Was THIS The First Scottish Settler in Nova Scotia?

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6 күн бұрын

The impact of Scots in Canada has been huge, but who was Scotland's first emigrant to Canada? Scottish history tour guide, Bruce Fummey, tells the story of the first passenger on The Hector.
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@ScotlandHistoryTours 6 күн бұрын

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@gailsears2913 4 күн бұрын

Very interesting. Thanks! Native peoples helped every group that settled North America.

@LadyLark712 4 күн бұрын

They always say Canadian history is boring but that’s because most only do an overview of Canadian history. Rarely does someone take the time to look at history on an individual basis. 🧐 Thanks for the video!!!😋

@Rwsegee 3 күн бұрын

Irish/Acadian French heritage Canadian here. Your videos are an inspiration for people to look into their family histories regardless of where you come from. Thank You very much.

@Allastrology 4 күн бұрын

Good examples of decent human beings...bought home brother instead of cow and made moms heart smile. These Scots are impressive. Thank you Bruce!!!

@OcculiMortis 4 күн бұрын

Your history lessons are always great. And so are your videos with the awesome locations you go to that helps tell the story Bruce.

@ScotlandHistoryTours 4 күн бұрын

Wow, thank you!

@OcculiMortis 4 күн бұрын

@@ScotlandHistoryTours you are welcome.

@nancyholcombe8030 4 күн бұрын

Injustice brought many Scots to a land that was inhumane by their standards. Mi'kmaq people proved it to be not so inhumane as once thought and as a result, the Scots flourished! Thank you, Bruce, for a very inciteful and accurate history lesson. You are one of the best history teachers I've ever seen! Please take care now! 😊

@raydriver7300 4 күн бұрын

I love your work, Bruce. So well written and presented with just the right balance of humour and pathos 🌞

@sheralynnicholson7639 4 күн бұрын

My 4x great grandpa helped settle Nova Scotia and his father was an Untied Empire Loyalist.

@Wee_Langside 4 күн бұрын

Great story telling Bruce. Thank you

@jesusislukeskywalker4294 4 күн бұрын

it’s the truth sister ☝️ love you scottish sisters 🙏 let alone the brothers ❤

@alleyoop1234 4 күн бұрын

This was definitely worthy of a share to my social media!

@anitagoodwin4785 4 күн бұрын

Love your history stories of some of my ancestors ❤

@TheTimelord62 4 күн бұрын

With having my eldest sister in Canada and a Canadian. There is a story there. Yet here I am in Scotland. Am always interested in canada even as a nation today. Having been to Canada a few times myself. Another brilliant video Bruce thanks again.

@ScotlandHistoryTours 4 күн бұрын

Thanks for sharing!

@user-uu1wc6yz5z 4 күн бұрын

Well that was an amazing close to this video ..... showing the actual tangible connection to this story ... Frasers grave site . Possibly few locals know his family is there. I could be wrong , but at any rate , once again a perfect close to this story .

@marblehead2500 4 күн бұрын

Would love you to delve into the history of the Scots in New Brunswick, Canada, too! My forebears. Thanks for this great video!

@KellyAnn1997 4 күн бұрын

Interesting! Some of the elements of this story remind me of Outlander. I’m sure the author’s research involved Sandy’s incredible story!

@scrivener68 4 күн бұрын

There's no way anyone from the UK could have been prepared for Canadian weather, and it's not just the cold. The difference between the hottest and coldest temperatures ever recorded in Canada is 113 degrees Celsius, or 202 degrees Fahrenheit (record low -63 C or -81 F, record high 49.6 C or 121 F, which is actually higher than the highest temperature ever recorded in Texas). For comparison, the hottest ever recorded in the UK is 40.3 C (104.5 F), and the coldest is -27.2 C (-17 F). A Scot once joined our rugby team for a season. Rugby is a summer game out here on the prairies, for what should be obvious reasons, and he inquired of me at a practice: "How d'ye play in this HEAT?"

