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Yet another great video! A novel about a Scottish family that immigrated to Nova Scotia (Cape Breton Island) is “No Great Mischief,” by Alistair MacLeod. According to the novel, when Wolfe threw the Fraser Highlanders into the breach during the Battle of The Plains of Abraham, which led to the fall of Quebec, he said “It’s no great mischief.” MacLeod’s novel, his one and only, is considered by many, including Margaret Atwood, Jane Urquhart and Wayne Johnston, as one of the great works of Canadian literature. Thanks again for another really interesting history lesson!
They always say Canadian history is boring but that’s because most only do an overview of Canadian history. Rarely does someone take the time to look at history on an individual basis. 🧐 Thanks for the video!!!😋
Again another great video sir, you show much respect for us and our culture and I appreciate that. Our original anthem says basically everything you need to know about European-Canadian culture "the thistle, shamrock, rose entwine, the maple leaf forever." The thistle being Scotland, the shamrock being Ireland, and the rose representing England. All of them that were massive building blocks in Canadian society and those contributions can still be seen into the modern era. The French were also a big part and a later version of The anthem also included a line (Lily) to represent them as well.
Love your work so much 🙏🏻 Farley Mowat wrote a book called The Farfarers based on legends of the Native Americans in Nova Scotia. My ancestors Henry St Clair & his father were travelling there and the Sinclairs have a lifelong friendship with the Mi’kmaq. Then there’s the topic of Ogam Iberian Script and the prolific inscriptions all over the place. Barry Fell “America BC”, fascinating stuff!
My family came to Maine (before it was Maine) but more likely through NovaScotia first as bond servants. Their children were born free in the new land. We became loggers and moved to (now) St. Lawrence county NY in 1760. In 1830 a town was incorporated and a map was drawn of the village. It includes a road named after my family, with 9 properties listed as members of our family. I’ve lived here ever since.
@@Goouttouchgrass My family is still all there both the MacDonalds and the Grays. They have been since the 1801 and before. I am very proud of who I am as a Canadian and to say that my family is a proud part of the people who made the country what it is today.
I am done being torn apart for this I have been working on my family history for the last six months. I do know a thing or two about Nova Scotia history.
Irish/Acadian French heritage Canadian here. Your videos are an inspiration for people to look into their family histories regardless of where you come from. Thank You very much.
Injustice brought many Scots to a land that was inhumane by their standards. Mi'kmaq people proved it to be not so inhumane as once thought and as a result, the Scots flourished! Thank you, Bruce, for a very inciteful and accurate history lesson. You are one of the best history teachers I've ever seen! Please take care now! 😊
Upvote for me,Bruce : great story,and thanks for mentioning my ancestor 'Prince' Henry Sinclair,Earl of Orkney('Prince Zichmini') and the Venetian Zeno brothers ! 👌👍
Lol😂 dear Lord don't tell me you're another idiot who thinks they taught us how to farm. Like Celts and Romans and all kinds of Europeans weren't farming for centuries before they made it to North America. SMH
@@NotLeftarded1 And of course the OP said nothing about farming - don't let that stop you from making a spectacle of yourself, though ......... SMH ..............
Hi there, English, Irish, Scottish, Danish, Indigenous Canadian ( DNA certified lol) here. Many of my European ancestors have been in Canada primarily Newfoundland, since at least the early 1700’s (as far as I have tracked so far). It is confirmed and documented and I have seen evidence of the Viking settlement in Gros Morne, on the northern tip of the island of Newfoundland. The Viking sagas were written down hundreds of years after the fact, based on stories that were passed down generation to generation. Vikings we know travelled far and wide and picked up ( kidnapped) people during their travels and made them their slaves so who knows if Eric the Red sent a couple of slaves to Gros Morne to fend for themselves before he disembarked his ship. I grew up in the Canadian province of New Brunswick and worked in the provinces of New Brunswick and in Halifax, Nova Scotia and I can say both of these provinces have many persons of Scottish ancestry. As a funny aside, many people on island of Cape Breton, which is a part of Nova Scotia, for many years felt they were an entity to themselves due to the high population of Scottish descent. I remember they would have and I think they still have , in the summertime, “The Highland Games”.. I am not familiar with all games but I do remember seeing one The Caber Toss, which if I recall correctly is the men have to toss a big pole. Lots of bagpipes and pipers. Cape Breton still has a number of Gaelic speakers and if you wish you can take classes.
I cannot believe you posted this. I was going to ask you about this part of history. Some of my ancestors came from Scotland. Mclean. They were sent from the port of Glasgow. They came from the Isle of Mull. Basically they were kicked off their land because of the rich farmers taking over the land. My ancestors landed in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. A few of them took the boat and went to Sandy Point, Newfoundland.
