Kingdom of the Mind: How the Scots Helped Make Canada
ISBN: 9780773576414
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / McGill-Queen''s University Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Scots -- Canada -- History; Scottish Canadians -- History;

Many Canadians with a Scottish background still feel the pull of their Gaelic origins. During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries Scots dominated Montreal and, by extension, the rest of the country. Their habits and attitudes influenced business, education, science and medicine, the military, and even the way Canadians imagined themselves.

Peter E. Rider is Atlantic Provinces historian and curator, Canadian Museum of Civilization.

Heather McNabb is technician, rights and reproductions, and cataloguer, McCord Museum.


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