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I have recently started to research my Scottish family members that emigrated to Canada from the 1800's onwards. The first migrants probably spoke English or Gaelic but were NOT English people! Many would have been fluent in French . Many Scottish words were derived from the French language although it is less likely that they will be spoken nowadays.In terms of research that is really significant that this distinction is made as the English databases will not list Scottish families. On my paternal side the GRANTS were from the Highlands(Speyside) and possibly worked in the trading companies.Many would learn French and native languages It is unlikely that they would associate easily associate with the English settlers. In the 19th century in my family many Ditchburns,(Dunfermline Fife ) Scotts,Patersons(Fife,and Clackmanan) Hasties (Linlithgow )Muirs and Bennetts (Borders ) migrated to Canada. I have managed to find several Hastie connections(in Ontario) thanks to Canadian cousins but so far I have not yet found any links with any area of Canada for the rest of my family links I have found a book by Colin Galloway " White People,Indians and Highlanders(Oxford University Press ) a good start to understanding the conditions that many faced in the New World.
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