Scottish Canadians

Scottish Canadians
Regions with significant populations
	Canada
Languages
	English, Scottish Gaelic (Canadian Gaelic dialect), French, Scots
Religion
	Christianity (including Presbyterian, Anglican, Baptist, Roman Catholic, United); Other religions
Related ethnic groups
	Scottish, English, Scotch-Irish, Métis, Ulster Scots Canadians, English Canadians, English Americans, Scottish Americans, Ulster Scots, other Gaels

Scottish Canadians are people of Scottish descent or heritage living in Canada. As the third-largest ethnic group in Canada and amongst the first Europeans to settle in the country, Scottish people have made a large impact on Canadian culture since colonial times. According to the 2011 Census of Canada, the number of Canadians claiming full or partial Scottish descent is 4,714,970,^[2] or 15.10% of the nation's total population. Prince Edward Island has the highest province of Scottish descent at 41%.

The Scots-Irish Canadians are a similar ethnic group. They descended from Lowland Scots and Northern English people via Ulster and observe many of the same traditions as Scots.

Scottish settlement of Canada[]

Scottish people have a long history in Canada, dating back several centuries. Many towns, rivers and mountains have been named in honour of Scottish explorers and traders such as Mackenzie Bay in the Yukon (named for Sir Alexander Mackenzie), and others are named after locations in Scotland, such as Calgary (named after a Scottish beach). Most notably, the Atlantic province of Nova Scotia is Latin for "New Scotland". Once Scots formed the vanguard of the movement of Europeans across the continent. In more modern times, immigrants from Scotland have played a leading role in the social, political and economic history of Canada, being prominent in banking, labour unions, and politics.^[3]

The first documented source of Scots in what would become Canada comes from the Saga of Eric the Red and the Viking expedition of 1010 AD to Vinland (literally, the land of meadows), which is believed to refer to the island of Newfoundland. The Viking prince Thorfinn Karlsefni took two Scottish slaves to Vinland.^[4] When the longships moored along the coast, they sent the slaves ashore to run along the waterfront to gauge whether it was safe for the rest of the crew to follow. After the Scots survived a day without being attacked, by either human or animal, the Vikings deemed it safe to spend the night ashore. The expedition was abandoned three years later; the original sagas were passed on in an oral tradition and then written down 250 years later.

Censusdivisions-ethnic — Self-identified Scottish Canadians are a plurality in parts of Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island (areas coloured in teal).

An apocryphal voyage in 1398 by a captain named Zichmni, believed to be Henry I Sinclair, Earl of Orkney, is also claimed to have reached Atlantic Canada as well as New England.

New Scotland[]

The first attempts in earnest to entice Scottish settlers to Canada began as early as 1622, when Sir William Alexander obtained permission from King James VI of Scotland (James I of England) to establish a "new Scotland" — the origin of the name Nova Scotia. However, only a small number of Scottish families settled in Canada, prior to the conquest of New France in 1759. Those who did make a home on Canadian soil were Gaels who sought political and religious asylum following the failed Jacobite uprisings in Scotland in 1715 and 1745. Most of these Scots settled in what is now the Atlantic coast.

Large-scale migration[]

Bumsted (1981) notes that between 1760 and 1860, millions of people emigrated from Great Britain. Before 1815, emigration was discouraged, but emigration from Scotland to the Maritime Provinces constituted one of the principal components of the exodus; by 1815 Scots formed one of the three major ethnic groups there. Most of the emigrants were unskilled Gaelic farmers, who gathered in isolated communities. The Maritimes attracted them because of the opportunity there to be left alone to pursue the traditional way of life.^[5]

A large group of Ulster Scots, many of whom had first settled in New Hampshire, moved to Truro, Nova Scotia in 1761. In 1772 a wave of Gaels began to arrive in Prince Edward Island, and in 1773 the ship Hector brought 200 Gaels to Pictou, beginning a new stream of Highland emigration — the town's slogan is "The Birthplace of New Scotland". At the end of the 18th century, Cape Breton Island had become a centre of Scottish Gaelic settlement, where only Scottish Gaelic was spoken.

