Tour Scotland photograph of a cottage at Harris, Isle of Rum, Scotland. In 1826 the island of Rum was cleared of its population to make way for a single sheep farm. Three hundred of the inhabitants had their passage paid in overcrowded ships to Nova Scotia, Canada in July 1826, with the remainder following on the St Lawrence, along with 150 islanders from Muck, in 1828. People whose ancestors had lived there for millennia were forced to emigrate. An eyewitness said that he would never forget to his dying day how " the wild outcries of the men and heart breaking wails of the women and children filled all the air between the mountain shores ".
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