[Magdalen] Whither Scotland?

[Molly Wolf]

 Not quite true.  Some Acadians remained or returned, and the Mi'qmac having been hanging in all along.

My kids' paternal ancestors were among the New Englanders who swarmed into the vacancy left by the displaced Acadians, and are considered Pre-Loyalist, as were the German and French Protestants who were settled in Lunenburg County and other locales during the 1750s and 1760s.  The Scots arrived in the 1770s in Pictou County.  Halifax was settled by English folk of varying respectability.

My part of Ontario, from roughly Prescott to Prince Edward County, is largely Loyalist settlement.  Glengarry, east of us and just west of the Ottawa River, was settled first by a Loyalist Scots regiment right after the Revolution; it and Cape Breton then got a mass of Scots from the Highland Clearances, as well as Mohawks who had been displaced from northern New York. But there were retired British soldiers, English of all descriptions, French spilling over from Quebec, Irish military labourers, some Famine Irish (most went to the US, having no love for British colonialism), Pennsylvania Deutsch, Germans, and a surprisingly large number of Poles, who worked in the timber trade.

Since WWII, Ontario has seen influxes of all sorts:  Italians, Vietnamese, East Indians, Caribbean people, Somalis, Lebanese, etc.  The food has improved immeasurably.

Molly

The man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way. -- Mark Twain

> On Sep 19, 2014, at 6:19 PM, Allan Carr <allanc25 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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