NOTES

Foreword

John LePage, in Hon. Senator Macdonald, “Scottish Associations in Prince Edward Island,” The Prince Edward Island Magazine, Vol. 1, (Charlotettown: The Examiner Publishing Company, March, 1899 - February, 1901), p. 425.

This study considers primarily the Highland Scot. There were few Lowland emigrants to the Island, and those who did settle generally didn’t seem to espouse the same fervour for their homeland or the same bonds of kinship as the Highlanders. However, .the Lowlanders will be discussed from time to time, especially during the section on Highland/Lowland increased mutual respect at the

end of Chapter 1.

Chapter 1

This is a verse from “Prince Edward Isle, Adieu” — a song generally attributed to King’s County songmaker Lawrence Doyle (see Edward D. Ives, Lawrence Doyle: The Farmer Poet of Prince Edward Island, (Orono, Maine: University of Maine Press, 1971) ). However, a claim has recently been made for Prince County songmaker James H. Fitzgerald (see John Cousins, “James H. Fitzgerald and “Prince Edward Isle, Adieu,” in The Island Magazine, Number Eight, Spring - Summer 1980, (Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island Heritage Foundation, 1980) ). The debate is as yet unresolved.

From a poem entitled “The Canadian Boat Song” and attributed to Dr. David MacBeth Moir, in “Noctes Ambrosianoe No. XLVI,” Blackwood’s Magazine, Vol. 26, September 1829, p. 400; also in Edward McCurdy, A Literary Enigma. The Canadian Boat Song: Its Authorship and Associations, (Stirling, Scotland: Eneas MacKay, 1935), pp. 18-19.

Earl of Selkirk, Observations on the Present State of the Highlands of Scotland, with a View of the Causes and Probable Consequences of Emigration, (London: Longman, Hurst, Rees and Ormo, 1805), p. 39.

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