The People's Clearance: Highland Emigration to British North America, 1770-1815
- ISBN-10
- 0887553826
- ISBN-13
- 9780887553820
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 305
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1982-01-15
- Publisher
- Univ. of Manitoba Press
- Author
- J.M. Bumsted
Description
This is a revisionist account of Highland Scottish emigration to what is now Canada, in the formative half century before Waterloo.
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