@ianvan3753 4 күн бұрын

Always great! Welcome to British Columbia

@davidnelson3214 4 күн бұрын

My family settled in Truro NS in 1760

@Marcus-ki1en 4 күн бұрын

That little clip at the beginning of the waterfall dumping onto the beach on the ocean is in Big Sur on the central coast of California (my backyard). Thanks for the nod.

@danielalexandermclachlanga3781 4 күн бұрын

Dad is from Cape Breton Island and tha Murray's came on tha Hector in 1759 fought at Culloden and had to leave Scotland because They were hunted Macphie and tha Macinnis relations came a few years later brilliant work Bruce was teary watching / listening

@Hrossey 3 күн бұрын

Scottish guy and an African are stuck on a lighthouse. Ghana no dae that? How no! Just …. Guinea 🇬🇳 no 😂

@anairsta6507 3 күн бұрын

Hector landed here in 1773 not 1759.

@joepratte727 4 күн бұрын

my first scottish ancestor that landed in canada is cuthbert grant although i was also related to simon fraser. love these looks at scottish history.

@suzannebudlong8376 4 күн бұрын

Is that the same Cuthbert Grant who was involved in the battle of Seven Oaks in Manitoba?

@joepratte727 4 күн бұрын

@@suzannebudlong8376 that was my uncle. his dad was the first grant in canada.

@MsSecondself 4 күн бұрын

Thanks!

@ScotlandHistoryTours 4 күн бұрын

Ah thanks so much

@TheArtofMentalAlchemy 3 сағат бұрын

Love your work so much 🙏🏻 Farley Mowat wrote a book called The Farfarers based on legends of the Native Americans in Nova Scotia. My ancestors Henry St Clair & his father were travelling there and the Sinclairs have a lifelong friendship with the Mi’kmaq. Then there’s the topic of Ogam Iberian Script and the prolific inscriptions all over the place. Barry Fell “America BC”, fascinating stuff!

@ninogaggi 4 күн бұрын

Thanks

@whoarewe7515 4 күн бұрын

Love it when you tell us a story.

@MrSinclairn 4 күн бұрын

Upvote for me,Bruce : great story,and thanks for mentioning my ancestor 'Prince' Henry Sinclair,Earl of Orkney('Prince Zichmini') and the Venetian Zeno brothers ! 👌👍

@AnnaAnna-uc2ff 4 күн бұрын

Thank you!

@ScotlandHistoryTours 4 күн бұрын

You're welcome!

@WolfRoss 4 күн бұрын

My Mc Culloch ancestor was a baronet in Canada.

@alansmithee8831 4 күн бұрын

A'reyt Bruce. Interesting how, both sides of the pond, the Scots seemed to be loyal to a king, even when rebels.

@jesusislukeskywalker4294 4 күн бұрын

great comment ☝️❤️ if you asked me i would say 👉🎤🐥 “some of my family got in trouble back in the days” 😔 and the same guy : “it’s really complicated” 🔭🐥 thank goodness for brothers like ours truly that post videos such as this . 🙏

@margaretritchie7328 4 күн бұрын

Indentured servants was still going on the last part of the 1800's. My grandfather, born in Ayr, and orphaned as a young man, brought his brothers and sister over as Indentured servants and worked off their indetures.

@lindakay9552 Күн бұрын

I'm really shocked the first Scotts didn't show up in Canada till that late. My first Scottish ancestor was in America in 1624. 😮

@ScotlandHistoryTours 11 сағат бұрын

I'm not sure that's quite what I said. Check out my video on Nova Scotia

@summerbreeze7066 14 сағат бұрын

I cannot believe you posted this. I was going to ask you about this part of history. Some of my ancestors came from Scotland. Mclean. They were sent from the port of Glasgow. They came from the Isle of Mull. Basically they were kicked off their land because of the rich farmers taking over the land. My ancestors landed in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. A few of them took the boat and went to Sandy Point, Newfoundland.

