Planting thistles : Scottish islander colonization in late Victorian Canada /
"At the height of the Victorian age, governments on both sides of the Atlantic targeted Scottish crofters from the Outer Hebrides for resettlement in Western Canada. Officials singled out Hebrideans as ideal colonists, proposing schemes in British Columbia and on the Prairies that engendered hi...
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Bibliographic Details
| Main Author: |
Forest, Timothy S.
(Author) |
| Format: | Book
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| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Vancouver :
UBC Press,
[2026]
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