A number of Scottish Loyalists who had fled the United States in 1783 arrived in Glengarry County (in eastern Ontario) and Nova Scotia. In 1803, Lord Thomas Douglas, 5th Earl of Selkirk, who was sympathetic to the plight of the dispossessed crofters (tenant farmers in the Highlands), brought 800 colonists to Prince Edward Island. In 1811, he founded the Red River Colony as a Scottish colonization project on an area of 300,000 square kilometres (120,000 sq mi) in what would later be the province of Manitoba — land that was granted by the Hudson's Bay Company, in what is referred to as the Selkirk Concession.

Prince Edward Island (PEI) was also heavily influenced by Scottish Gaelic settlers. One prominent settler in PEI was John MacDonald of Glenaladale, who conceived the idea of sending Gaels to Nova Scotia on a grand scale after Culloden. The name Macdonald still dominates on the island, which received a large influx of settlers, predominantly Catholics from the Highlands, in the late 18th Century. Another large group of Gaels arrived in 1803. This migration, primarily from the Isle of Skye, was organized by the Earl of Selkirk.

New Brunswick became the home for many Scots. In 1761, a Highland regiment garrisoned Fort Frederick. The surrounding lands surveyed by Captain Bruce in 1762 attracted many Scottish traders when William Davidson of Caithness arrived to settle two years later. Their numbers were swelled by the arrival of thousands of loyalists of Scottish origin both during and after the American Revolution.

One of the New Brunswick and Canada's most famous regiments was "The King's First American Regiment" founded in 1776. It was composed mostly of Highlanders, many of whom fought with their traditional kilts to the sound of the pipes. The regiment distinguished itself when it defeated Washington's forces at the Battle of Brandywine. When it disbanded after the War, most of its members settled in New Brunswick. A continual influx of immigrants from Scotland and Ulster meant that by 1843 there were over 30,000 Scots in New Brunswick.

Canadian Gaelic was spoken as the first language in much of "Anglophone" Canada, such as Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, and Glengarry County in Ontario. Gaelic was the third most commonly spoken language in Canada.^[6]

Memory and memorabilia[]

Today Canada is awash in Scottish memorabilia, as Rae (2005) shows. The Tartan days, clan gatherings, highland games, and showings of films like Braveheart indicate a sense of Scottishness that is informed by stories, narratives, or myths of the homeland's rural, masculinist, resistant past.^[7]

Other Canadians reject tartanism as a superficial and commercialized expression of Gaelic identity,^[8] and embrace Scottish Gaelic language and culture through the auspices of organizations such as the Atlantic Gaelic Academy and the Gaelic College. The Comhairle na Gàidhlig is an organization devoted to "creating an environment that makes Nova Scotia a place where Gaelic language, culture, and communities thrive."^[9]

Push factors[]

Main articles: Jacobite risings, Highland Clearances, Lowland Clearances, and Highland Potato Famine

Troubles back in Scotland in the 18th and 19th centuries generated a steady flow of emigrants. Some sought political asylum following the failed Jacobite risings in 1688, 1715 and 1745. The Gàidhealtachd was traditionally Catholic, and many Gaels came to Canada after facing eviction for their religious beliefs.^[10]^[11]

Those immigrants who arrived after 1759 were mainly Highland farmers who had been forced off their crofts (rented land) during the Highland and Lowland Clearances to make way for sheep grazing due to the British Agricultural Revolution.

Others came as a result of famine. In 1846, potato crops were blighted by the same fungal disease responsible for the Great Irish Famine, and most Highland crofters were very dependent on potatoes as a source of food. Crofters were expected to work in appalling conditions, and although some landlords worked to lessen the effects of the famine on their tenants, many landlords simply resorted to eviction. In particular, John Gordon of Cluny became the target of criticism in newspapers when many of his crofters were reduced to living on the streets of Inverness. Gordon resorted to hiring a fleet of ships and forcibly transporting his Hebridean crofters to Canada, where they were conveniently abandoned on Canadian authorities. Some more sympathetic landlords supplied a free passage to what was hoped to be a better life. Crop failures continued into the 1850s and famine relief programmes became semi-permanent operations. During the ten years following 1847, from throughout the Highlands, over 16,000 crofters were shipped overseas to Canada and Australia.

