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is a book of popular history, The author opens the book by expressing the idea that the Highlanders expelled from their ancestral lands because of the Clearances were Canada's first refugees.
In a succession of vignettes and anecdotes, McGoogan shows

the horrors of the Clearances, I knew very little about the Clearances, so this book was an interesting introduction, though the picture is in no way complete, It's the sort of book that makes me want to watch Youtube videos about everything and anything Scottish, I had heard of the Highland clearances, but never appreciated their brutality the process in which people were stripped of everything they owned and banished from their ancestral homelands.
It truly was a form of ethnic cleansing, As a proud Canadian descendant of three separate Highlander families, I found myself personally outraged on behalf of my longago antecedents, I can now claim that my own family members were among Canada's first refugees, Ken McGoogan's journalistic background shines in this account, not only because of his research but also his colourful and entertaining writing style, He has written more than a dozen books, This latest constitutes yet another important contribution to our understanding of Canadian history, A very well written history of the how the Highlanders were chased from their homes in Scotland and forced to move to Canada under the harshest conditions imaginable.
McGoogan's books are a treat, If it's written by Ken McGoogan read it!! Id give it,if I could. Rspkt to my persecuted ancestors, Why did it take so long for them to invent chimneys The black houses sound so nasty, I really enjoyed the first and last quarters of the book the analysis of Highlander life and the settling of what would be Manitoba were fascinating and compelling stories.
But the middle half of the book felt like a combination of family album and repetitive tales about the Clearances that felt like a repeating record.
Combined with my natural antipathy re: boredom with preConfederation Canadian history, there's only so much of this book I find that I can love, though I appreciate the scholarship.
Bestselling author Ken McGoogan tells the story of those courageous Scots who, ruthlessly evicted from their ancestral homelands, were sent to Canada in coffin ships, where they would battle hardship, hunger and even murderous persecution.


After the Scottish Highlanders were decimated at theBattle of Culloden, the British government banned kilts and bagpipes and set out to destroy a clan system that for centuries had sustained a culture, a language and a unique way of life.
The Clearances, or forcible evictions, began when landlordsamong them traitorous clan chieftainsrealized they could increase their incomes dramatically by driving out tenant farmers and dedicating their estates to sheep.


Flight of the Highlanders: Canadas First Refugees intertwines two main narratives, The first is that of the Clearances themselves, during which some,Highlanders were drivensome of them burned out, others beaten unconsciousfrom lands occupied by their forefathers for hundreds of years.
The second narrative focuses on resettlement, The refugees, frequently misled by false promises, battled impossible conditions wherever they arrived, from the forests of Nova Scotia to the winter barrens of northern Manitoba.


Between thes and thes, tens of thousands of dispossessed and destitute Highlanders crossed the Atlantic, Those who survived became Canadas first refugeesprototypes for the refugees we see arriving today from all around the world,

 

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