Highland Settler: A Portrait of the Scottish Gael in Cape Breton and Eastern Nova Scotia
- ISBN-10
- 192690835X
- ISBN-13
- 9781926908359
- Series
- Highland Settler
- Category
- Celts
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2014
- Author
- Charles William Dunn
Description
At the core of Charles W. Dunn's pioneering work with the Canadian Gaelic-speaking community in the twentieth century, Highland Settler is the story of immigration, rural settlement, and the later dispersion to the industrial world--a ...
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Other editions
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- 2003
- 182 pages
- Paperback
- Wreck Cove, N.S. : Breton Books
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- 1968
- 179 pages
- Paperback
- University of Toronto Press
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- 1953
- 179 pages
- Paperback
- University of Toronto Press
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