Issue 3 Imapct Of Scots On The Empire Flashcards
Canada - Economy
•land that could be used for farming for little to no money Highlander’s attracted and between 1900-1930 half a million Scots moved to Canada
•Helped industry boom 1/4 of Canadian business elites were Scottish despite only making up 16% of population in the late 1800s
•Canadas first bank the bank of Montreal was established by Scots in 1817
•Scots we’re the driving force behind the Canadian pacific railway chief engineer was George Stephan a scot
Canada- Education
• Scots established various schools including James Strachan who founded the university of Toronto in 1872
•the church if Scotland also impacted education and founded Queens university
Canada- culture
•Canada’s first PM was John Macdonald who lead Canada to independence
• Scottish society were set up and are still about today bagpipe playing ceilidhs and whisky tasting take place
•Scottish poets like Robert burns included Canadian writers
•place names such as Nova Scotia translating to new Scotland
Australia- economy
•Scots moved to AUS to try their hand in the gold rush on 1850
•Scot Robert Campbell was ‘the farther off of Australian Commerce’ as he played such an important role in AUD trade
•Helped AUS industries boom as late as 1920/30s Lanarkshire and Ayrshire went to New South Wales mines who in 1914 were producing 8% of coal in the region
•fist AUS bank was founded in 1817 with help from Lachlan Macquarie Scott governed
Australia- education
•the Scottish Kirk helped set up’s chops so by 1852 there were 42 parish schools
•Head of Queensland teacher training in 1847-92 was scot James Semple Kerr
Australia- culture
•Catherine Helen Spence became AUS fist female no and was from melrose
•waltzing Matilda and advance Australia fair we’re both written by Scots
New Zealand- economy
•Henry Nichol set up a shipyard in 1843 by 1887 180 ships had already been produced
•Dr david Munro introduced the first sheep and founded the nz sheep industry still at large today
•Scot Donald ride arrived in 1849 and purchased a little land by 1919 he had 6300 acres thanks to sheep farming
New Zealand- education
•1872 Scottish education act was the basis for the NZ education act established in 1877
•first head of medicine at original medical school was scot John scott
•James MacAndrew scot set up uni of Dunedin
New Zealand- culture
•Caledonian games in NZ to celebrate Scottish culture
•Scottish foods like porridge and scones have also become part of NZ diets
India- economy
•Thomas Lipton a scot created tea company and helped India overtake chine in the lucrative tea trade
•James Ramsey oversaw the creation of a massive railway connecting remote area with cities allowing telegrams and cheaper postage
•Scots moved to India to find their names in jute coal timber tea auger indigo and cotton however sent money back so it’s questionable how this positively impacted Indian economy
India- education
Alexander duff founded the uni of Calcutta as well as a school teaching English in Calcutta in 1830
Alexander duff also founded first female school and first medical school
John Wilson educational institution he set up in 1832 was known as the Ambrolie English school
India- culture
The Dailhouse banded suttee the Hindu practice where the wife had to throw herself on the funeral pyre and die if her husband died
Dailhouse banned thuggee an organized group of people would kill travelers by strangling them, he hung hundreds of thugs
