Migration and Empire: Issue 3 Flashcards
Impact of Scottish Immigrants Abroad
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Canada - Economy
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- Attractive to Scot’s especially for highlanders used to farming life, 1900-1930 half a million Scots had migrated to Canada
- Scots brought over new ideas for farming eg. Introduction of crop rotation
- Helped Industries boom, 1/4 Canadian business elite was of Scottish Origin.
- Established Trading Companies, Hudson Bay Company fur trading around the world (orcadians were recruited as their experience and the skills were required)
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Canada - Education
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- Scots investing money into Canadas services, McGill University was founded in 1821 with money from the estate of James McGill.
- Improving Education, Scot George Ramsay established Dalhousie Uni in 1818.
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Canada - Culture
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- Canadian Literature has been influenced by Scottish writers like Robert Burns and Sir Walter Scott.
- Places like Nova Scotia are based on Scotland with regards to name meaning new Scotland and flag design
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Canada - Impact on Natives
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- North-west rebellion of 1885 where Metis leader killed after over land ownership
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Australia - Economy
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- Scots important in farming specifically sheep farming - Marino wool. Scottish investment used to set up huge sheep runs in New South Wales and Victoria.
- Robert Campbell from Greenock played such an important role in developing Australian Trade that he was ‘the father of Australian Commerce’.
- Helped Industries boom, as late as the 1920’s and 1930s Scots were coming from Lanarkshire and Ayrshire to work in the New South Wales mines.
- Helped develop economy via banking, the Australian banking system was created out of a blend of English and Scottish traditions.
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Australia - Education
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- State of Queensland Scot’s led the education system
- Scots funded Education, ‘Australian College for Boys’ which opened in 1832 and funds sourced by John Dunmore Lang - recruited Scottish teachers
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Australia - Culture
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- Scots College is a private boarding school for boys in Sydney has a pipe band who wear the tartan of the Black watch regiment.
- Songs like advance Australian fair and Waltzing Matilda were written by Scottish immigrants
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Australia - Impact on Natives
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- Hornet’s Bank Massacre 1857, Bad conditions led to aborigines killing 8 Fraser family members, William Fraser killed 100 in response
- Expansion of farming land lead to increasing contact and conflict with natives
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New Zealand - Economy
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- Helped develop trade and shipping industry, Henry Nichol also set up a shipyard in Auckland in 1843, over 180 ships had been built in the company yard by 1887
- Scots founded NZ paper making industry
- Peter and David Duncan, successful agriculture implements business in Christchurch
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New Zealand - Education
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- The 1872 Scottish education act was basis for the NZ education system introduced 1877
- Otago the first girls school was opened in 1871 by Learmonth White Dalrymple, a scot.
- in 1875, the first head of medicine at Otago medical school was a Scot called John Scott.
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New Zealand - Culture
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- Caledonian games in NZ to celebrate Scottish culture
- Scottish holiday New years day became celebrated in NZ by late 19th century
- Scottish foods Luke porridge and scones have also become parts of NZ diets
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New Zealand - Impact on Natives
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- Scot’s took land from Maori, conflict
- Maori feared new technology and ideas of strangers (Scots)
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India - Economy
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- East Indian trade company helped develop by Scot’s to open trading from India to Britain
- Andrew Yule, Scot, established Hoolungpooree tea company and expanded into cloth and jute
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India - Education
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- John Wilson Educational Institution he set up in 1832 was known as the Ambrolie English school
- Reverend Alexander Duff (CoS) University of Calcutta in 1857. Similar schools opened in Bombay, Madras and Nagpur and first medical school in India
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India - Culture
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- Banned Hindu culture and deemed it ‘Barbaric’
- Arrested thugs on street to make India ‘more civilised’
- Many Indians resented Scots due to changes
