Scotland - A Concise History
by James Halliday

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© James Halliday 1990.   For Olive.

Copyright leased to the publisher. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means electronic, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without prior permission of the publisher. Second Edition 1996. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data. A catalogue for this book is available from the British Library. ISBN 0-903065-87-8 Cover photographs by Gordon Wright.

Contents

• Foreword
• The Land and the People
• Making a Kingdom
• Building a State
• Saving a Nation
• The Days of James IV
• The Queen and Mr Knox
• The Crown and the Covenants
• Victory and Surrender
• Changing Scotland
• The Highland Tragedy
• British Scotland
• To Be or Not to Be
• Scottish General Election Results
• Scotland: Population
• Scottish Contacts
• Flower of Scotland
• Scots Wha Hae

This Map Shows EXACTLY Where Scottish Families Settled in Canada

Scots did not come to Canada in one wave. They came in at least four — from four different parts of Scotland, for four different reasons — and each one settled its own corner of the country and stayed there. Which means the province your Scottish family first appears in tells you which Scotland they left. This documentary reads the map region by region: the Hector at Pictou in 1773 and the cleared Highlanders and Hebrideans who made Cape Breton the most Gaelic place on Earth outside Scotland; Glengarry County, settled from one Catholic glen by way of the Mohawk Valley; the Orkneymen who manned the Hudson's Bay Company and left their surnames in Métis families across the north-west; the Kildonan settlers who walked 700 miles to the Red River; the Lewis crofters who became French Canadians at Lac-Mégantic; the Lowland merchants who ran Montreal; the weavers of Lanark, the Sutherland men of Zorra, the Highlanders of Bruce County; the Clydeside shipwrights of the Pacific coast — and why 4.5 million Canadians claim Scottish ancestry while the number keeps falling.