The crofters couldn’t turn to working on kelp or fishing due to their decline. For many Highlanders emigration was the only solution. Living conditions were poor in the slums of the industrial ...
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First Minister Jack McConnell has pledged to use a Commonwealth education conference in Edinburgh to encourage more people from overseas to settle in Scotland and halt the nation's population decline.
Emigration from Scotland’s fishing communities was high in the 1880s. Catches were poor and the Russian Revolution had caused the collapse of one of the most reliable markets for Scottish fish.
Many mid-19th century French immigrants were political refugees who left France following the 1848 revolutions that swept through Europe. Scottish immigrants founded the Illinois Saint Andrew ...
and community members Ron and Eileen Sutherland embarked on a project of interviewing Scottish immigrants to British Columbia and individuals whose families emigrated to B.C. from Scotland some time ...