1 ene 1715 año - Scottish
Fleeing Jacobites - 1715-1759
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From 1715 to about 1759, many Scots that emigrated to Canada were Jacobites, fleeing Scotland after the failed Jacobite Risings of 1715 and 1745. Many Jacobites were captured and sentenced, as traitors, to transportation to the American colonies.
After the Jacobite Rising of 1745 and bloody defeat at the Battle of Culloden, Highland Jacobites were hunted men. Lands were confiscated and the 1746 Act of Proscription made it illegal for Highlanders to carry or own weapons, own or wear articles of Highland dress, including bagpipes, or teach Gaelic. A first offender could be sentenced to six months in prison, but a person caught a second time would be transported to the colonies to spend seven years as an indentured labourer or in the service of the British military.
The Jacobite Lieutenant Colonel Charles Fraser, eldest son of 'Old Inverallochy', led the Frasers of Lovett at the Battle of Culloden. As Fraser lay wounded after the battle, the Duke of Cumberland ordered he be shot dead. Fraser's younger brother, Captain Simon Fraser, fought in Canada, in Fraser’s Highlanders, and died of his wounds after the Battle of the Plains of Abraham in 1759. The surrender of New France after the Battle of the Plains of Abraham opened up the Canadian colonies for settlement.
Many Scots chose to leave for the New World to escape the brutal repression of their way of life. They took with them the prohibited articles of Highland dress and culture. In 1773, the Highlanders that sailed on the 'Hector' from Loch Broom landed on Nova Scotia wearing their proscribed Highland dress.
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