George O. Mackie and Family
Professor emeritus, University of Victoria, BC, Canada.
1. Biography. This includes a bit of family background, schools and university, army service, marriage and family, emigration to Canada, hobbies and the way my work developed. Biography
2. George Mackie, CV and scientific publications. Lists books, book chapters and papers published in professional journals. CV/publs
3. "My Life and work: An unstructured affair". This is an illustrated account of how I got interested in biology, the places I worked, the people I worked with, and my work highlights. Career
4. "Far Cathay". My father's account of his trip around the world in 1922. Far Cathay
5. "Mackie Men and the Empire". An account of my Mackie and Owen forebears and their families and of my own war years in British Columbia. MME
6. F.P. Mackie: career and publications (by Richard and George Mackie). Per
7. F.P. Mackie's photos from India 1903/4 including the Younghusband Expedition to Tibet. Younghusband
8. "Life at Packhorse Farm". This is about my family after World War II. Packhorse
9. "Mary Owen and Weston Elwes". An account of my mother's first marriage and of her husband's "other life" about which we knew nothing until recently. Mary and Weston
10. Recollections of her parents by my mother Mary Owen. Recollections
11. Stories by Aunt Chris. Chris
12. Lawrence Mackie’s letters home during the second world war edited by Peter Mackie. Letters
13. Gillian Mackie's "Letters from Belgrade", written when she was a graduate student studying in Yugoslavia in 1953-4, Belgrade
14. Gillian Mackie's "An Oxfordshire Childhood" (Iffley)
15.Gillian's Family Background, a companion piece to "An Oxfordshire Childhood" Background
16. Portraits by Valerie Rushton Valerie
17. Samples of my earthenware pottery:
18. Samples of Gillian's stoneware and the kiln we built in the field. Gillian's-pots
19. Pictures of Aunt Pat in her younger days Patpics
20. Christmas newsletters