Scotland Farewell
Title | Scotland Farewell PDF eBook |
Author | Donald MacKay |
Publisher | Dundurn |
Pages | 282 |
Release | 2006-08-30 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1459711181 |
This is the story of the Highland Scots who sailed to Pictou, Nova Scotia, in 1773 aboard the brig Hector. These intrepid emigrants came for many reasons: the famine of the previous spring, pressures of population growth, intolerable rent increases, trouble with the law, the hunger of landless men to own land of their own. Upon arrival at Pictou, after an appalling storm-tossed crossing, they found they had been deceived. The promised prime farming land turned out to be virgin forest. Only the kindness of the Mi'kmaq and the few New Englanders already settled there enabled them to survive until they learned how to exploit the forests and clear land. But survive they did, and their prosperity encouraged shiploads of emigrants, many fellow clansmen, to join them, making northeastern Nova Scotia a true New Scotland.
Scotland Farewell
Title | Scotland Farewell PDF eBook |
Author | Donald MacKay |
Publisher | Dundurn |
Pages | 281 |
Release | 2006-08-30 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1554882877 |
This is the story of the Highland Scots who sailed to Pictou, Nova Scotia, in 1773 aboard the brig Hector. These intrepid emigrants came for many reasons: the famine of the previous spring, pressures of population growth, intolerable rent increases, trouble with the law, the hunger of landless men to own land of their own. Upon arrival at Pictou, after an appalling storm-tossed crossing, they found they had been deceived. The promised prime farming land turned out to be virgin forest. Only the kindness of the Mi’kmaq and the few New Englanders already settled there enabled them to survive until they learned how to exploit the forests and clear land. But survive they did, and their prosperity encouraged shiploads of emigrants, many fellow clansmen, to join them, making northeastern Nova Scotia a true New Scotland.
The Scottish Minstrel
Title | The Scottish Minstrel PDF eBook |
Author | Charles Rogers |
Publisher | |
Pages | 614 |
Release | 1885 |
Genre | Ballads, Scots |
ISBN |
The Songs of Scotland Chronologically Arranged
Title | The Songs of Scotland Chronologically Arranged PDF eBook |
Author | Scotland. [Appendix. - Miscellaneous.] |
Publisher | |
Pages | 636 |
Release | 1893 |
Genre | Ballads, Scots |
ISBN |
Scotland's Story
Title | Scotland's Story PDF eBook |
Author | Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall |
Publisher | |
Pages | 490 |
Release | 1907 |
Genre | Scotland |
ISBN |
The modern Scottish minstrel; or, The songs of Scotland of the past half century, with memoirs of the poets, and specimens in English verse of modern Gaelic bards, by C. Rogers
Title | The modern Scottish minstrel; or, The songs of Scotland of the past half century, with memoirs of the poets, and specimens in English verse of modern Gaelic bards, by C. Rogers PDF eBook |
Author | Charles Rogers |
Publisher | |
Pages | 326 |
Release | 1857 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
The Songs of Scotland Chronologically Arranged, with Introduction and Notes
Title | The Songs of Scotland Chronologically Arranged, with Introduction and Notes PDF eBook |
Author | Scotland. [Appendix. - Miscellaneous.] |
Publisher | |
Pages | 636 |
Release | 1872 |
Genre | |
ISBN |