10.

11.

12. 13. 14. 15.

16.

Patrick C.T. White(ed.), Lord Selkirk’s Diary, 1803-1804: A Journal of His Travels in British North America and. the Nor- theastern United States, (Toronto: The Champlain Society, 1958), p. x; Earl of Selkirk, Observations...., op. cit. p. 12.

Earl of Selkirk, 0bservations...., op. cit., p. 19.

Earl of Selkirk, Observations...., op. cit., pp. 11, 21; W. Stanford Reid (ed.), The Scottish Tradition in Canada, (Toronto: Mc- Clelland and Stewart in association with the Multiculturalism Program, Department of the Secretary of State of Canada and the Publishing Centre, Supply and Services Canada, 1976), pp. 3, 8.

W. Stanford Reid (ed.), The Scottish Tradition in Canada, op. cit., pp. 8-9.

Earl of Selkirk, 0n Emigration and the State of the Highlands, (London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1805), p. 23.

Ibid., p. 23.

Earl of Selkirk, Observations...., op. cit., p. 21; White, Lord Selkirk’s Diary, op. cit., pp. x-xi.

John Prebble, The' Highland Clearances, (Hammondsworth, England: Penguin Books Ltd., 1963), p. 18.

Prebble, op. cit., pp. 17—18. Earl of Selkirk, 0bservati0ns...., op. cit., p. xi. Ibid., pp. 48-50, 56-57.

This wave of emigration began around 1770, concurrent with the final break-down of the feudal clan system. However, various emigrations to America had been organized for some years previous, the first one believed to have been located in North Carolina in 1739. Most of the succeeding groups—including the first of the great migrations in the 17705 — were sent to the same colony, up until 1776 when the outbreak of the American Revolu— tion made necessary (if the settlers’ ties of allegiance with the mother country were to be preserved) the transferral of all future emigrants to the British North American colonies. Malcolm A. Macqueen, Skye Pioneers and “The Island, ” (Winnipeg: Stove] Co., 1929), pp. 11-12.

Prebble, op. cit., p. 19.

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