Flight of the Highlanders : the making of Canada /

Bestselling author Ken McGoogan tells the story of those courageous Scots who, ruthlessly evicted from their ancestral homelands, were sent to Canada in coffin ships, where they would battle hardship, hunger and even murderous persecution. McGoogan intertwines two main narratives. The first is that...

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Main Author: McGoogan, Kenneth, 1947- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Toronto : Patrick Crean Editions, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers Ltd., [2019]
Edition:First edition.
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505 0 |a Part 1 : The Gaelic world -- Knoydart Clearances -- View from Finlaggan -- The old way of life -- Battle of Culloden -- Highland Regiments -- Part 2 : Omens of resistance -- Ship of the people -- Year of the sheep -- Road to Culrain -- Dunrobin Castle -- Part 3 : Atlantic Arrivals -- Voyage of the Hector -- A discovery of logs -- The Pictou Connection -- PEI Beachhead -- A dance called America -- Part 4 : Barbarous Clearances -- Croick Church -- The most hated man in Scotland -- Raasay, North Uist and Skye -- Back to the future -- Return to Knoydart -- Massacre of the Rosses -- Part 5 : Western travails -- From Culbokie to the Pacific -- Creating Red River Colony -- The two razings -- Highlanders rise again -- Part 6 : Upper Canadian pioneers -- The Talbot fiefdom -- The MacNab debacle -- John Galt's legacy -- Three William Frasers. 
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