Finding Your Scottish Ancestors in Canada
Christine Woodcock
Content
Welcome
1m 57s
Speaker's Introduction
1m 19s
Introduction
5m 25s
Prince Edward Island
13m 24s
Nova Scotia
4m 6s
HBC
8m 35s
North-West Company
24m 5s
Upper Canada
10m 45s
British Home Children
3m 5s
Announcements / prizes
5m 27s
Questions / answers
4m 37s
About this webinar
Scots began coming to Canada in the mid 1600s, first as entrepreneurs – men on the make, and then as a means to an end – ways to enjoy a better life and to have the opportunity to own their own land. Others were sent to Canada in hopes of them having a better life than the one they left behind. In this presentation, we will cover Merchants to NFLD, HBC, Highland Scots to PEI and Nova Scotia, Selkirk Settlers, Huron Tract, CN/Northwest Settlements, British Home Children, Farm Boys, and various Settlement Schemes.
About the speaker
Christine Woodcock is a genealogy educator with an interest in Scottish research. As an immigrant herself, Christine is always interested in the stories of other immigrants and her research has led he...
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Comments (72)
Your talk so so good! Learned a great deal about an area I didn't know anything about. However, your talk stopped too soon! My Alexander Matheson (his name might as well be John Smith) was born at Cape Breton, NS in 1833, to parents both born in Scotland. Moved to the Red River Valley to farm in 1860. After trying to track him down for 60 YEARS that is about I know. But I assume his parents came to that area on the shiploads of people who went to work in the mines and canneries there. Can you tell me where I might find that face in the crowd?
Do you have any information on Scottish coming to New Brunswick. I have some who went to Northern New Brunswick.
Fantastic amount of information, Christine. I have several branches of my family that came from Scotland to Nova Scotia, Upper Canada and finally my grandpa to Manitoba much later. Thank you!
Christine did an amazing job on this topic. I have read several books on the settlement on PEI with the Selkirk settlers. She provided me with additional insight. As well as information I did not know about the Red River settlers. I found all the information on the HBC and NWC fascinating. I did not know they eventually merged. It was interesting that Hawaii was also included - who knew?? I would highly recommend this webinar for anyone searching their Scottish Ancestors in Canada. Many thanks!!
Would just like to know more about Scottish schooling, Scotland Archives - how helpful are they to researchers?
You will get the information about the Scottish archives in the previous webinar I gave, Online Sources for Scottish Genealogy. It is in the Legacy webinar library.
Very interesting and informative. Thank you so much for a wonderful webinar and all the useful tips. I can't wait to go see about some of the resources she talked about.
Excellent history lesson. Christine is both passionate and knowledgeable and an effective presenter
A very interesting and informative presentation, full of details on Canada's beginnings that I didn't learn (or recall) from schooling. Thanks Christine.