Scottish immigrants to Canada

Good luck to you. Canadians are wonderful folks on the whole, even the Froggies.

I've seen some incredibly cheap land in the Nova Scotia area recently - at least as compared to rural New York state land. I've been temped to buy some - but I have no interest in being a Canadian, or an out-of-country land owner. Check out Dignam Land (dignam dot com ) Company and look at the some of large parcels or Canadian land.

Interesting note in regard to French Canadians and the Scottish in Port Royal, Acadia, New Scotland. Many French Canadians were held as prisoners and slaves - and forced to farm and produce food for the Scots in "New Scotland."
This includes part of my family. My very distant grandmother is a hero (heroin?) in French Canadian history books because she stood up to the Scots - and led a bunch of Kanucks out of New Scotland and into Nicolet, Québec and Mount Royal (Montréal). Nicolet is known to be the one place French Canadians who fled New Scotland, felt safe in Canada. From what I've read, many other French Canadians at that time regarded the captive French Canadians in New Scotland as traitors - since many fed the Scots and did not stand up to them. For that reason, many - after fleeing - did not feel welcome in Canada - and many wound up in New Orleans as "Cajuns" - derived from "Acadiens." Here's a bit of history on my many-gs-grandmother, Cécile Boudreau. It is from the dictionary for French-Canadian Biography:

Having escaped the massive and cruel deportation of 1755, Cécile Boudreau, her husband, and her children joined about
200 Acadian families who scattered into the woods bordering the
Memramcook Shepody, and Petitcodiac rivers (N.B.). Fortunately these
families were able to count on the aid of missionary FrançoisLe Guerne*
and of Charles Deschamps* de Boishébert, a captain in the colonial
regular troops. The two men worked together to ensure the survival of
the Acadians, provied for their sustenance, and to organize their
resistance to the British. Forseeing the second phase of the expulsion, which would be carried
out in 1758, many of the families, including
Cécile Boudreau's, moved up the coast to Miramichi in 1757. They were
exhausted, and suffered from starvation as a result of poor crops and
from epidemics. Several of them then resigned themselves to following
Boishébert's troops, which had been recalled to Québec for the winter of
1757-58. The situation at Québec seemed little brighter. There was a dearth
of suppliess and a severe famine. The Acadians had to make do with cod
and rotten meat. According to the testimony of several persons, these
poor living conditions brought about the death of a number of Acadians. On 9 June 1758, amid the general gloom and inactivity, Cécile Boudreau
had to bury her husband, who had fallen victim to the smallpox epidemic
raging at the time. A month earlier she had done the same for her son
Jean, barely eight years of age, and four days after her husband's
interment she buried one of her daughters. It was for such reasons that the Acadian refugeess then sought to
flee Québec. Some joined Le Guerne, who had become parish priest of
Saint-François, on île d'Orléans. Others settled in the Beauce or in
the regions of Saint-Joachim and Bellechasse. In 1758 a large number
went to Saint-Grégoire(Bécancour); others, including Cécile Boudreau's
family, chose Nicolet. This locality, which their missionaries and the
Abenakis had drawn to their attention, turned out to be a good place for
a settlement. It was situatied near the St. Lawrence, which gave access
to the gulf and to Acadia, where everyone hoped to live once again. The
region offered an abundance of woods and lakes that enabled them to
ensure their subsistence; moreover it was remote and tranquility was
easily found. When along with other Pitres and Boudreaus, Orillon-Champagnes,
Gauders, Laurts, Melancons, Bastaraches, Commeaus, and
Rouisse-Languedocs, Cécile Boudreau arrived in this new setting to find
fresh hope and take root, she still had five children with her, one of
them, François, would receive a commission later as captain in the
militia. She married Pierre Pellerin in 1762 and was widowed 30 years
later. She apparently reached the age of 97, still strong, lucid, and
courageous. An unfortunate fall then forced her to take to her bed. After 18 days during which she was willing to drink "only a little water
and two shots of rum," she died. A long way from Nicolet, the QUEBEC GAZETTE, a major paper of the
province, printed a paragraph about this strong and incomparable woman
which formed a longer and better tribute than any cold tombstone ccould
offer. It told of the circumstances of her death and concluded: "this
venerable Acadian constantly retained all her mental faculties with
remarkable freshness and good health until the accident which brought
her to the grave."

Real estate prices will be the most favourable in the Maritimes, folks will be quite friendly, we think polution is min., however the air flow across North America is west to east, goods trucked in are costly and the winters are something not found very desirable by most Europeans. In fact, I was born there, and will not move back because of those winters.

I have to agree with most of the rest on Quebec. Don't get me wrong, over the years I've met some very fine people in Quebec. However they have a bunch of intelectuals running their government. I guess that is true of most governments but these birds go one step further.

Ontario real estate is out to lunch, these guys have to be the king of finance. Only place I know of where folks can handle a 1/2 million dollar mortgage, lease two cars, and $35,000 credit card debt, making less than $100,000. per year. Most and even the Scots and Dutch must have lost their heritage, not only do they try to keep up with affluent neighbors, but boast of paying more for that big ticket item. Ah but me laddie, their winters are gentle, at least down here in the deep south west. Glen forgot one minor item, Scots across Canada are right into sliding chamber pots down the ice, bumping them into one another.

If you go west, real estate will level out again, winters will be quite severe. Polution used to be quite low, however I expect that has gone down the drain. On the west coast winters will be quite gentle.

And talk about loyal folk, in the past year Tory Newfoundland premier Dan Williams, basically told the Federal Torys to go pound sand, and what did it gain him? In a recent Provincial election he won all but 4 of the Provinces 50 odd seats. Feds cant even come close to that in Newfoundland. Dan's on a roll, he has oil offshore, and no Upper Canadian is going to tell him where to go. Why wouldn't Dan act like this, afterall the Feds gave his fish to the Asians and Euorpeans 25 years ago. Newfoundlanders had their Federal fish quotas cut every year, yet the Feds refused to enforce the 200 mile limit.

On the Outer Banks of NC, many of the locals still speak with a very British accent.. Nice folks there.. I have enjoyed visiting...

My Brother & I have discussed looking into some land in NS. as a place to go retire at..

Rod

90% of our heritage is Scotch-Irish, we're still clannish and the hills will remind you of 'ome!

My forefather's were MacFarrens and Harris' and Cochrane's and Hamm's and Savage's....and few other's thrown in for good measure. Taxes are down right cheap compared to elsewhere, the winter's are mild, folk's about as friendly as anywhere on Earth, we make the best whiskey, hate the King (hehe) and love our Country. Hunting and fishing are great, land reasonable and available. There's plenty of golf courses too! The down side is we don't wear kilts or have many sheep! My people landed in Virginia circa 1680.