Catholic Highland Scots and the Colonisation of Prince Edward Island and Cape Breton Island, 1772–1830
The major socio-economic changes that swept through the Highlands and Islands over the course of the eighteenth century resulted in the transatlantic migration of thousands of people to the region that would become the Canadian Maritime Provinces between 1772 and the 1850s. Since there was no one do...
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| Language: | English |
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Edinburgh University Press
2020
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| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474459037.003.0006 |
| Summary: | The major socio-economic changes that swept through the Highlands and Islands over the course of the eighteenth century resulted in the transatlantic migration of thousands of people to the region that would become the Canadian Maritime Provinces between 1772 and the 1850s. Since there was no one dominant established church, the Catholic migrants among them were determined to imbed Catholicism as a central pillar of their new communities. This chapter considers Highland migration to Prince Edward Island and Cape Breton Island and how settlement patterns were linked with the growth of a distinctively Scottish form of Catholicism. The focus on Catholicism throws into sharp relief how Scottish Highland Catholics participated in the extension of Britain’s imperial authority. |
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