Bengough and Carlyle

• Published in: University of Toronto Quarterly
• Main Author: Keys
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress) 1932
• Subjects: General Arts and Humanities; Prince Edward Islands
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/utq.2.1.49; https://utpjournals.press/doi/pdf/10.3138/utq.2.1.49

"Only as the gaseous-chaotic Appendix to that aqueous-chaotic Volume can the contents of the Six Bags hover round us, and portions thereof be incorporated with our delineation of it". Sartor, Bk. I, Ch. XI.Canada has been called the Scotland of North America. Its geographical position in the northern half of the continent, with the great English-speaking republic to the south of it, would suggest the comparison. Historical facts bear it out. For more than two hundred years the Hudson's Bay Company has drawn its factors mainly from Scotland, so that even before Quebec was captured by Wolfe and his Highlanders "that true North" already had a Scottish infusion in its population. Many of those Highlanders settled in Quebec and intermarrying with the French habitants increased the Scottish element. The Selkirk settlement, the Gaels of Glengarry and of Cape Breton and Prince Edward Islands added to the number. And the climax is capped by Nova Scotia with its traditions of Scottish knighthood and its claims on a foothold in Edinburgh Castle. Moreover, partly from loyalty to the British crown, partly from their well known clannishness, the Scotch when emigrating to America, seem to have preferred Canada to the United States.