Description

This definitive and detailed history traces the migration of clansfolk from the Highlands of Scotland to Nova Scotia and then on to New Zealand in the mid nineteenth century.

Speaking their Gaelic language, they settled at Waipu in the northern part of New Zealand; by the twenty-first century their descendants numbered more than 70,000.

The Christian settlement that they established at Saint Ann’s, on Cape Breton Island, in 1820 moved en masse to New Zealand in the 1850s, thereby making the Waipu Scots New Zealand’s oldest
continuing European community.

In addition to their six ships the author also writes about seven other vessels that brought settlers to New Zealand at the same time from Prince Edward Island and other parts of British North America, thus creating the only real demographic link between the sister dominions of Canada and New Zealand.