Scotland Farewell by Donald MacKay
$19.95
This is the story of the Highland Scots who sailed to Pictou, Nova Scotia, in 1773 on the Hector and who pioneered the large-scale emigration of Scots to Nova Scotia. They came for many reasons: the famine of the previous spring, the pressures of population growth, intolerable rent increases, trouble with the law, the hunger of landless men to own land of their own. But when the settlers arrived at Pictou after an appalling storm-tossed crossing in the hold of the old brig Hector, they found they had been deceived.
Author: Donald MacKay (soft cover)
