The Migration of Scots to Québec: Montreal's Scottish Public Community and the Formation of Identities from the 18th to the 20th Century

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The Migration of Scots to Québec: Montreal's Scottish Public Community and the Formation of Identities from the 18th to the 20th Century
Abstract
An examination of Scottish migration to Montreal, focusing on members of Scottish associations and interest-based groups and examining how Scottish identities have shaped the city from the eighteenth century to the present day. According to the author, most Scots who migrated to Montreal (and to the province as a whole) were semi-skilled and skilled workers of urban, industrial Lowland origin. She points out that by the turn of the twentieth century, Scottish workers in Montreal gained autonomy from the city's small Scottish elite, who had established the Saint Andrew's Society in the nineteenth century to disseminate its values and ideas, by establishing the Sons of Scotland Benevolent Association as their own socio-cultural institution and mode of charitable support and assistance.
Type
PhD dissertation
University
University of Aberdeen
Place
Aberdeen, Scotland
Date
2010
Language
en
Citation
Bourbeau, Catherine. “The Migration of Scots to Québec: Montreal’s Scottish Public Community and the Formation of Identities from the 18th to the 20th Century.” PhD dissertation, University of Aberdeen, 2010.
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