Scottish emigration - 19th/20th cen.

1. There were a number of places
that Scots emigrants went to,
including different parts of the UK
as well as abroad.

2. Migration within the United Kingdom
• Many moved around the United
Kingdom.
• Between 1841 and 1931 three
quarters of a million Scots people
settled in the rest of the United
Kingdom.
• Highland Scots moved down to the
industrial cities of Scotland and
England.
• Many Scots moved to England as
they had skills that could be used
in farming and industry there.

3. United States
• A popular destination especially
in the second half of the 19th
century.
• People flocked to the US to
take advantage of the
abundance of land in the west.
• The call of the Gold Rush was
also was a huge attraction.
• The cities of America heralded
wonderful opportunities.
• The 1860s saw around nine and
half thousand per year emigrate.
• By the 1920s this had risen to
around eighteen and a half
thousand emigrants per year.

4. Canada
• This was very popular in the
second half of the 19th
century.
• Land was available for
people and this suited the
Highlanders who had skills
to offer.
• Ontario and Nova Scotia
were the places that the
Scots tended to settle.
• Canada became more
popular than the USA by
the 1920s.
• New towns were growing and
the Scots would be central
to their development.

5. Australia
• In Australia, 1854, Scottish-born
people were the third largest group
after the English and Irish, with
36,044 people.
• Within three years a further 17,000
arrived lured by the promise of gold.
• Immigration assistance schemes also
swelled the number of Scottish
arrivals.
• By 1861 the Scotland-born population
of Victoria reached 60,701. These
immigrants were looking to farm and
work in the growing cities.
http://Scots
in Austrialia/

7. Australia Cont
• Immigration continued into the early 20th century,
assistance schemes for British immigrants promoted
Scottish immigration. By the 1940s, recession and war
affected Scotland's economy, prompting increasing
numbers to emigrate. The Scottish-born community in
Victoria grew from 23,442 in 1947 – its lowest level
since the early years of white settlement – to 41,923
by 1966.
Scots in Australia/

8. New Zealand
• http://Scots in New
Zealand/
Scottish emigration to New Zealand dates from the
1830s, and was heavily concentrated in the southern
area of the South Island. Members of the Free Church
of Scotland were important in the planning of the
settlement of Dunedin, or 'New Edinburgh', first
surveyed and laid out in 1846. By 1891 approximately
25% of the UK–born population in New Zealand was
Scottish. 20% were Scots, and by the 1920s this was as
high as 33%. This shows the significance of the numbers
of Scots who went and also the importance of the Scots
in their influence in New Zealand