First name Angus Andrew
Second name MacLellan
YOB 1881
YOD 1968

Native Area

Canada, Nova Scotia, Cape Breton Island, Cape Breton County, Christmas Island, Grand Mira

Person ID 11259

Biography

Angus MacLellan of Mira More, Cape Breton, was the grandson of the bard Donald MacLellan (Dòmhnall Gobha). He was born in 1881 and was a soldier in the First World War. After the war, he worked in the coal mines in Cape Breton.

He was one of the island's best Gaelic singers and was related to Vincent MacLellan who published a collection of Gaelic songs from Cape Breton titled Fàilte do Cheap Breatainn in the 1890s. Angus died in 1968.