PS what you said about the Mi'kmaq is true. They did help a lot of people survive and learn to live off the land. You will find they also intermarried. If you can I would suggest you go to Newfoundland as well. There is a heavy presence of Scottish there. Highlands, Codroy Valley area. Macpherson, Gillis, Macinnis, are some names there. Hugh Mclean was one of the first settlers in the Codroy area. Mostly southwest coast of Newfoundland.If you can I would suggest going within the next year as our province is about to be bombarded with massive wind turbines and open mining like you have never seen. There wont be anything left in 50 years.
I’m a Mclean, from my mother’s mother’s family. They ended up in northern New Brunswick in Sharlo (Bathurst) around 150 years ago, and farmed. Perhaps we are related? There was a genealogy study done in Canada a number of years ago, and the percentage of Scottish ancestry in English speaking Canadians is quite phenomenal. Very interesting history Bruce. Love your videos.
That little clip at the beginning of the waterfall dumping onto the beach on the ocean is in Big Sur on the central coast of California (my backyard). Thanks for the nod.
cuthbert grant as well as others, married native women. thus us metis people, came into being. i'm a french, scotch cree, saulteaux, souix, ojibwa, inuit and koontenai metis.
This story got me. I not sure why but I had to stop and come back for fear of being a big jessy. Life was so hard back then. I feel so blessed to be living today, the privileges we have today as common folk were reserved for the nobility. Thank you for telling me another story, please never stop
Please tell Me a story !! Happy Holidays And Safe Travels! As I went through my DNA testing and family tree I am of this yet disenfranchised from marriage divorce changes DNA shows also miq mak and scottish and irish ei neil. This video is a HUGE pick me up on finding out what really happened. There is ALSO rumour of Knights Templar so if anyone can also help with that history Rockport Maine Thank You Kindly !! Phil W. Thank You Bruce !! I ordered 2 shirts and love your channel !! 🌹🔥⚡🎯🎨🎭💎🎩
Thank you so much for this very special video in my family’s history. I have recently found I have Scottish roots. With direct line to the Fraser’s and Mcleods Alexander Fraser and his lineage and simataneously with my Macleod of Lewis history. Came in on this ship thank you for the Fraser cemetery as I paused and took pictures of all my family members and I am updating stories gravesites in my ancestory family tree with Simon the Fox 0:07 as a direct line ancestor as well. So my family is filled with heroes immigrants and some dodgy ones. They all settled in Nova Scotia and in North Carolina. 200 years later my daughters grew up in Louisiana in Cajun culture. 1 son of mine born in St. John’s Newfoundland, my other son born in Wales. So I have a trip planned back to the highlands for a month in Scotland and want to where my forefathers walked and raised family’s. I have been tuned in to your channel for about 6 months. So thanks again. I can be reached also at tnbhuffstetler@gmail.com. Thanks again for your stories of history and so much more. You have made my research all worthwhile. Cheers from Australia Troy
With having my eldest sister in Canada and a Canadian. There is a story there. Yet here I am in Scotland. Am always interested in canada even as a nation today. Having been to Canada a few times myself. Another brilliant video Bruce thanks again.
I can't believe you're in my province walking around speaking about Scot immigration! I hope you can cover some of those who traveled on the Sarah as well
Well that was an amazing close to this video ..... showing the actual tangible connection to this story ... Frasers grave site . Possibly few locals know his family is there. I could be wrong , but at any rate , once again a perfect close to this story .
An English shilling Rare Edward VI circa 1551-1553 was found in Victoria BC in 2013 where there had been Native village back in 1551. Previously other old English coins of the time period were discovered in Oak Bay and Quadra Island of BC all were native villages back then. One theory is that Sir Francis Drake explored the BC coast on a secret mission in 1579. He was supposedly giving coins of the realm to the Native groups as proof the English had laid claim to the land. Historian Samuel Bawlf, who has long argued that Sir Francis Drake explored the B.C. coast on a secret mission in 1579 - 200 years before the arrival of Capt. James Cook. A history enthusiast in Newfoundland has discovered what may be the oldest known English coin ever found in Canada at a historical site. A gold coin is a Henry VI quarter noble. With a face value of one shilling and eight pence, the coin was minted in London between 1422 and 1427. That's about 70 years before John Cabot landed on Newfoundland's shores in 1497 after setting sail from the English port of Bristol.
great comment ☝️❤️ if you asked me i would say 👉🎤🐥 “some of my family got in trouble back in the days” 😔 and the same guy : “it’s really complicated” 🔭🐥 thank goodness for brothers like ours truly that post videos such as this . 🙏
My grandfather came over to Cape Breton in the early 1900's from Scotland. I've heard different reasons on why. But he passed away in the 80's. I never got the chance to ask him why he came over, unfortunately. All I have are the stories my father tells me of him.