@summerbreeze7066 14 сағат бұрын

PS what you said about the Mi'kmaq is true. They did help a lot of people survive and learn to live off the land. You will find they also intermarried. If you can I would suggest you go to Newfoundland as well. There is a heavy presence of Scottish there. Highlands, Codroy Valley area. Macpherson, Gillis, Macinnis, are some names there. Hugh Mclean was one of the first settlers in the Codroy area. Mostly southwest coast of Newfoundland.If you can I would suggest going within the next year as our province is about to be bombarded with massive wind turbines and open mining like you have never seen. There wont be anything left in 50 years.

@johncalloway3547 4 күн бұрын

Its a Super Great Fantastic thing this Scotsman is giving pride to the people in Canada with Scottish Heritage he should be awarded the Order of Canada then that medal would actually mean something

@saulteanuts-vg8iu 4 күн бұрын

So you don't think it means anything? What website messed you up? Fringe? Derp

@saulteanuts-vg8iu 4 күн бұрын

Pierre Poilievre is against reproductive rights for women, legal buds, and gay marriage.

@HopeLaFleur1975 4 күн бұрын

We are getting truth about Canadians history. Not from schools. 😊

@pjmoseley243 4 күн бұрын

@@HopeLaFleur1975 what does it take to convince you that what your being told is the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth?

@hilariousname6826 4 күн бұрын

From what I've seen, I don't think there's any shortage of 'pride' among 'the people in Canada with Scottish Heritage' ...!

@karyldavidkidd7111 4 күн бұрын

Canadian. Thanks buddy Slainte live

@reynardthefox 4 күн бұрын

and here I thought it was my great. great gran .. a Robertson who went to Halifax in 1756 to attack Quebec

@franceyneireland1633 4 күн бұрын

An English shilling Rare Edward VI circa 1551-1553 was found in Victoria BC in 2013 where there had been Native village back in 1551. Previously other old English coins of the time period were discovered in Oak Bay and Quadra Island of BC all were native villages back then. One theory is that Sir Francis Drake explored the BC coast on a secret mission in 1579. He was supposedly giving coins of the realm to the Native groups as proof the English had laid claim to the land. Historian Samuel Bawlf, who has long argued that Sir Francis Drake explored the B.C. coast on a secret mission in 1579 - 200 years before the arrival of Capt. James Cook. A history enthusiast in Newfoundland has discovered what may be the oldest known English coin ever found in Canada at a historical site. A gold coin is a Henry VI quarter noble. With a face value of one shilling and eight pence, the coin was minted in London between 1422 and 1427. That's about 70 years before John Cabot landed on Newfoundland's shores in 1497 after setting sail from the English port of Bristol.

@Risad 4 күн бұрын

My grandfather came over to Cape Breton in the early 1900's from Scotland. I've heard different reasons on why. But he passed away in the 80's. I never got the chance to ask him why he came over, unfortunately. All I have are the stories my father tells me of him.

@ScotlandHistoryTours 4 күн бұрын

🥲

@DuncanMcintyre-jk3qb 4 күн бұрын

Great story well told ya saintee ya coyp thank you again for saving my sanity (ish)

@davesky538 3 күн бұрын

Madac from ancient Wales was here on the American continent before the Norsemen. Lots of physical evidence on Little Tennessee River and throughout that area.

@gijgij4541 4 күн бұрын

Good Morning all fellw little SHT's... 😃

@divi2747 Күн бұрын

thanks!

@ScotlandHistoryTours 11 сағат бұрын

You're welcome

@nomansland4811 2 күн бұрын

This is very interesting. I’m also interested in Scotts who came to the Appalachian mountains. Seems the southern mountain language accent is influenced by the Scotts. I’d love to learn more about that.

@ScotlandHistoryTours 2 күн бұрын

One t in Scots. Thanks for your request, but it seems a little outside my expertise

@V.B.Squire 3 күн бұрын

9:20 😢

@dianehepper8764 23 сағат бұрын

In my part of the world BC Fraser is the big river

@Mainforce66 15 сағат бұрын

Hi Bruce, have you, or ever thought of, doing a story about Peter Grant the last jacobite? (Auld Dubrach)

@ScotlandHistoryTours 11 сағат бұрын

Already done

@DAYBROK3 4 күн бұрын

do you have any idea how many alexander frasers there were?

