Author: Donald MacKay
Publisher: Dundurn
ISBN: 1554882877
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
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
Author: Donald MacKay
Publisher: Dundurn
ISBN: 1554882877
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Dundurn
ISBN: 1554882877
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
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 Songs of Scotland Chronologically Arranged, with Introduction and Notes
Author: Scotland. [Appendix. - Miscellaneous.]
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 642
Book Description
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 642
Book Description
A Vindication of the Scottish Covenanters: Consisting of a Review of the First Series of the "Tales of My Landlord," Extracted from the Christian Instructor for 1817
Author: Scotland. - Covenanters
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Category : Covenanters
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Covenanters
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
The Poets and Poetry of Scotland
Author: James Grant Wilson
Publisher:
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Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 608
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 608
Book Description
The Illustrated Book of Scottish Songs: from the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Century
The Illustrated Book of Scottish Songs
Author: Charles Mackay
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Category : Ballads, Scots
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Ballads, Scots
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
The Scots Worthies, ... Containing a Brief Historical Account of the Most Eminent Noblemen, Gentlemen, Ministers, and Others, ...
The Scots Worthies ...: Their last words and dying testimonies; embracing the whole that is to be found in Naphtali and the Cloud of witnesses, together with others extracted from memoirs ... and other documents ... with historical notes and observations ... by a clergyman of the Church of Scotland
The Book of Scottish Song; Collected and Illustrated with Historical and Critical Notices
Author: Alexander WHITELAW (Poetical Antiquary.)
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Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 644
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 644
Book Description