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It is amazing the amount of Scottish people in Canada, especially after the Highland Clearances. This was when landowners discovered, it was more profitable having sheep, rather than people. They evicted the people and burnt their houses down, and often shipped them off to the New World. When doing my Family Tree, I discovered quite few relatives in Canada and Australia.
Ian
Ian

Well, as you likely know, Nova Scotia is New Scotland and many a Scot from the Clearance landed In Pictou via the Hector in 1770 (or around there) The Hector has been replicated and is quayed as part of a museum. Over the next few years 30,000 Scots crossed the Atlantic, Then in 18 ... 1815, I think, the Hope and the William Tell arrive ...
They must have found something resembling a better life because they kept coming.
They must have found something resembling a better life because they kept coming.