Pull factors[]

Canada had plenty of land and jobs and new opportunities, which created a pull factor. The government made certain potential immigrants knew of the advantages, sending agents to recruit Irish and Scottish emigrants to settle in western Canada between 1867 and the 1920s. The Canadian government hoped to develop the economy in the sparsely populated western part of the country. It set up offices in towns in Ireland and Scotland, and agents went up and down the land pasting up attractive posters, giving lectures, handing out pamphlets and trying one-on-one to persuade farmers and laborers of the virtues of life in Canada. Although many people agreed to emigrate, the agents faced competition from the United States, New Zealand, Australia, and South Africa, and opponents of emigration warned of hardship in Canada. The agents did not create 'emigration fever,' but they did tap into a sense of restlessness that, if nurtured, could result in a decision to emigrate.^[12]

Cultural influence[]

Nova Scotia[]

See also: Music of Nova Scotia, Celtic music in Canada, Canadian Gaelic, Cape Breton English, and Maritimer English

The Scots have influenced the cultural mix of Nova Scotia for centuries and constitute the largest ethnic group in the province, at 29.3% of its population. The name of Nova Scotia literally means "New Scotland" in Latin, and its flag was designed as a combination of the Scottish Saltire and the Royal Arms of Scotland.

Nova Scotia was briefly colonized by Scottish settlers in 1620, although by 1624 the Scottish settlers had been removed by treaty and the area was turned over to the French until the middle of the 18th century. Scottish settlement greatly accelerated during the resettlement of Loyalists in Nova Scotia following the end of the American revolutionary war, and especially following the Highland Clearances in Scotland.

The Gaelic influences of Scottish immigrants continue to play an important role in defining the cultural life of the province, especially in its music. According to the 2006 census about 900 Nova Scotians are fluent in Gaelic languages (the census does not distinguish between Scottish Gaelic/Canadian Gaelic and Irish Gaelic), and about 6,015 in all of Canada.^[13] However, the Nova Scotian Office of Gaelic Affairs estimates there are currently around 2000 Scottish Gaelic speakers in the province and notes the enduring impact of institutions such as the Gaelic College in Cape Breton.^[14]

Dalhousie University in Halifax, the largest university in the Maritime provinces, was founded in 1818 by Scottish aristocrat George Ramsay as the only Gaelic college in Canada. St. Francis Xavier University in Antigonish was also founded by a Scot — Colin Francis MacKinnon, a Catholic bishop.

Murdoch (1998) notes that the popular image of Cape Breton Island as a last bastion of Gaelic culture distorts the complex history of the island since the 16th century. The original Micmac inhabitants, Acadian French, Lowland Scots, Irish, Loyalists from New England, and English have all contributed to a history which has included cultural, religious, and political conflict as well as cooperation and synthesis. The Highland Scots became the largest community in the early 19th century, and their heritage in music, folklore, and language has survived government indifference, but it is now threatened by a synthetic marketable 'tartan clan doll culture' aimed primarily at tourists.^[8]

Quebec[]

Ontario[]

See also: Glengarry County, Ontario, Glengarry Highland Games, Canadian Gaelic, and Eastern Ontario

