Bygone Lochaber
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Bygone Lochaber
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Author : Somerled MacMillan
language : en
Publisher: [Paisley, Scotland : Macmillan], 1971 (Glasgow : K. & R. Davidson)
Release Date : 1971
Bygone Lochaber written by Somerled MacMillan and has been published by [Paisley, Scotland : Macmillan], 1971 (Glasgow : K. & R. Davidson) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1971 with Clans categories.
The Lochaber Emigrants To Glengarry
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Author : R.B. Fleming
language : en
Publisher: Dundurn
Release Date : 1994-06-30
The Lochaber Emigrants To Glengarry written by R.B. Fleming and has been published by Dundurn this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994-06-30 with Social Science categories.
For anyone interested in the history of the Scottish people, in Scotland and North America, this book is essential reading. In Canada and the United States today there are tens of thousands of descendants of Highland Scots who left Lochaber around 1800 to settle in Glengarry County. This book deals with the conditions in Scotland before migration, settlement experiences in Glengarry, and the spread of these Scots-Canadians from Glengarry to the American and Canadian wests. There are fur trade and Métis connections, and even ties with the Caribbean. As well as colourful articles, this book contains a wealth of genealogical information, family trees, maps, photographs and other illustrations.
Old And New World Highland Bagpiping
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Author : John G. Gibson
language : en
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Release Date : 2002-05-22
Old And New World Highland Bagpiping written by John G. Gibson and has been published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-05-22 with Music categories.
The work is the result of over thirty years of oral fieldwork among the last Gaels in Cape Breton, for whom piping fit unself-consciously into community life, as well as an exhaustive synthesis of Scottish archival and secondary sources. Reflecting the invaluable memories of now-deceased new world Gaelic lore-bearers, John Gibson shows that traditional community piping in both the old and new world Gàihealtachlan was, and for a long time remained, the same, exposing the distortions introduced by the tendency to interpret the written record from the perspective of modern, post-eighteenth-century bagpiping. Following up the argument in his previous book, Traditional Gaelic Bagpiping, 1745-1945, Gibson traces the shift from tradition to modernism in the old world through detailed genealogies, focusing on how the social function of the Scottish piper changed and step-dance piping progressively disappeared. Old and New World Highland Bagpiping will stir controversy and debate in the piping world while providing reminders of the value of oral history and the importance of describing cultural phenomena with great care and detail.
The Scottish Pioneers Of Upper Canada 1784 1855
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Author : Lucille H. Campey
language : en
Publisher: Dundurn
Release Date : 2005-05-16
The Scottish Pioneers Of Upper Canada 1784 1855 written by Lucille H. Campey and has been published by Dundurn this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-05-16 with History categories.
Glengarry, Upper Canada’s first major Scottish settlement, was established in 1784 by Highlanders from Inverness-shire. Worsening economic conditions in Scotland, coupled with a growing awareness of Upper Canada’s opportunities, led to a growing tide of emigration that eventually engulfed all of Scotland and gave the province its many Scottish settlements. Pride in their culture gave Scots a strong sense of identity and self-worth. These factors contributed to their success and left Upper Canada with firmly rooted Scottish traditions. Individual settlements have been well observed, but the overall picture has never been pieced together. Why did Upper Canada have such appeal to Scots? What was their impact on the province? Why did they choose their different settlement locations? Drawing on new and wide-ranging sources author Lucille H. Campey charts the progress of Scottish settlement throughout Upper Canada. This book contains much descriptive information, including all known passenger lists. It gives details of the 550 ships, which made over 900 crossings and carried almost 100,000 emigrant Scots. The book describes the enterprise and independence shown by the pioneers who were helped on their way by some remarkable characters such as Thomas Talbot, Lord Selkirk, John Galt, Archibald McNab and William Dickson. Providing a fascinating overview of the emigration process, it is essential reading for both historians and genealogists. Scots were some of the provinces earliest pioneers and they were always at the cutting edge of each new frontier. They were a founding people who had an enormous influence on the province’s early development. "I am happy to commend Lucille Campey’s latest book on Scottish settlement patterns in Canada. The product of meticulous research, The Scottish Pioneers of Upper Canada has much to offer both genealogists and general readers, as it weaves together statistical information, institutional histories and personal accounts to produce a fascinating picture of the multi-dimensional networks that underpinned the transatlantic movement and brought 100,000 Scots to Upper Canada during the seven decades reviewed. Persistent myths of helpless exile are challenged, as the preconditions and processes of emigration are analyzed, along with the cultural traditions imported by the ’trail blazers and border guards’ who laid the foundations of Canada’s most populous province." - Marjory Harper, Reader in History, University of Aberdeen "With a real feel for the sacrifice and the emotional turmoil of the pioneers, Lucille H. Campey has one again got her audience to face the raw heritage common to every Scots-Canadian. This is an excellent read, full of fascinating detail dug from much archival research. This book is another splendid addition to a series of much interest to both historians and genealogists." - Professor Graeme Morton, Scottish Studies Foundation Chair, University of Guelph
The Highland Clearances
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Author : Eric Richards
language : en
Publisher: Birlinn
Release Date : 2012-11-05
The Highland Clearances written by Eric Richards and has been published by Birlinn this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-11-05 with History categories.
