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V v’fiA’ JOURNAL H\ "\HRY .r \\’\LKER, spmui Juurmi ('nrnspondrnrai l , lCnpyrighi,l will be shortly a 14th Chief of Macnab. Archibald Corrie Macnab, home from India, has already bought Kinnell House, the his- toric seat of the Clan on the Dochart near the castle which the English destroyed 300 years ago. Now he has petitioned the Crown for the restoration of the coat of arms of his clan Htlie gory head of MacNeish with its motto “Dread Nought”. Thus after 100 years history has come full cycle. Redeemed is the proud clan heritage which another Archibald, the 13th Laird, squandered in the courts or Europe and finally in defeat in our Madawaska- 1 Ottawa wilderness. i Tattered Titan. ‘ There is a. splendid township 4 in Renfrew county named after lthis tattered Titan who tried 'to establish arklngdom in the triangle of the Madawa'ska’and' d, the Ottawa. i In the town of Arnprlor Ithere is now an oblate Noviâ€" tiate on the site of that “Kinâ€" nell Lodge" which the 13th Laird completed in 1831 in imemory of his last ancestral House on the Dochart in Scotâ€" land. (He also named a brawl- » ing creek nearby the Dochart.) 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. Of the Canadian memories of the "Macnab of Macnab" the happiest is that when he with his kinsmen, Andrew and George Buchanan, named and founded Arnprior. "King of Kipnen." These Buchanan brothers were descended from John Bu- chanan, the first Laird of Am- pryor, who once stole a. deer destined for the Royal table and then dined King James the Fifth on his own venison! For a that exploit he was dubbed. the '(ing of Kippen", and he ssed from history with an otherwise iintarnished escutch- on, ,dying gallantly in battle or the beautiful Mary Queen f Scots. On one of his trips to Que- ew arrivals and depicted the lories of his Madawaska 'kingdom", Chief Macnab in- If a recent news report outl of Edinburgh is correct there SATURDAY, MARCH 20, 19‘54. Restoring bf Clan Macnab Title Recalls Storm y “it! Madggaskaylgys WABA LODGE, Chief Macnab's outpost at White Lain: as i ‘ just before it was destroyed aboutzo years, ago. The lccgo was erected in 1835. “179.03% 4 ._}:'._"~ CHIEF MACNAB. Here is a rare poi "all: of Archibald the last Laird of .‘lzrrnsi'nâ€"gm oi vanished glory on the Madawas a. oi Archives or Canada) duced these two klnsmen, An- drew and George Buchanan, to ~cept his proposition to come ‘ the Ottawa and help him lid 21 new Eden in the wilderâ€" ess. Without much hesitation they took the Chief at his word and came. And so‘ on an Autumn night late in 1831. we find the three "exiles" gathered under the hospitable shelter of Kinnell Lodge. On such occasions Mac- nab was at his bestâ€"the true and generous host. Besides, these Buchanans were his “sin folk". The Chief's maternal grandfather was Buchanan oi Arnprior. Wassail at Kinneli. Old Jacobite days of vanish- ed splendor were relived as the Chief‘s piper played them into the brave past. Dugald C. More Nab records that "they made glorious jolliflcation at Kinnell that night". They surely did. And if three Highland gentleâ€" men. decidedly enlivened, quai- iod from full goblets the for- bidden toast to a “King across the water", who is there to con- demn? Under the spell of the pi- broch and good Highland whisky warming their veins, the Chief suggested calling the place Arnprlor after the an- cestral estates at Kippcn. The suggestion met with enthusiasâ€" tic approval and was at once adopted. But the three kinsmen soon quarrelled bitterly, Macnab abandoned Kinnell Lodge and built Waba Lodge to keep out f sight of the Buchanans! From this strategic point he i ST. THERESA'S NOVITIATE (Oblate Fathers) at Ann prior now occupies the commanding site on the Ottawa of Chief Macnab's Kinnell Lodger Some of the original timbers are incorporated in sections of the present structure Aftcr the Chief lost his Madawaska kingdom, Dan McLachlin, Arnprior's pioneer lumber “king”, took over Kmnell Lodge, rebuilt it and landscaped it. Here he received King Edward VII when he toured the Upper Ottawa. as Prince of Wales. ~rPholu by COUIlESJ' 0! For. F. Quinlan. 0l\'lll It would have been a "Beau Geste” of Destiny if these three Highland kinsmenâ€"thelr quarrel dissolved in dustâ€"had ,becn permitted to sleep by the Wiadawaska where they found- ed a. "kingdom" as splendid as any won by the claymores of their ancestors beyond the Highland Line. Yes, it will be the reclama- iion of a lot of history when jthe present Archibald Macnab ‘becomrs the Nth Chieftain of a great clan‘We hope he comes to Arnprior and White Lake commanded all bush and water traffic at White Lake, Tragedy stalked Kinsmen. The Buclnnnns went into lumbering in a big way They built the famous timber slides at Bytown. But tragedy stalked them all. George Buchanan was killed on the Ottawa river and was interred in the old pioneer stockaded burying ground at Bytown where the Ottawa T r a nsp o r t a tion (Electric) Building now stands. Andrew also met an early death and now lies in the (anions “Inch and rallies the Canadian des- BhUi” cemetery at Arnprior. cgpdants of a great name in The Chief died '“unimnoro itte ess that n e d ale and unsung" in a Brittany flsh- 52W in: village. file turbulent Madawask â€"â€"