Dad is from Cape Breton Island and tha Murray's came on tha Hector in 1759 fought at Culloden and had to leave Scotland because They were hunted Macphie and tha Macinnis relations came a few years later brilliant work Bruce was teary watching / listening
This is very interesting. I’m also interested in Scotts who came to the Appalachian mountains. Seems the southern mountain language accent is influenced by the Scotts. I’d love to learn more about that.
Its a Super Great Fantastic thing this Scotsman is giving pride to the people in Canada with Scottish Heritage he should be awarded the Order of Canada then that medal would actually mean something
There's no way anyone from the UK could have been prepared for Canadian weather, and it's not just the cold. The difference between the hottest and coldest temperatures ever recorded in Canada is 113 degrees Celsius, or 202 degrees Fahrenheit (record low -63 C or -81 F, record high 49.6 C or 121 F, which is actually higher than the highest temperature ever recorded in Texas). For comparison, the hottest ever recorded in the UK is 40.3 C (104.5 F), and the coldest is -27.2 C (-17 F). A Scot once joined our rugby team for a season. Rugby is a summer game out here on the prairies, for what should be obvious reasons, and he inquired of me at a practice: "How d'ye play in this HEAT?"
I love Nova scotia, but the urge to come home is to great to continue resisting. Hailing from Many bloodlines i often find myself pulled towards the two most prominent to me, Munroes and Campbells. One day.
It’s sad you didn’t get to PEI on this tour. The first Scots from Kintyre and the Hebrides arrived there in 1770, three years before the Hector brought it’s first passengers to Pictou. My ancestors were in that first wave. Their ship, the Annabella from Campbelltown, was wrecked in October 1770 just before landing in Malpeque Bay. From there the story is essentially the same as what you told in this video: their initial survival was owed to the help they recieved from the Micmac and Acadians who were already there. The interesting twist for the Scots who settled on PEI, is that they moved to.a place with the same feudal system of absentee landlords and tenant farmers that they had left behind in Scotland. The system would persist for another 100 years until PEI joined Confederation in 1873. The story of Scottish settlement in PEI is told in Lucille Campey’s book, A Very Fine Class of Immigrants (2007 Dundurn Press). It’s a great read.
Nice! Then you’ll appreciate this: In your show in Fergus last week, when you told the joke about everyone knowing your mother’s name, I couldn’t help think that is exactly what would happen in PEI. It’s a well known thing that Islanders are very much into genealogy: their own, and everyone else’s. When you introduce yourself, if they don’t already know, they’ll want to know who your parents and grandparents were. The way it comes out is “Who are your people?” There’s no getting away with using your mother’s maiden name, or your father’s birthplace as a security question in PEI.
im sorry ☝️😔🙏📈❤️🔭🐥 all i want to do is go around being nice to everyone and make the world a better place 🔥🚬🐨 it wasn’t really my fault 📝 history is really quite horrible 😔 if you asked me .. let’s make amends and make the world a better place than it was 200 years ago.. 🙏
Our poor Hector :') I laughed a little too much seeing its carcass tarped off in the background. Thank-you for duly noting both the Mi'kmaq and the Philadelphia Company -- the latter of which is often glossed over locally (despite the monument to the Betsey on Brown's Point). It's a pity you couldn't be there for New Scotland Days, but I hope you managed to get a peek in at the museum & a visit to McCulloch House while you were in town!
Indentured servants was still going on the last part of the 1800's. My grandfather, born in Ayr, and orphaned as a young man, brought his brothers and sister over as Indentured servants and worked off their indetures.
I'm from William Wallace clan..And my kin settled in nova scotia.and they are there.to this day.I grew up in Maine along with my grandparents tho.I knew about Braveheart long before there was a movie..
Madac from ancient Wales was here on the American continent before the Norsemen. Lots of physical evidence on Little Tennessee River and throughout that area.
my 2 sons dna tests come back with a french and north east scottish predominance. the french has a very specific marker with a link to 'tres rivieres' colony of 1620. i wonder if the scottish ancestry has links with early colonies as well. guess i'll have to get my results to narrow it down.
It's not canvassing the SNP need to do, but get down to real world action. Too long they've wasted opportunity, and millions of pounds. They've focussed on the frivolous; identity politics, stupid hate laws, short term gimmicks, etc. That is not what Scotland needs to gain liberation from the Westminster yoke, from that immoral arranged marriage which end in Colonial rule. The SNP have to show that they mean business for Scotland and Scots. We have, like other Countries, a needless housing crisis. So easy to sort that out, creating both employment and actual affordable renting homes run by Councils, not private investors. The NHS requires a complete overhaul, too much wasted money which should be directed to the actual function of a health care system. The roads need upgrading, a simple dedicated road tax of a mere £50 to £100 per year per vehicle would pay for that. Again, long term employment too. Our Schooling needs to be revamped and catered towards the children, not the needs of outdated modes of control. Intelligence and creativity need freedom, and that brings about innovation and endless improvements which have been stifled by restrictive schooling practices which cannot be termed education. Just a few of the immediate needs the SNP should be tending too. The SNP have to get real about what they are about. Independence will only come vie results. That is the only way to convince the doubters, the fearful, and conformists.
