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There were a number of places that Scots emigrants went to, including different parts of the UK as well as abroad.

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There were a number of places that Scots emigrants went to, including different parts of the UK as well as

abroad.

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Migration within the United Kingdom

• Many moved around the United Kingdom.

• Between 1841 and 1931 three quarters of a million Scots people settled in the rest of the United Kingdom.

• Highland Scots moved down to the industrial cities of Scotland and England.

• Many Scots moved to England as they had skills that could be used in farming and industry there.

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United States

• A popular destination especially in the second half of the 19th century.

• People flocked to the US to take advantage of the abundance of land in the west.

• The call of the Gold Rush was also was a huge attraction.

• The cities of America heralded wonderful opportunities.

• The 1860s saw around nine and half thousand per year emigrate.

• By the 1920s this had risen to around eighteen and a half thousand emigrants per year.

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Canada• This was very popular in the

second half of the 19th century.

• Land was available for people and this suited the Highlanders who had skills to offer.

• Ontario and Nova Scotia were the places that the Scots tended to settle.

• Canada became more popular than the USA by the 1920s.

• New towns were growing and the Scots would be central to their development.

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Australia • In Australia, 1854, Scottish-born

people were the third largest group after the English and Irish, with 36,044 people.

• Within three years a further 17,000 arrived lured by the promise of gold.

• Immigration assistance schemes also swelled the number of Scottish arrivals.

• By 1861 the Scotland-born population of Victoria reached 60,701. These immigrants were looking to farm and work in the growing cities.

http://Scots in Austrialia/

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Australia Cont

• Immigration continued into the early 20th century, assistance schemes for British immigrants promoted Scottish immigration. By the 1940s, recession and war affected Scotland's economy, prompting increasing numbers to emigrate. The Scottish-born community in Victoria grew from 23,442 in 1947 – its lowest level since the early years of white settlement – to 41,923 by 1966.Scots in Australia/

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New Zealand

• http://Scots in New Zealand/

Scottish emigration to New Zealand dates from the 1830s, and was heavily concentrated in the southern area of the South Island. Members of the Free Church of Scotland were important in the planning of the settlement of Dunedin, or 'New Edinburgh', first surveyed and laid out in 1846. By 1891 approximately 25% of the UK–born population in New Zealand was Scottish. 20% were Scots, and by the 1920s this was as high as 33%. This shows the significance of the numbers of Scots who went and also the importance of the Scots in their influence in New Zealand

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