[Magdalen] Whither Scotland?

[Allan Carr]

I'm married to a daughter of Cajuns from Louisiana. Before there was a Nova
Scotia, the Mi'kmaq were the sole inhabitants. When the French arrived,
many of them married Mi'kmaq and the two lived in what was called Arcadia.
There were quite a few civil wars and wars with New England until The
Treaty of Paris finally ceded the territory to Britain in 1763.
For the previous ten years, the British rid the colony of the French and
Mi'kmaq inhabitants, shipping them to Louisiana or to deep in the forests.
Cajun is a corruption og Acadian.
Having finished this expulsion, Nova Scotia was rid of contamination by
native Americans or French and was free to truly become Nova Scotia.

On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 1:23 PM, Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I bought a book about this called "The Clearings" when I was on Iona. It's
> the same thing we did with the native Americans and, more recently, with
> the folks living in the mountains around here so we could build Shenandoah
> National Park.
>
> > On Sep 19, 2014, at 11:43 AM, Marion Thompson <marionwhitevale at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > The time of the Highland Clearances drove the Scottish crofters off the
> land so the landowners could make more money off sheep.  And their homes
> were burned, leaving them no alternatives at all other than to emigrate.
> My forebears arrived in eastern Ontario in the early 19th century.
> >
> > Marion Thompson, a pilgrim
> >> On 9/19/2014 9:04 AM, Jay Weigel wrote:
> >> You really shouldn't be surprised at that, Val. Between the English
> booting
> >> our ancestors to northern Ireland (which wasn't "home" anyway) and the
> >> economic situation in much of Scotland, it only made sense for a lot of
> >> Scots, particularly younger sons, to head for the colonies ASAP. There
> were
> >> opportunities, and land, and money to be made! ;->
> >>
> >>> On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 4:49 AM, Val Fizzell <johnval at nectar.com.au>
> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>  Thanks Val. I think that from a world economic view this may be best
> for
> >>>> now.
> >>>> Lynn, up late in the USA
> >>> Hi, Lynn,
> >>> I think there were several problems with currency, defence, etc for
> just
> >>> over 5 million folk.
> >>> I've been surprised at the number of folk on the list with Scottish
> >>> ancestry. :)
> >>> Blessings,
> >>> Val-also of Scottish ancestry on my father's side - he was named
> 'Robert
> >>> Bruce' with the surname 'Sutherland'.
> >
>



-- 
Allan Carr