@@pjmoseley243 Too many settle for too little; "Oh, our Scottish NHS is performing better than England". That's no big deal when we have waiting lists hitting a year in advance, when we have people in A&E waiting 8 hours or more for treatment. Needless suffering is never acceptable. The apologists need to wake up. Nothing is impossible when those of intelligent will get down to the nitty-gritty. Something Scots used to be famed for.
Aye, too many Scots were ill-prepared for survival, but that's what becomes of habit. I'd have been eating plants; we have pretty much the same wild nutritious plants which grow in abundance in Scotland and Canada/North America.
Just a quibble but, there was no Canada when the first or the second Hector sailed; neither did Canada exist in 1803 when, at the age of 75, Alexander Fraser died. What did exist is the imperative to name and reach consensus about what a place is called. I suspect in considering, as a unit of analysis, the act of reaching consensus to name a place, much is revealed about being human.
Aye, but in a short video like this, there's no time for to get involved in pedantry. It's difficult enough to keep people's attention. I have in other videos poked fun by saying Canada didn't exist till 1982😜
LOVE THE VIDEOS I HAVE TO START WITH THAT! thanks for your great videos m8! Henri Saint Clair was in fact, the first Scotsman in Canada it is fact. The Local Aboriginal People in Nova Scotia actually saw and drew cave drawings of Saint Clairs' ships arriving and even adopted his tunic, flag and shield designs as their flag. long Before Alexander in 1621. Henri Saint Claire is extremely WELL KNOWN I Canada and a part of Canada's History. Columbus isn't even a passing mention since he never discovered anything before anyone else but rather long after others, he simply took credit for it.
"Henri Saint Claire is extremely WELL KNOWN I Canada" .... Not true. In fact, he's barely known at all. Most Canadians have some idea who Columbus was; you'd have a hard time finding one - other than yourself - who has any familiarity with St. Clair.
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Yet another great video! A novel about a Scottish family that immigrated to Nova Scotia (Cape Breton Island) is “No Great Mischief,” by Alistair MacLeod.
According to the novel, when Wolfe threw the Fraser Highlanders into the breach during the Battle of The Plains of Abraham, which led to the fall of Quebec, he said “It’s no great mischief.” MacLeod’s novel, his one and only, is considered by many, including Margaret Atwood, Jane Urquhart and Wayne Johnston, as one of the great works of Canadian literature.
Thanks again for another really interesting history lesson!
They always say Canadian history is boring but that’s because most only do an overview of Canadian history. Rarely does someone take the time to look at history on an individual basis. 🧐
Thanks for the video!!!😋
Again another great video sir, you show much respect for us and our culture and I appreciate that. Our original anthem says basically everything you need to know about European-Canadian culture "the thistle, shamrock, rose entwine, the maple leaf forever." The thistle being Scotland, the shamrock being Ireland, and the rose representing England. All of them that were massive building blocks in Canadian society and those contributions can still be seen into the modern era. The French were also a big part and a later version of The anthem also included a line (Lily) to represent them as well.
Your history lessons are always great. And so are your videos with the awesome locations you go to that helps tell the story Bruce.
Wow, thank you!
@@ScotlandHistoryTours you are welcome.
Great story telling Bruce. Thank you
it’s the truth sister ☝️ love you scottish sisters 🙏 let alone the brothers ❤
I love your work, Bruce. So well written and presented with just the right balance of humour and pathos 🌞
This was definitely worthy of a share to my social media!
Thanks
Love your work so much 🙏🏻 Farley Mowat wrote a book called The Farfarers based on legends of the Native Americans in Nova Scotia. My ancestors Henry St Clair & his father were travelling there and the Sinclairs have a lifelong friendship with the Mi’kmaq. Then there’s the topic of Ogam Iberian Script and the prolific inscriptions all over the place. Barry Fell “America BC”, fascinating stuff!
Farfarers!! Love that book!
My family came to Maine (before it was Maine) but more likely through NovaScotia first as bond servants. Their children were born free in the new land. We became loggers and moved to (now) St. Lawrence county NY in 1760. In 1830 a town was incorporated and a map was drawn of the village. It includes a road named after my family, with 9 properties listed as members of our family. I’ve lived here ever since.
Good examples of decent human beings...bought home brother instead of cow and made moms heart smile. These Scots are impressive. Thank you Bruce!!!
My 4x great grandpa helped settle Nova Scotia and his father was an Untied Empire Loyalist.