Glengarry County in modern day-Ontario is a historic region with lots of Scottish background. This is because it is the site of where many Scottish Highlanders settled after the Highland Clearances. Scottish Gaelic / Canadian Gaelic is a spoken language in the county, but the number of speakers has declined to a great degree. Maxville Public School in Maxville, Glengarry still offers the language. Also known in the region are the Glengarry Highland Games where many Scottish competitions are held to celebrate Scottish Culture. The chief Scottish town in Glengarry was Cornwall, located in modern-day Ontario. It was reinforced in 1786 when The McDonald arrived at Quebec from Greenock with 520 new pioneers. Soon immigrants came from all parts of Scotland to make it one of the most important Scots-Canadian communities. The Glengarry clansmen managed to get away from their homelands before the British Government's embargo during the war with Napoleon. Many other retired officials from the Hudson's Bay Company joined the Glengarry Settlements. Another famous Scottish area that came to exert great influence in Ontario was the Perth Settlement, another region of Scottish and military origin. Unemployment and suffering following the end of the Napoleonic Wars caused the British government to reverse its former policies and actively encourage emigration. In 1815, three loaded transports set sail from Greenock for Upper Canada: the Atlas, the Baptiste Merchant and the Borothy. After the War of 1812 ended, many soldiers from the disbanded regiments joined them. In 1816, some Scots-Irish from Ulster arrived in the area. Many Perth families became prominent in both provincial and national governments.

An educational institution of Scottish origin is Queen's University in Kingston "the Aberdeen of Canada", founded largely through the efforts of noted scholar George Munroe Grant. Numerous educational institutions have Scottish influence, one being Sir John A. Macdonald Collegiate Institute, a secondary school located in Toronto, Ontario. The crest contains a map of Canada and the symbols of the Macdonald clan: a white coronet, a mailed fist, and crossed crosslets. Red, Royal Purple, and White, which predominate in the tartan of Sir John's family clan, Clanranald.

British Columbia[]

Scottish influence has been an important part of the cultural mix in metropolitan Vancouver and British Columbia. The St. Andrew's and Caledonian Society of Vancouver was founded in 1886, the same year as the city. On St. Andrew's Day, 1887, the society held a grand St. Andrew's Ball in McDonough Hall at the southeast corner of Hastings and Columbia and almost half the city's population attended. The city still celebrates Scottish Heritage week which concludes with the BC Highland Games.

Many local place names are of Scottish origin. The district of Dollarton was named for Captain Robert Dollar. West Vancouver's first European settler, John Lawson, planted holly by the side of the "burn" or river flowing across his property; he coined "Hollyburn" as the name for his place. Iona Island was formerly called McMillan Island, after a pioneer Scots settler, Donald McMillan. Part of West Vancouver is named after Dundarave Castle in Scotland. In 1905 at what is now West 41st Avenue in Vancouver, a young Scottish couple named MacKinnon who had recently settled in the district were invited to name the new station. She adapted the name Kerrisdale from her old family home, Kerrysdale, in Gairloch, Scotland. Kerrysdale means "little seat of the fairies."

Other evidence of the Scottish influence on the development of Greater Vancouver can be found in the names of parks, creeks and other geographical features throughout the metropolitan area, the most notable of which is the Fraser River.

Demographics[]

The following statistics are from the 2006 Census of Canada.^[15]

Canadians of Scottish descent
Province/territory	Number of respondents	Percentage of respondents
Prince Edward Island	54,290	41%
Nova Scotia	288,180	32%
Yukon	7,005	23%
Alberta	661,265	20%
British Columbia	828,145	20%
New Brunswick	142,560	20%
Saskatchewan	182,790	19%
Manitoba	209,170	18%
Ontario	2,101,100	17%
Northwest Territories	6,050	15%
Newfoundland and Labrador	34,920	7%
Nunavut	2,025	7%
Quebec	202,515	3%
Canada	4,720,015	15.1%

Provincial and territorial tartans[]

Main article: Official tartans in Canada

Every province and territory has an officially recognized tartan, except for Quebec, whose tartan is unofficial, and Nunavut, which has no tartan. Tartans were first brought to Canada by Scottish settlers, and the first province to officially adopt a tartan was Nova Scotia in 1955. Several of the tartans are registered in the books of the Court of the Lord Lyon, King of Arms of Scotland.^[16]

Notable Scottish-Canadians[]

The list of Scots who influenced Canada's history is indeed a long one. The explorer Alexander MacKenzie completed the first known transcontinental crossing of America north of Mexico. John Sandfield Macdonald (1812–1872) became Premier of the Province of Canada in 1862 and the first Premier of Ontario in 1867. Sir John A. Macdonald (1815–1891), who emigrated in 1820, became the first Prime Minister of the Dominion of Canada, leading the country through its period of early growth. Under his leadership, the dominion expanded to include Manitoba, British Columbia and Prince Edward Island.

