Emigration from Scotland. CANADA Many thousands of new immigrants to Upper Canada (western part of the British Colony of Quebec) had their passage paid for by local governments eager to unburden themselves of their poor. Three of the largest such schemes have been well documented. The first involved approximately 4,000 out-of-work weavers and artisans from the greater Glasgow area who arrived in Lanark County, Upper Canada, in 1820-21. They joined a group of military emigrants who had arrived in 1816 to form a large, stable, loyal population of mostly Scottish protestant settlers. A good reference on the subject is Carol Bennett's The Lanark Society Settlers. Cape Breton, now part of Nova Scotia in Canada was the destination of more Hebridean Scots than any other part of the then British Empire. There were to be emigrants from England and Ireland in Gabarus and Margaree, and Acadian settlers in Cheticamp and Isle Madame, but otherwise, Cape Breton was to become another Hebrides, on the other side of the Atlantic. (part one) and (part two). In 1772 the first organised emigration from the Hebrides to Canada took place, not on the 'Hector' to Pictou in Nova Scotia as is usually assumed, but on the 'Alexander' to Prince Edward Island. For more information please CLICK HERE. Children sent to Canada - a guide to help find home children ancestors sent overseas, 100,000 of whom were sent to Canada between 1870-1948. Library and Archives Canada - have an index of over 600,000 soldiers, many of whom had previously emigrated from Britain and who joined the Canadian Expeditionary Force in the First World War. Nanaimo Family History Society Passenger Lists Indexing Project - the manifests of ships arriving at Canadian Ports listing passengers have been preserved on microfilm at Library and Archives Canada. The aim is to index arrivals at Halifax and Quebec (Montreal is included in the Port of Quebec) from 1900 to about 1921 when the passenger lists were discontinued for a time in favour of the form 30A. Quebec Ports for the periods 10 Nov 1907 listings from to 13 Oct 1910 has been completed and the index, comprising of 319,015 listings from 656 ship arrivals, are shown on these pages. Currently the project is indexing Quebec arrivals from 1907 and is working back to 1900. Quebec City and Montreal were used April-November, but in winter, when the St.Lawrence River froze, the ports of St John, New Brunswick, and Halifax, Nova Scotia, were used. www.lostcousins.com - claims to be the only family history site able to match you with others researching the same ancestors. Enter your ancestors and other relatives from the Canada 1881, British 1881 or US 1880 Census - then click the search button. AUSTRALIA Large Scale Emigration to Australia after 1832 UNITED STATES The earliest major emigration from the Western Isles of Scotland was to Virginia and the Carolinas, but this was not, as it is often pictured, the flight of impoverished and demoralised peasantry, forced to leave their land. On the contrary, it was a well-prepared move by some of the wealthier classes in the Highlands and Islands to set up a New Highlands in a New World. For more information please CLICK HERE. The first migration to the New England Colonies - in 1718, the first organized migration of Scots and Irish-born Presbyterian people left the north of Ireland on their way to a new life in the New England colonies in North America. The website has sections on genealogy, as well as links to further information on travel and on Ulster and Scots heritage. CarolinaScots.com - an historical and genealogical study of over 100 years of emigration to the Carolinas. If the above link does not work, try the link HERE through the internet archive WayBackMachine website. EllisIsland.org - very useful for tracing Scots who emigrated to the USA. www.lostcousins.com - claims to be the only family history site able to match you with others researching the same ancestors. Enter your ancestors and other relatives from the Canada 1881, British 1881 or US 1880 Census - then click the search button. IRELAND Most movement between the two countries was from Ireland to Scotland. Although not strictly emigration, we have a page with inscriptions from the Church of the Immaculate Conception, Bundoran and the Old Abbey Cemetery, Donegal Town, both in Country Donegal. GENERAL National Archives of Scotland emigration factsheet - factsheet is in .pdf format file. Right-click the link ("save target as...") and save to desktop. Once there click .pdf folder to access. Genealogy in The Outer Hebrides - Over the last three centuries many thousands of people emigrated from the Western Isles or Hebrides of Scotland, and a large part of the work at Co Leis Thu? involves trying to trace the earlier history of these emigrants, and making the attempt to link them to families presently in the Hebrides. www.ambaile.org.uk - the Highland Council's bilingual website. Covers the history and culture of the Scottish Highlands and Islands. Highlands and Islands Emigration Society - information on the society and their searchable 1852-1857 passenger lists as well as a Highlands and Islands map of 1847. Scots-Irish And the Clearances - the movement of people between Scotland and Ireland and onward emigration to North America, Australia and New Zealand. Scottish Emigrants - the Scottish Archive Network assists genealogists access the online written history of Scotland. GENUKI pages on British and Irish emigration and immigration The Ships List - has more than 1800 pages devoted to passenger lists. Most relate to voyages to the USA, Canada, Australia and South Africa. The site is fully searchable and definitely worth a view. The Scottish Emigration Database - currently contains the records of over 21,000 passengers who embarked at Glasgow and Greenock for non-European ports between 1 January and 30 April 1923, and at other Scottish ports between 1890 and 1960. Scottish Emigration history HappyHaggis.co.uk ©