@@Goouttouchgrass My family is still all there both the MacDonalds and the Grays. They have been since the 1801 and before. I am very proud of who I am as a Canadian and to say that my family is a proud part of the people who made the country what it is today.
@@Goouttouchgrass read one of my reply
@@Goouttouchgrass I also have the written proof.
I am done being torn apart for this I have been working on my family history for the last six months. I do know a thing or two about Nova Scotia history.
Love your history stories of some of my ancestors ❤
Good to see that you are thoroughly researching the Scottish in Canada (North America) the Hector 😊
Irish/Acadian French heritage Canadian here. Your videos are an inspiration for people to look into their family histories regardless of where you come from. Thank You very much.
Vraiment cont moi ton histoire.
Injustice brought many Scots to a land that was inhumane by their standards. Mi'kmaq people proved it to be not so inhumane as once thought and as a result, the Scots flourished! Thank you, Bruce, for a very inciteful and accurate history lesson. You are one of the best history teachers I've ever seen! Please take care now! 😊
Upvote for me,Bruce : great story,and thanks for mentioning my ancestor 'Prince' Henry Sinclair,Earl of Orkney('Prince Zichmini') and the Venetian Zeno brothers ! 👌👍
Love it when you tell us a story.
My family settled in Truro NS in 1760
Very interesting. Thanks! Native peoples helped every group that settled North America.
Lol😂 dear Lord don't tell me you're another idiot who thinks they taught us how to farm. Like Celts and Romans and all kinds of Europeans weren't farming for centuries before they made it to North America. SMH
@@NotLeftarded1 And of course the OP said nothing about farming - don't let that stop you from making a spectacle of yourself, though ......... SMH ..............
@@gailsears2913 I agree
Interesting! Some of the elements of this story remind me of Outlander. I’m sure the author’s research involved Sandy’s incredible story!
Would love you to delve into the history of the Scots in New Brunswick, Canada, too! My forebears. Thanks for this great video!
Hi there, English, Irish, Scottish, Danish, Indigenous Canadian ( DNA certified lol) here. Many of my European ancestors have been in Canada primarily Newfoundland, since at least the early 1700’s (as far as I have tracked so far). It is confirmed and documented and I have seen evidence of the Viking settlement in Gros Morne, on the northern tip of the island of Newfoundland. The Viking sagas were written down hundreds of years after the fact, based on stories that were passed down generation to generation. Vikings we know travelled far and wide and picked up ( kidnapped) people during their travels and made them their slaves so who knows if Eric the Red sent a couple of slaves to Gros Morne to fend for themselves before he disembarked his ship. I grew up in the Canadian province of New Brunswick and worked in the provinces of New Brunswick and in Halifax, Nova Scotia and I can say both of these provinces have many persons of Scottish ancestry. As a funny aside, many people on island of Cape Breton, which is a part of Nova Scotia, for many years felt they were an entity to themselves due to the high population of Scottish descent. I remember they would have and I think they still have , in the summertime, “The Highland Games”.. I am not familiar with all games but I do remember seeing one The Caber Toss, which if I recall correctly is the men have to toss a big pole. Lots of bagpipes and pipers. Cape Breton still has a number of Gaelic speakers and if you wish you can take classes.
my first scottish ancestor that landed in canada is cuthbert grant although i was also related to simon fraser.
love these looks at scottish history.
Is that the same Cuthbert Grant who was involved in the battle of Seven Oaks in Manitoba?
@@suzannebudlong8376 that was my uncle. his dad was the first grant in canada.
I cannot believe you posted this. I was going to ask you about this part of history. Some of my ancestors came from Scotland. Mclean. They were sent from the port of Glasgow. They came from the Isle of Mull. Basically they were kicked off their land because of the rich farmers taking over the land. My ancestors landed in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. A few of them took the boat and went to Sandy Point, Newfoundland.
PS what you said about the Mi'kmaq is true. They did help a lot of people survive and learn to live off the land. You will find they also intermarried. If you can I would suggest you go to Newfoundland as well. There is a heavy presence of Scottish there. Highlands, Codroy Valley area. Macpherson, Gillis, Macinnis, are some names there. Hugh Mclean was one of the first settlers in the Codroy area. Mostly southwest coast of Newfoundland.If you can I would suggest going within the next year as our province is about to be bombarded with massive wind turbines and open mining like you have never seen. There wont be anything left in 50 years.
I’m a Mclean, from my mother’s mother’s family. They ended up in northern New Brunswick in Sharlo (Bathurst) around 150 years ago, and farmed. Perhaps we are related? There was a genealogy study done in Canada a number of years ago, and the percentage of Scottish ancestry in English speaking Canadians is quite phenomenal. Very interesting history Bruce. Love your videos.
