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Emigration:
| See books, The Last Stronghold
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Tocher, No. 42, 1990. Overseas edition.
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"Parlez Moi de Bretagne, d'Ireland, d'Ecosse"
in C.B.C. Journal, Montreal, 1991, pp. 58-59 [in French].
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"Gaelic Song in Eastern Canada: Twentieth Century Reflections",
in Folksongs: Chansons, a special edition of Canadian Folklore
Canadien, Vol. 14, 2, Ottawa, Canada, 1992.
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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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