Alexander Mackenzie was the first Liberal Prime Minister of Canada (1873–78). Another Scot, William Lyon Mackenzie, who led the revolt in Upper Canada against the Canadian government in 1838, became a symbol of Canadian radicalism. His rebellion dramatized the need to reform the country's outmoded constitution and led to the 1841 union of Upper Canada and Lower Canada. Another Scot, William McDougall, was known as one of the fathers of the Confederation; Sir Richard McBride (1870–1917) was from 1903–1915 the Premier of British Columbia, where his was the first government under the new system of political parties. McBride was also known for his tireless work on behalf of the extension of the Pacific Great Eastern Railroad, which was to bind British Columbia together the way the CPR had Canada..

In the 20th century, perhaps the most well-known Canadian politician, particularly revered in Britain for his contribution to the allied cause in World War II, was William Lyon Mackenzie King (1874–1950), who was very proud of his Scots background. King was three time Prime Minister of Canada, doing much to help preserve the unity of the French and English populations in his vast country. The first full-time Minister of Labour, King was the leader of the Liberal Party for over 30 years. His last term as Prime Minister was from 1935 to 1948.

Established as one of the major ethnic components of the Canadian population during the period 1815–1870, Scots dominated in many areas other than education and politics. Economic affairs also took their interest, and they largely controlled the trade in furs, timber, banking and railroad management. Almost one-quarter of Canada's industrial leaders in the 1920s had been born in Scotland, and another quarter had Scottish-born fathers.

It is important to remember that the Scots had a long tradition of struggle to maintain a separate identity in the face of a simultaneous pressure to integrate into a foreign society. Thus over the years, they had gained considerable experience in the ambivalence of being both accommodating and distinctive. Substantial numbers of Scots continued to immigrate to Canada after 1870. The early 20th century saw a great boom in the numbers leaving Scotland for Canada. As one of many ethnic groups in Canada, the Scots have managed to retain their separate identity, as well as adopting other religious practices such as deism.^[1]

List of notable Scottish Canadians[]