That little clip at the beginning of the waterfall dumping onto the beach on the ocean is in Big Sur on the central coast of California (my backyard). Thanks for the nod.
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cuthbert grant as well as others, married native women. thus us metis people, came into being.
i'm a french, scotch cree, saulteaux, souix, ojibwa, inuit and koontenai metis.
This story got me. I not sure why but I had to stop and come back for fear of being a big jessy. Life was so hard back then. I feel so blessed to be living today, the privileges we have today as common folk were reserved for the nobility. Thank you for telling me another story, please never stop
Please tell Me a story !! Happy Holidays And Safe Travels! As I went through my DNA testing and family tree I am of this yet disenfranchised from marriage divorce changes DNA shows also miq mak and scottish and irish ei neil. This video is a HUGE pick me up on finding out what really happened. There is ALSO rumour of Knights Templar so if anyone can also help with that history Rockport Maine Thank You Kindly !! Phil W. Thank You Bruce !! I ordered 2 shirts and love your channel !! 🌹🔥⚡🎯🎨🎭💎🎩
Thank you so much for this very special video in my family’s history. I have recently found I have Scottish roots. With direct line to the Fraser’s and Mcleods Alexander Fraser and his lineage and simataneously with my Macleod of Lewis history. Came in on this ship thank you for the Fraser cemetery as I paused and took pictures of all my family members and I am updating stories gravesites in my ancestory family tree with Simon the Fox 0:07 as a direct line ancestor as well. So my family is filled with heroes immigrants and some dodgy ones. They all settled in Nova Scotia and in North Carolina. 200 years later my daughters grew up in Louisiana in Cajun culture. 1 son of mine born in St. John’s Newfoundland, my other son born in Wales. So I have a trip planned back to the highlands for a month in Scotland and want to where my forefathers walked and raised family’s. I have been tuned in to your channel for about 6 months. So thanks again. I can be reached also at tnbhuffstetler@gmail.com. Thanks again for your stories of history and so much more. You have made my research all worthwhile. Cheers from Australia Troy
With having my eldest sister in Canada and a Canadian. There is a story there. Yet here I am in Scotland. Am always interested in canada even as a nation today. Having been to Canada a few times myself. Another brilliant video Bruce thanks again.
Thanks for sharing!
I can't believe you're in my province walking around speaking about Scot immigration! I hope you can cover some of those who traveled on the Sarah as well
Well that was an amazing close to this video ..... showing the actual tangible connection to this story ... Frasers grave site .
Possibly few locals know his family is there.
I could be wrong , but at any rate , once again a perfect close to this story .
In my part of the world BC Fraser is the big river
My Mc Culloch ancestor was a baronet in Canada.
An English shilling Rare Edward VI circa 1551-1553 was found in Victoria BC in 2013 where there had been Native village back in 1551. Previously other old English coins of the time period were discovered in Oak Bay and Quadra Island of BC all were native villages back then.
One theory is that Sir Francis Drake explored the BC coast on a secret mission in 1579. He was supposedly giving coins of the realm to the Native groups as proof the English had laid claim to the land. Historian Samuel Bawlf, who has long argued that Sir Francis Drake explored the B.C. coast on a secret mission in 1579 - 200 years before the arrival of Capt. James Cook.
A history enthusiast in Newfoundland has discovered what may be the oldest known English coin ever found in Canada at a historical site. A gold coin is a Henry VI quarter noble. With a face value of one shilling and eight pence, the coin was minted in London between 1422 and 1427. That's about 70 years before John Cabot landed on Newfoundland's shores in 1497 after setting sail from the English port of Bristol.
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You're welcome
A'reyt Bruce. Interesting how, both sides of the pond, the Scots seemed to be loyal to a king, even when rebels.
great comment ☝️❤️ if you asked me i would say 👉🎤🐥 “some of my family got in trouble back in the days” 😔 and the same guy : “it’s really complicated” 🔭🐥 thank goodness for brothers like ours truly that post videos such as this . 🙏
My grandfather came over to Cape Breton in the early 1900's from Scotland. I've heard different reasons on why. But he passed away in the 80's. I never got the chance to ask him why he came over, unfortunately. All I have are the stories my father tells me of him.
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Dad is from Cape Breton Island and tha Murray's came on tha Hector in 1759
fought at Culloden and had to leave Scotland because They were hunted
Macphie and tha Macinnis relations came a few years later
brilliant work Bruce
was teary watching / listening
Scottish guy and an African are stuck on a lighthouse.
Ghana no dae that? How no! Just …. Guinea 🇬🇳 no 😂
Hector landed here in 1773 not 1759.
My grandmother was a Murray her ancestors came north to Canada as they were loyalists ❤😊
Good Morning all fellw little SHT's... 😃
Canadian.
