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Scots in Canada - Softcover

Calder, Jenni

 
9781842820384: Scots in Canada
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1842820389 ISBN 13: 9781842820384
Verlag: LUATH PR LTD, 2004

Inhaltsangabe

In Canada there are nearly as many descendants of Scots as there are people living in Scotland; almost 5 million Canadians ticked the Scottish origin box in the most recent Canadian Census. Many Scottish families have friends or relatives in Canada. Who left Scotland? Why did they leave? What did they do when they got there? What was their impact on the developing nation? Thousands of Scots were forced from their homeland, while others chose to leave, seeking a better life. As individuals, families and communities, they braved the wild Atlantic Ocean, many crossing in cramped under-rationed ships, unprepared for the fierce Canadian winter. And yet Scots went on to lay railroads, found banks and exploit the fur trade, and helped form the political infrastructure of modern day Canada. This book follows the pioneers west from Nova Scotia to the prairie frontier and on to the Pacific coast. It examines the reasons why so many Scots left their land and families. The legacy of centuries of trade and communication still binds the two countries, and Scottish Canadians keep alive the traditions that crossed the Atlantic with their ancestors.

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Jenni Calder was born in Chicago, educated in the United States and England, and has lived in or near Edinburgh since 1971. After several years of part-time teaching and freelance writing, including three years in Kenya, she worked at the National Museums of Scotland from 1978 to 2001 successively as education officer, Head of Publications, script editor for the Museum of Scotland, and latterly as Head of Museum of Scotland International. In the latter capacity her main interest was in emigration and the Scottish diaspora. She has written and lectured widely on Scottish, English and American literary and historical subjects, and writes fiction and poetry as Jenni Daiches.

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Verlag
LUATH PR LTD
Erscheinungsdatum
2004
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1842820389
ISBN 13 
9781842820384
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
208
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