New edition of the MacLeods book launching Saturday

This Saturday Selkirk Stories, a P.E.I. publishing house, will be launching a newly revised edition of “The MacLeods of Prince Edward Island by Harold S. MacLeod (1927-2014).”

This classic work of genealogy and Island history was most recently published in 1987, although that edition was reprinted a number of times. The revised 2017 edition includes all the revisions MacLeod made to his book from 1993 through 2005.

The new edition is available for sale online. The launch is planned for July 22 at 2 p.m. at the Montague Rotary Library. The 2017 edition of “The MacLeods of Prince Edward Island” is based on computer files left behind after Harold MacLeod’s death in 2014. This is the 176th revision of a document created in 1993 and last edited in 2005. This edition includes all of the revisions that Harold MacLeod made until 2005, but only includes what the author included in the digital files he left behind. The photographs, and the whimsical drawings included in previous editions of this book, are absent, as are some of the poems and other short texts.

Those who own an earlier edition of “The MacLeods of Prince Edward Island” will find that some sections of the book have changed significantly since the last printing. For example, in the 1996 printing, the entry on the family of John MacLeod and Mary MacKay of Heatherdale, who were both born on the Isle of Skye (Scotland), is a single page. In the 2017 edition, reflecting the additional information incorporated by Harold MacLeod, the same entry runs five and a half pages.

For more information on this edition of “The MacLeods of Prince Edward Island,” contact the publishers or visit the website at www.selkirkstories.comDocument4.