Biography

Simon George MacLellan was born in Meat Cove, Cape Breton on the 22nd of October 1890 and died in Sydney on the 16th of July 1974. He and his wife Marcella had 12 children. Simon fished in Cape Breton in the summer months and spent the winter cutting wood in Ontario. A collector from the United States recorded over 50 songs, Gaelic and English, from him at the end of the 1960s. Fred MacAuley recorded Clann Ghriogair air Fògradh from him on his trip to Cape Breton in 1972.