Quote Originally Posted by Phil View Post
I think there were a variety of landowners when it came to evicting people from their lands and to tar them all with the same brush is perhaps an injustice. While there were, undoubtedly, dreadful injustices such as the poor souls cleared out of the Sutherland Estates in the north, where women and children were burnt out of their homes in Strathnaver, there were other people elsewhere who were encouraged to uproot and emigrate to other lands where they might, and probably did, flourish much more than their impoverished country would have allowed them. Where would America, Canada and Australia be nowadays without these hardy immigrants who had nothing to lose and everything to gain?
An excellent point, Phil -- that is why so many of us "colonials" are proud of the contributions of our Scottish ancestors to our own nations.

T.