PUSH/PULL

• PULL

  • Government schemes encouraged emigration with cheap fares to boost the numbers of British settlers in Empire countries.
  • Guidebooks to help emigrants, such as ‘Hints on Emigration to Upper Canada’ were produced along with posters with information and encouragement for potential Scottish emigrants.
  • Scots were encouraged to emigrate due to the help offered by charities and societies. 
• PUSH

  • Many tenants had no security of tenure so were easily evicted by landlords and made homeless.
  • Some landlords, eg Dukes of Sutherland and Argyll, paid crofters and tenants to leave and effectively left them no choice but to take it.