Thanks buddy
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I'm really shocked the first Scotts didn't show up in Canada till that late. My first Scottish ancestor was in America in 1624. 😮
I'm not sure that's quite what I said. Check out my video on Nova Scotia
Great story well told ya saintee ya coyp thank you again for saving my sanity (ish)
This is very interesting. I’m also interested in Scotts who came to the Appalachian mountains. Seems the southern mountain language accent is influenced by the Scotts. I’d love to learn more about that.
One t in Scots. Thanks for your request, but it seems a little outside my expertise
Both Swedish males and Native American males have the Q-m242 Y-DNA. So there is a very long connection between Scandinavia and North America.
Always great! Welcome to British Columbia
Its a Super Great Fantastic thing this Scotsman is giving pride to the people in Canada with Scottish Heritage he should be awarded the Order of Canada then that medal would actually mean something
So you don't think it means anything? What website messed you up? Fringe? Derp
Pierre Poilievre is against reproductive rights for women, legal buds, and gay marriage.
We are getting truth about Canadians history. Not from schools. 😊
@@HopeLaFleur1975 what does it take to convince you that what your being told is the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth?
From what I've seen, I don't think there's any shortage of 'pride' among 'the people in Canada with Scottish Heritage' ...!
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There's no way anyone from the UK could have been prepared for Canadian weather, and it's not just the cold. The difference between the hottest and coldest temperatures ever recorded in Canada is 113 degrees Celsius, or 202 degrees Fahrenheit (record low -63 C or -81 F, record high 49.6 C or 121 F, which is actually higher than the highest temperature ever recorded in Texas).
For comparison, the hottest ever recorded in the UK is 40.3 C (104.5 F), and the coldest is -27.2 C (-17 F).
A Scot once joined our rugby team for a season. Rugby is a summer game out here on the prairies, for what should be obvious reasons, and he inquired of me at a practice: "How d'ye play in this HEAT?"
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He landed in Sunnyvale Trailer Park
I love Nova scotia, but the urge to come home is to great to continue resisting. Hailing from Many bloodlines i often find myself pulled towards the two most prominent to me, Munroes and Campbells.
One day.
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There's also been Evidence of Early Irish in north America before Scandinavians and Celtic Iberians
It’s sad you didn’t get to PEI on this tour. The first Scots from Kintyre and the Hebrides arrived there in 1770, three years before the Hector brought it’s first passengers to Pictou.
My ancestors were in that first wave. Their ship, the Annabella from Campbelltown, was wrecked in October 1770 just before landing in Malpeque Bay. From there the story is essentially the same as what you told in this video: their initial survival was owed to the help they recieved from the Micmac and Acadians who were already there.
The interesting twist for the Scots who settled on PEI, is that they moved to.a place with the same feudal system of absentee landlords and tenant farmers that they had left behind in Scotland. The system would persist for another 100 years until PEI joined Confederation in 1873.
The story of Scottish settlement in PEI is told in Lucille Campey’s book, A Very Fine Class of Immigrants (2007 Dundurn Press). It’s a great read.
We did go to PEI
Nice!
Then you’ll appreciate this:
In your show in Fergus last week, when you told the joke about everyone knowing your mother’s name, I couldn’t help think that is exactly what would happen in PEI. It’s a well known thing that Islanders are very much into genealogy: their own, and everyone else’s. When you introduce yourself, if they don’t already know, they’ll want to know who your parents and grandparents were. The way it comes out is “Who are your people?” There’s no getting away with using your mother’s maiden name, or your father’s birthplace as a security question in PEI.
im sorry ☝️😔🙏📈❤️🔭🐥 all i want to do is go around being nice to everyone and make the world a better place 🔥🚬🐨 it wasn’t really my fault 📝 history is really quite horrible 😔 if you asked me .. let’s make amends and make the world a better place than it was 200 years ago.. 🙏
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Our poor Hector :') I laughed a little too much seeing its carcass tarped off in the background.
Thank-you for duly noting both the Mi'kmaq and the Philadelphia Company -- the latter of which is often glossed over locally (despite the monument to the Betsey on Brown's Point).
It's a pity you couldn't be there for New Scotland Days, but I hope you managed to get a peek in at the museum & a visit to McCulloch House while you were in town!
Um, you have heard of St. Brendan.
Not a Scot but European
...so nothing to do with this video then🤔
Indentured servants was still going on the last part of the 1800's. My grandfather, born in Ayr, and orphaned as a young man, brought his brothers and sister over as Indentured servants and worked off their indetures.
Bydand forever
But isnt it true that every man over the age 21 called Colin were rounded up and transported to Canada.
This was the way that Canada was Colinised.
I'm from William Wallace clan..And my kin settled in nova scotia.and they are there.to this day.I grew up in Maine along with my grandparents tho.I knew about Braveheart long before there was a movie..
do you have any idea how many alexander frasers there were?
