Paperback book `Myth, Migration and the Making of Memory` edited by Marjory Harper and Michael E. Vance.
A collection of essays from a wide range of disciplines pointing to the varied and complex transatlantic relationship that existed between Scotland and Nova Scotia.
Paperback book `The Mobile Scot` by Jeanette M. Brock.
A study of Scottish emigration and migration 1861-1911based on a thesis which won the Hume Brown prize for Scottish history.
Paperback book `A Dance called America` by James Hunter.
Account of what happened to the thousands of people who, over the last two hundred years, left the Highlands and Islands to make new lives in the United States and Canada.
Hardback book `On the Crofters` Trail` By David Craig.
Account of the Clearances and emigration to Canada.
Paperback book `The Highland Clearances` by Eric Richards.
An account of the origins of the Clearances in the 18th century, the crofting legislation of the 1880s and how the the process of clearance was part of a wider European movement of rural depopulation.
Paperback book `Scotland Farewell: The People of the Hector` by Donald MacKay.
The story of the Highland Scots who sailed to Pictou, Nova Scotia in 1773 on board the `Hector` and who pioneered the largescale emigration of Scots to Nova Scotia.
Paperback book `Gaelic Songs in Nova Scotia` by Helen Creighton and Calum MacLeod.
93 Gaelic folksongs from Cape Breton.
De-accessioned 1.3.2026.
Paperback book `The Great Highland Famine` by T. M. Devine.
A detailed account of the clearances of the 19th century, landlordism, crofting life, emigration and migration.
Copy extract `Nineteenth Century Tiree Emigrant Communities in Ontario` by Margaret MacKay from `Oral History`, Vol. 9, No. 2, Autumn 1981, pp 49-60.
Account of the emigrant communities from Tiree in Ontario from oral and documentary sources.
Newspaper article from Canada with reference to Malcolm MacLean, first mayor of Vancouver.
Newspaper article by the grand-daughter of Malcolm MacLean, first mayor of Vancouver.