H. Montagu Allan (1860–1951), banker, ship owner, sportsman
Hugh Allan (1810–1882), financier and shipping magnate
Richard B. Angus, banker and philanthropist
Alexander Graham Bell (1847–1922), eminent scientist, credited with inventing the first practical telephone
Norman Bethune (1890–1939), medical innovator and a hero of the Chinese Revolution
Bill Blaikie, former Member of Parliament (MP), deputy leader of the New Democratic Party and Deputy Speaker of the House of Commons of Canada
Daniel Blaikie, Member of Parliament (MP) of the New Democratic Party
Rebecca Blaikie, former president of the New Democratic Party
George Brown (1818–1880), founder of the Toronto Globe, Father of Confederation and first de facto leader of the Liberal Party of Canada
James Cameron, film director
Gordon Campbell, Premier of British Columbia
Kim Campbell, first female Prime Minister of Canada
Neve Campbell, actress (Scottish father)
John Candy (1950-1994), actor and comedian, father was of Scottish descent
Wilf Carter, Nova Scotia born country musician
Jim Carrey, actor and comedian (his mother is Scottish Canadian from the Gordon Clan)^[17]^[18])
James Cockburn, first Speaker of the House in Canada (Conservative Party)
William Davidson, pioneer settler in New Brunswick
Stu Davis (1921–2007), singer/songwriter, radio and television performer aka Canada's Cowboy Troubadour (b. David Alexander Stewart)
John William Dawson (1820–1899), scientist, educator
Richard Dobie (1731–1805), fur trader, businessman
Sir James Douglas, chief factor of the HBC's Columbia District (1843–1858) and Governor of the colonies of the Colony of Vancouver Island (1851–64) and the Colony of British Columbia (1858–62)
Tommy Douglas (1904–1986), Premier of Saskatchewan and first leader of the New Democratic Party
Shirley Douglas, actress (daughter of Tommy Douglas)
William Dow (1800–1868), brewer and businessman
George Alexander Drummond (1829–1910), entrepreneur
Sandford Fleming (1827–1915), railway engineer and proponent of standard time zones
John Kenneth Galbraith (1908–2006), Ontario, California and Massachusetts academic and economist, US and Canadian diplomat
Alexander Tilloch Galt (1817–1893), politician and a Father of Confederation (Father was of Scottish ancestry)
Donald Gordon, Chmn Wartime Prices and Trade Board, Chmn and Pres Canadian National Railways, builder of Churchill Falls
Laurie Gough, Canadian-American travel writer
Hugh Graham (1848–1938), newspaper publisher
Iain Hume, Canadian international football (soccer) player
Alexander Keith, brewer (Alexander Keith's)
William Lyon Mackenzie King (1874–1950), longest serving Prime Minister of Canada
Kaylyn Kyle, Canadian footballer of Scottish descent
Avril Lavigne, Canadian singer-songwriter, mother of Scottish descent
Grace Annie Lockhart, first woman in the British empire to graduate from university (May 25, 1875)
Sir John A. Macdonald, first Prime Minister of Canada
J. E. H. MacDonald (1873-1932), painter, member of the Group of Seven
Rodney MacDonald, former Premier of Nova Scotia
Scott MacDonald, musician
William Christopher Macdonald, tobacco producer and philanthropist
Peter MacKay, Minister of National Defence
Robert Mackay (1840–1916), businessman, statesman
Alexander MacKenzie, explorer of the Canadian Northwest
Alexander Mackenzie, second Prime Minister of Canada
William Lyon Mackenzie, journalist and rebel
Alistair MacLeod, writer, recipient of the Order of Canada
Kevin S. MacLeod, current Canadian Secretary to the Queen
Agnes Macphail, first woman to sit in the House of Commons of Canada
Eric McCormack, award-winning Canadian actor, television producer and writer, best known for his role as Will Truman in the American comedy Will & Grace
Todd McFarlane, entrepreneur
James McGill (1744–1813), fur trader, merchant
Peter McGill (1789–1860), businessman, politician
William McGillivray (1764–1825), fur trader
Gavin McInnes (Born 1970), writer, actor, comedian, commentator, co-founder of Vice Media and Vice Magazine
Duncan McIntyre (1834–1894), businessman
Sarah McLachlan, musician, singer, and songwriter
Beverley McLachlin, Chief Justice of Canada
Norman McLaren (1914–1987), film animation pioneer
Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980), communication and media theorist
Bobby McMahon, football analyst for Fox Soccer Channel
Simon McTavish (1750–1804), fur trader, saw mill and flour mill operator
Colin Mochrie, actor and comedian
Henry Morgan (1819–1893), built the first department store in Canada
Donald Morrow, Ontario politician, soldier and teacher
Alice Munro, Nobel laureate author
George Murdoch, first mayor of Calgary
Anne Murray, singer, entertainer
James Naismith, inventor of basketball
Alexander Walker Ogilvie (1829–1902), miller, statesman
Roddy Piper (1954–2015), WWE wrestler
John Redpath (1796–1869), contractor, industrialist
Peter Redpath (1821–1894), businessman
Callum Keith Rennie, actor
John Robertson, sports journalist, covered Expos and Blue Jays & coined the term "Rider Pride" (son of Scots immigrant)
Jackson Santana, actor, mother of Scottish ancestry
Bernie Shaw, lead singer of Uriah Heep since 1986
George Simpson (1787–1860), executive, fur trader
Donald Alexander Smith, 1st Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal
George Stephen, 1st Baron Mount Stephen
Arran Stephens, founder of Nature's Path Foods
David Stirling (1822–1887), architect; associate architect of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts
Aden Strong, voice actor, mother of Scottish descent
Sammy Strong, voice actor, mother of Scottish descent
Tara Strong, voice actress, father from Scotland
Daniel Sutherland (1756–1832), businessman
Donald Sutherland, actor
Kiefer Sutherland, actor (grandson of NDP leader Tommy Douglas, who was born in Scotland)
Dave Thomas (born 1949), comedian and actor, Scottish-born mother
Ian Thomas (born 1950), singer and songwriter, Scottish-born mother
Justin Trudeau (born 1971), 23rd Prime Minister of Canada (his mother, Margaret, is daughter of Scots immigrant Jimmy Sinclair)
Pierre Trudeau (1919–2000), 15th Prime Minister of Canada (his mother, Grace Elliott, was of Scottish ancestry)

