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Emigration:

See books, The Last Stronghold (1989) and Oatmeal and the Catechism (1998)

Tocher, No. 42, 1990. Overseas edition.

"Parlez Moi de Bretagne, d'Ireland, d'Ecosse" in C.B.C. Journal, Montreal, 1991, pp. 58-59 [in French].

"Gaelic Song in Eastern Canada: Twentieth Century Reflections", in Folksongs: Chansons, a special edition of Canadian Folklore Canadien, Vol. 14, 2, Ottawa, Canada, 1992.


Recorded for Ottawa's National Museum in 1976, Christie MacArthur, born in Quebec in 1888:

My father was born in Scotland... on the Isle of Lewis... Well... I think he was fifteen years [old] when he came to Canada ...he was herding cattle, that's about all I heard. [laughs] Sheep or cattle, I don't know....-but I think they were encouraged to leave...Well, they were kind of forced to leave…

Alex MacIver, added that babies were even born on the boat: "My grandfather was born on the way across ... in 1851. And there was three born here afterwards... Duine gun dùthaich, they used to say-a man without a country."

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