@jocr1971 4 күн бұрын

my 2 sons dna tests come back with a french and north east scottish predominance. the french has a very specific marker with a link to 'tres rivieres' colony of 1620. i wonder if the scottish ancestry has links with early colonies as well. guess i'll have to get my results to narrow it down.

@LimeyRedneck 2 күн бұрын

🤠 💜

@lauriegunn9636 4 күн бұрын

🥰

@joesutherland225 4 күн бұрын

Simon fraser that name is very familiar to anyone in British Columbia Canada .is it the same person or a decendant?

@suemackenzie7491 4 күн бұрын

Canadian by birth. Scottish by the grace of God.

@WolfRoss 4 күн бұрын

Both Swedish males and Native American males have the Q-m242 Y-DNA. So there is a very long connection between Scandinavia and North America.

@wtspman 4 күн бұрын

It’s sad you didn’t get to PEI on this tour. The first Scots from Kintyre and the Hebrides arrived there in 1770, three years before the Hector brought it’s first passengers to Pictou. My ancestors were in that first wave. Their ship, the Annabella from Campbelltown, was wrecked in October 1770 just before landing in Malpeque Bay. From there the story is essentially the same as what you told in this video: their initial survival was owed to the help they recieved from the Micmac and Acadians who were already there. The interesting twist for the Scots who settled on PEI, is that they moved to.a place with the same feudal system of absentee landlords and tenant farmers that they had left behind in Scotland. The system would persist for another 100 years until PEI joined Confederation in 1873. The story of Scottish settlement in PEI is told in Lucille Campey’s book, A Very Fine Class of Immigrants (2007 Dundurn Press). It’s a great read.

@ScotlandHistoryTours 4 күн бұрын

We did go to PEI

@wtspman 4 күн бұрын

Nice! Then you’ll appreciate this: In your show in Fergus last week, when you told the joke about everyone knowing your mother’s name, I couldn’t help think that is exactly what would happen in PEI. It’s a well known thing that Islanders are very much into genealogy: their own, and everyone else’s. When you introduce yourself, if they don’t already know, they’ll want to know who your parents and grandparents were. The way it comes out is “Who are your people?” There’s no getting away with using your mother’s maiden name, or your father’s birthplace as a security question in PEI.

@mattfraser1096 4 күн бұрын

Was the "laughing his head off" story true about that last Fraser lord after his execution?

@xtramail4909 4 күн бұрын

Erik the Viking dude went to Scotland after and had a baby there

@lauriebhoy1984 4 күн бұрын

Hawkeye the Noo .

@UncleWally3 4 күн бұрын

Just a quibble but, there was no Canada when the first or the second Hector sailed; neither did Canada exist in 1803 when, at the age of 75, Alexander Fraser died. What did exist is the imperative to name and reach consensus about what a place is called. I suspect in considering, as a unit of analysis, the act of reaching consensus to name a place, much is revealed about being human.

@ScotlandHistoryTours 2 күн бұрын

Aye, but in a short video like this, there's no time for to get involved in pedantry. It's difficult enough to keep people's attention. I have in other videos poked fun by saying Canada didn't exist till 1982😜

@UncleWally3 2 күн бұрын

@@ScotlandHistoryTours You gotta be right about 1982 but 1949’s also a big piece of the puzzle. Great channel, always a laugh and something new.

@jesusislukeskywalker4294 4 күн бұрын

im sorry ☝️😔🙏📈❤️🔭🐥 all i want to do is go around being nice to everyone and make the world a better place 🔥🚬🐨 it wasn’t really my fault 📝 history is really quite horrible 😔 if you asked me .. let’s make amends and make the world a better place than it was 200 years ago.. 🙏

@MJBJ-cb2jd 4 күн бұрын

Um, you have heard of St. Brendan.