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External links[]

Canadian Friends of Scotland Website
Documentation of the first Scots to set foot in Canada.
Multicultural Canada website textual records, photographs and maps relating to Roderick Andrew MacDonell and the settlement of Clandonald, Alberta
Scottish Emigration Database

[auto-1] Church, College, and Clergy, Page 76, Brian J. Fraser – 1995

[2] Canada, Government of Canada, Statistics. "Statistics Canada: Ethnocultural Portrait of Canada Highlight Tables, 2006 Census". http://www12.statcan.ca/english/census06/data/highlights/ethnic/pages/Page.cfm?Lang=E&Geo=PR&Code=01&Table=2&Data=Count&StartRec=1&Sort=3&Display=All&CSDFilter=5000.

[3] "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2008-04-16. https://web.archive.org/web/20080416174029/http://www.sfu.ca/scottish/history.html. Retrieved 2017-09-11. Simon Fraser University

[4] Corporation, British Broadcasting. "BBC – History – Scottish History". http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/scottishhistory/darkages/oddities_darkages.shtml.

[5] Bumsted (981)

[6] Jonathan Dembling. "Gaelic in Canada: new evidence from an old census." In Cànan & Cultar/Language & Culture: Rannsachadh na Gàidhlig 3, edited by Wilson McLeod, James Fraser and Anja Gunderloch, 203-14. Edinburgh: Dunedin Academic Press, 2006.

[7] Rae (2005)

[auto1-8] Steve Murdoch, "Cape Breton: Canada's 'Highland' Island?" Northern Scotland 1998 18: 31-42

[9] "Mission Statement". Gaelic Council of Nova Scotia. http://www.gaelic.ca/about.html. Retrieved 14 January 2017.

[10] MacKay, Donald (1996). Scotland farewell: The people of the Hector (3, illustrated ed.). Dundurn Press Ltd. ISBN 1-896219-12-8. p. vii.

[Campey2-6061-11] Campey, Lucille H (2007). After the Hector: The Scottish Pioneers of Nova Scotia and Cape Breton 1773–1852 (2nd ed.). Toronto: National Heritage Books. ISBN 978-1-55002-770-9. pp. 60–61.

[12] Marjory Harper, "Enticing the Emigrant: Canadian Agents in Ireland and Scotland, c.1870-c.1920", Scottish Historical Review 2004 83(1): 41-58

[13] Canada 2006 Census. [1]. Accessed October 1, 2008.

[14] "Oifis Iomairtean na Gaidhlig/Office of Gaelic Affairs". Archived from the original on 2008-10-29. https://web.archive.org/web/20081029055757/http://www.gov.ns.ca/oga/aboutgaelic.asp?lang=en.

[15] "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2008-06-03. https://web.archive.org/web/20080603141336/http://www12.statcan.ca/english/census06/data/highlights/ethnic/pages/Page.cfm?Lang=E&Geo=PR&Code=01&Table=2&Data=Count&StartRec=1&Sort=3&Display=All. Retrieved 2014-05-02. .

[16] Government of Canada. Symbols of Canada — Tartans. Accessed January 13, 2008.

[17] "Jim Carrey Online • View topic – Scottish Interview & Clip". http://www.jimcarreyonline.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=75657&sid=c288b4a04f1da0728280242f21ef58de.

[18] Movie Juice Interview STV Production 2006 (Carrey states he's part Scottish on his mother's side

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