Originally Posted by
Liam
Jock.... at one of the more recent census, about 15% of Canadians self identified as having Scottish ancestry. Btw that means there are more Scottish descendants in Canada than there are Scottish citizens. I can only suspect that due to the Highland clearances the descendants of Highlanders in Canada would be even a much greater %.
Slainte my friend.
From what I've read the total number estimated to have been cleared over the century or so of the clearances, was a relatively small number of 150,000 people total (a lot from the districts they came from). They of course all didn't go to Canada, but the USA, Australia, New Zealand, England and of course the cities of Scotland took some.
This would be a comparatively small percentage of the immigrants of Canada
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