@MJBJ-cb2jd 4 күн бұрын

Not a Scot but European

@ScotlandHistoryTours 4 күн бұрын

...so nothing to do with this video then🤔

@haraldtheyounger5504 4 күн бұрын

Aye, too many Scots were ill-prepared for survival, but that's what becomes of habit. I'd have been eating plants; we have pretty much the same wild nutritious plants which grow in abundance in Scotland and Canada/North America.

@witsend177 2 күн бұрын

Bydand forever

@DavidLee-yu7yz 4 күн бұрын

JImmy

@janetmackinnon3411 4 күн бұрын

Aye, and the wives....coping, and giving birth in those conditions...

@pjmoseley243 4 күн бұрын

why not get the SNP to start canvassing in the English borders Bruce?

@haraldtheyounger5504 4 күн бұрын

It's not canvassing the SNP need to do, but get down to real world action. Too long they've wasted opportunity, and millions of pounds. They've focussed on the frivolous; identity politics, stupid hate laws, short term gimmicks, etc. That is not what Scotland needs to gain liberation from the Westminster yoke, from that immoral arranged marriage which end in Colonial rule. The SNP have to show that they mean business for Scotland and Scots. We have, like other Countries, a needless housing crisis. So easy to sort that out, creating both employment and actual affordable renting homes run by Councils, not private investors. The NHS requires a complete overhaul, too much wasted money which should be directed to the actual function of a health care system. The roads need upgrading, a simple dedicated road tax of a mere £50 to £100 per year per vehicle would pay for that. Again, long term employment too. Our Schooling needs to be revamped and catered towards the children, not the needs of outdated modes of control. Intelligence and creativity need freedom, and that brings about innovation and endless improvements which have been stifled by restrictive schooling practices which cannot be termed education. Just a few of the immediate needs the SNP should be tending too. The SNP have to get real about what they are about. Independence will only come vie results. That is the only way to convince the doubters, the fearful, and conformists.

@pjmoseley243 4 күн бұрын

@@haraldtheyounger5504 you are spot on with your analysis well done, and they would have been the envy of the rest of the UK

@haraldtheyounger5504 4 күн бұрын

@@pjmoseley243 Too many settle for too little; "Oh, our Scottish NHS is performing better than England". That's no big deal when we have waiting lists hitting a year in advance, when we have people in A&E waiting 8 hours or more for treatment. Needless suffering is never acceptable. The apologists need to wake up. Nothing is impossible when those of intelligent will get down to the nitty-gritty. Something Scots used to be famed for.

@HopeLaFleur1975 4 күн бұрын

They were from Scotland 😂

@gordleith9474 4 күн бұрын

I could tell you who the first Scotsman was but it’ll cost you a fiver

@onbedoeldekut1515 4 күн бұрын

I bet you don't know the TRUE reason it's called Canada. It was a Scot's prayer to God, hoping for success. Oh, Can I, father (Da).

@user-uo9cy2ep2h 3 күн бұрын

Viking is a verb. Northmen is what they were called.

@ScotlandHistoryTours 3 күн бұрын

...and yet it's spelled with a capita... which makes it a proper noun. I'll go with that

@nothingbutthisthatandtheother 4 күн бұрын

LOVE THE VIDEOS I HAVE TO START WITH THAT! thanks for your great videos m8! Henri Saint Clair was in fact, the first Scotsman in Canada it is fact. The Local Aboriginal People in Nova Scotia actually saw and drew cave drawings of Saint Clairs' ships arriving and even adopted his tunic, flag and shield designs as their flag. long Before Alexander in 1621. Henri Saint Claire is extremely WELL KNOWN I Canada and a part of Canada's History. Columbus isn't even a passing mention since he never discovered anything before anyone else but rather long after others, he simply took credit for it.

@hilariousname6826 4 күн бұрын

"Henri Saint Claire is extremely WELL KNOWN I Canada" .... Not true. In fact, he's barely known at all. Most Canadians have some idea who Columbus was; you'd have a hard time finding one - other than yourself - who has any familiarity with St. Clair.