Posts Tagged ‘The Making of Canada’
Why Highlanders fled their ancestral lands
Left: HarperCollins; right: Library and Archives Canada, Acc. No. 1988-250-37 Numerous books have explored the Highland Clearances (the forced mass eviction of tenants from Scotland’s Highlands and western islands, mainly to turn land to sheep pasture), which began around 1760 and lasted a century. Many more have treated the arrival of these Highlanders in pre-Confederation Canada, both east…
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