcs of \vhlslzv warming their veins, Gemge Boulmiian w ‘ killed We” flnfisml's beyond the [the L‘ iieI sugeested railing the on the Oilfith l‘lt’E‘l’ and was Highland 1-11“ iron 3 “Beau plare Ariipriur after the nii~ interred in tin“ old pionm‘i" Yes, it will he the l‘f‘l'lfliiidâ€" cestrlil estates at Kippcn. The slot-limited burying ground a! lion oi a lot of hisiorr suggestion met With enthusmsâ€" Bytown whole- the tie approval and was at once when Uiiawn the pro-tent Ai'i'hililild Muenai) Transportation llltlil‘ti'lt't‘bl‘l'ulilc‘s the litti Chielinin of adopted. Buliclliig now stands. Andrew :i great rlitii. We hope he mines But the three kinsmen soon also met an mi‘ly rlrnih and to Al‘lll‘i'ltll‘ and White Latte qtll'll'l‘i‘llf‘d bitterly, Marni-ii) now lies: in the lni’iiflil‘? "Inl-h and rulilv-i the l'liiinrliliii deg» abandoned Klnneli Lodge and Bhui" 1‘":1lEt(‘i\' at Arnpiinr. ll'r‘iiilrliits of n urrzit iiilllll” in built Wnlm Lodge to keep out The i'hlcf died "imhnnororl.lullernms that Jliiut‘l'mt :Ilnng of sight at tho Burlmnnm‘ nntliii1:iine"lii n Brittany nsiiâ€" Srultish lll)|01‘\’,(‘l Hi all the From this stru|egic point hFllhfl Villilllt‘. lhr iiirhulrnt Mzirl I_--_â€" mhhâ€"dm-uâ€" .._.___._._