Erik the Viking dude went to Scotland after and had a baby there
and here I thought it was my great. great gran .. a Robertson who went to Halifax in 1756 to attack Quebec
Madac from ancient Wales was here on the American continent before the Norsemen. Lots of physical evidence on Little Tennessee River and throughout that area.
Hawkeye the Noo .
my 2 sons dna tests come back with a french and north east scottish predominance. the french has a very specific marker with a link to 'tres rivieres' colony of 1620. i wonder if the scottish ancestry has links with early colonies as well.
guess i'll have to get my results to narrow it down.
Hi Bruce, have you, or ever thought of, doing a story about Peter Grant the last jacobite? (Auld Dubrach)
Already done
why not get the SNP to start canvassing in the English borders Bruce?
It's not canvassing the SNP need to do, but get down to real world action. Too long they've wasted opportunity, and millions of pounds. They've focussed on the frivolous; identity politics, stupid hate laws, short term gimmicks, etc. That is not what Scotland needs to gain liberation from the Westminster yoke, from that immoral arranged marriage which end in Colonial rule.
The SNP have to show that they mean business for Scotland and Scots. We have, like other Countries, a needless housing crisis. So easy to sort that out, creating both employment and actual affordable renting homes run by Councils, not private investors.
The NHS requires a complete overhaul, too much wasted money which should be directed to the actual function of a health care system.
The roads need upgrading, a simple dedicated road tax of a mere £50 to £100 per year per vehicle would pay for that. Again, long term employment too.
Our Schooling needs to be revamped and catered towards the children, not the needs of outdated modes of control. Intelligence and creativity need freedom, and that brings about innovation and endless improvements which have been stifled by restrictive schooling practices which cannot be termed education.
Just a few of the immediate needs the SNP should be tending too.
The SNP have to get real about what they are about. Independence will only come vie results. That is the only way to convince the doubters, the fearful, and conformists.
@@haraldtheyounger5504 you are spot on with your analysis well done, and they would have been the envy of the rest of the UK
@@pjmoseley243 Too many settle for too little; "Oh, our Scottish NHS is performing better than England". That's no big deal when we have waiting lists hitting a year in advance, when we have people in A&E waiting 8 hours or more for treatment. Needless suffering is never acceptable. The apologists need to wake up. Nothing is impossible when those of intelligent will get down to the nitty-gritty. Something Scots used to be famed for.
Simon fraser that name is very familiar to anyone in British Columbia Canada .is it the same person or a decendant?
Aye, too many Scots were ill-prepared for survival, but that's what becomes of habit. I'd have been eating plants; we have pretty much the same wild nutritious plants which grow in abundance in Scotland and Canada/North America.
Canadian by birth. Scottish by the grace of God.
I could tell you who the first Scotsman was but it’ll cost you a fiver
Aye, and the wives....coping, and giving birth in those conditions...
JImmy
Was the "laughing his head off" story true about that last Fraser lord after his execution?
They were from Scotland 😂
Just a quibble but, there was no Canada when the first or the second Hector sailed; neither did Canada exist in 1803 when, at the age of 75, Alexander Fraser died. What did exist is the imperative to name and reach consensus about what a place is called. I suspect in considering, as a unit of analysis, the act of reaching consensus to name a place, much is revealed about being human.
Aye, but in a short video like this, there's no time for to get involved in pedantry. It's difficult enough to keep people's attention. I have in other videos poked fun by saying Canada didn't exist till 1982😜
@@ScotlandHistoryTours You gotta be right about 1982 but 1949’s also a big piece of the puzzle. Great channel, always a laugh and something new.
I bet you don't know the TRUE reason it's called Canada.
It was a Scot's prayer to God, hoping for success.
Oh, Can I, father (Da).
LOVE THE VIDEOS I HAVE TO START WITH THAT! thanks for your great videos m8! Henri Saint Clair was in fact, the first Scotsman in Canada it is fact. The Local Aboriginal People in Nova Scotia actually saw and drew cave drawings of Saint Clairs' ships arriving and even adopted his tunic, flag and shield designs as their flag. long Before Alexander in 1621. Henri Saint Claire is extremely WELL KNOWN I Canada and a part of Canada's History. Columbus isn't even a passing mention since he never discovered anything before anyone else but rather long after others, he simply took credit for it.
"Henri Saint Claire is extremely WELL KNOWN I Canada" .... Not true. In fact, he's barely known at all. Most Canadians have some idea who Columbus was; you'd have a hard time finding one - other than yourself - who has any familiarity with St. Clair.
Viking is a verb. Northmen is what they were called.
...and yet it's spelled with a capita... which makes it a proper noun. I'll go with that
Thanks!
Ah thanks so much
Thanks!
Huge thanks to YOU