canada
Cards (6)
- CANADA : ECONOMIC
- Scots who emigrated often had skills which were in demand in Canada, which meant they prospered, particularly farmers, granite workers, stonemasons, handloom weavers and seamen.
- Scots had a major impact on the development of transport systems in Canada. For example Sanford Fleming, a Scot, was the main engineer on the Canadian Pacific Railway, and another Scot, George Stephen, at the Bank of Montreal helped finance it.
- CANADA : ECONOMIC
- Scots were often relatively well educated which meant took on leadership roles in their new communities eg in education, politics and finance.
- Many Scots had an entrepreneurial attitude and set up their own businesses which meant that there were role models of Scots who became wealthy.
- CANADA : CULTURE/RELIGION
- Bagpipe playing, whisky tasting and ceilidhs are popular in Canadian society and remain so today.
- John A Macdonald emigrated from Scotland as a boy and rose to became Canada’s first Prime Minster, helping to shape Canada as it is known today.
- CANADA: CULTURE/RELIGION
- Scots contributed to the religious development of Canada through the Church of Scotland. Many Protestant churches were established and they became the centre of their communities.
- Scottish enthusiasm for education and reading resulted in the development of universities such as McGill University. In 1827, a Scot named James Strachan founded the University of Toronto.
- CANADA : NATIVE SOCIETIES
- Scots met the native peoples of Canada when they worked in the Hudson Bay Company. Many immigrants married native people and the children from these marriages were known as Metis people.
- The relationship between native people, Scottish immigrants and Metis people was positive as they worked together to help trade flourish.
- CANADA : NATIVE SOCIETIES
- However, not all Scots were respectful and some forced the natives or Metis people off their land and viewed them as inferior. The Government took land from native people and many Scots were the beneficiaries.