The Highland Clearances stands out as one of the most emotive chapters in the history of Scotland. This book traces the origins of the Clearances from the eighteenth century to their culmination in the crofting legislation of the 1880s. In considering both the terrible suffering of the Highland people as well as the stark choices that faced landowners during a period of rapid economic change, it shows how the Clearances were one of many 'attempted' solutions to the problem of how to maintain a population on marginal and infertile land, and were, in fact, part of a wider European movement of rural depopulation. In drawing attention away from the mythology to the hard facts of what actually happened, The Highland Clearances offers a balanced analysis of events which created a terrible scar on the Highland and Gaelic imagination.
Loyal Lochaber And Its Associations Historical Genealogical And Traditionary
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Author : William Drummond Norie
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1898
Loyal Lochaber And Its Associations Historical Genealogical And Traditionary written by William Drummond Norie and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1898 with Lochaber (Scotland) categories.
Traditional Gaelic Bagpiping 1745 1945
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Author : John Graham Gibson
language : en
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Release Date : 1998
Traditional Gaelic Bagpiping 1745 1945 written by John Graham Gibson and has been published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with History categories.
The definitive history of traditional Scottish Gaelic bagpiping.
The Emigration Of Lochaber Macmillans To Canada In 1802
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Author : Somerled MacMillan
language : en
Publisher: Ipswich, Mass. : E.B. McMillan
Release Date : 1958
The Emigration Of Lochaber Macmillans To Canada In 1802 written by Somerled MacMillan and has been published by Ipswich, Mass. : E.B. McMillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1958 with Ontario, Eastern categories.
A History Of The Highland Clearances
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Author : Eric Richards
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2020-08-05
A History Of The Highland Clearances written by Eric Richards and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-08-05 with History categories.
First published in 1982, A History of the Highland Clearances looks at the forcible clearance of tenants from land they had farmed for centuries by landlords in the Highlands of Scotland in the early nineteenth century. It examines the general context of historical change, provides a full narrative of the clearances and offers a critical evaluation of the documentary sources upon which the entire story depends. By placing his subject in its historical perspective and into the context of the rest of Britain and Europe, Eric Richards vividly illustrates the realities of the Highland experience in the age of the clearances.
Glencoe And The End Of The Highland War
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Author : Paul Hopkins
language : en
Publisher: Birlinn Ltd
Release Date : 2001-01-01
Glencoe And The End Of The Highland War written by Paul Hopkins and has been published by Birlinn Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-01-01 with History categories.
Paul Hopkins, an authority on early Jacobitism, sets the Massacre of Glencoe in its true context. The book describes the tensions in the Highlands between the Restoration and the End of the Revolution and the influence on the Highlands of national politics. Besides filling a blank in our knowledge of the Highlands in the decade following the Massacre, the book transforms our perspective on lowlands politics by showing that the Inquiry was part of a secret patriotic campaign to break the aristocracy's political stranglehold and increase the Scottish parliament's powers.