Old Photograph Crofters Gathering Peat North Uist Outer Hebrides Scotland

Old photograph of crofters gathering Peats on North Uist, Scotland. North Uist in the Outer Hebrides was hit hard during the Highland Clearances, and there was large scale emigration from the island to Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Canada. The early emigrants from North Uist spoke only Gaelic and were fiercely Protestant and when emigrating almost invariably went to the same areas as relatives and others from their village or district had earlier emigrated, where they could be assured of receiving assistance, having people with whom they could converse in Gaelic until they learned English, and where a Presbyterian church was nearby.



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