This is the first fully documented account, produced in modern times, of the migration of Scots to Lower Canada.
By the early 1800s many Scottish settlements had been formed along the north side of the Ottawa River, i.
John Nairne and Malcolm Fraser were two of the first Highlanders to make their mark on the province, arriving at La Malbaie soon after the Treaty of Paris in 1763.
Scots were in the forefront of the early influx of British settlers, which began in the late eighteenth century.
This is the first fully documented account, produced in modern times, of the migration of Scots to Lower Canada