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One People Two Islands: The historic entanglement of the islands of Eigg, Scotland, and Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, 1770-1830
551 2541/2
Description One People Two Islands: The historic entanglement of the islands of Eigg, Scotland, and Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, 1770-1830
Date 2024 to 2025
Collection Records of settlement of Scottish Diaspora in Canada
Catalogue Number 551 2541/2
Category All Other
Scope and Content This record relied on social, cultural, and material evidence of settlement at An Gleann Mór (Rear Beaver Cove) on Cape Breton Island. The settling people were mostly but not exclusively from the Isle of Barra, one of the outer Hebrides. In addition to considering the evidence of settlement, specifically focusing on the foundations of some of the homesteads that were constructed between the community’s establishment in the late 1820s and 1919 when it was ultimately abandoned, there was a focus on using this community to learn more about the Highland Catholic dimension in out-migration. Connected with all of this is the displacement of the Mi’kmaq people as tens of thousands of Scottish people arrived in the first half of the nineteenth century. This project synthesizes this complex and multilayered past to share resources and strengthen existing heritage and relations between Atlantic Canada and Scotland.
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