I just finished reading a non-fiction book which I feel would be of interest to people of Highland ancestry, particularly those now living in North America. The title is " A DANCE CALLED AMERICA" by James Hunter ; ISBN 1 85158 639 3 It is an account of the part that emigrants from the Scottish Highlands played in developing North America, as soldiers, explorers, fur traders, pioneer settlers , lumberjacks, and railroad builders. Included in the areas covered are North Carolina, Nova Scotia,Quebec, Ontario, Manitoba, Alberta, B.C. and Washington State: Highland clearances, including those from Sutherland/Kildonan and the Earl of Selkirk's scheme are dealt with in some detail and many names are mentioned. The book was lent to me by a friend. It is not in my local library but I think it is worthwhile checking to see whether it is in yours. Ian

Ian, I will certainly be looking for that book. I have just read a book which is also worth telling you about: "UPROOTED HEATHER" A Story of the Selkirk Settlers by Wemyss Cavaick. Unfortunately this book does not have an ISBN but was published by the Mitchell Press Limited, Vancouver, Canada, in 1967. How I wish I could send each and every one of you a copy of this wonderful book. Thanks to a friend in Canada a copy arrived for me yesterday. Returning from the office last night I picked it up and looked at the first couple of pages - I went to bed at 2am having not once put the book down! When time allows I will post a few interesting pages for general reading. Christine Highland Hearts http://www.highlandhearts.com/ -----Original Message----- From: Ian Morrison [mailto:ianmorrison@msn.com] Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2001 4:49 AM To: SCT-SUTHERLAND-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Interesting Book I just finished reading a non-fiction book which I feel would be of interest to people of Highland ancestry, particularly those now living in North America. The title is " A DANCE CALLED AMERICA" by James Hunter ; ISBN 1 85158 639 3 It is an account of the part that emigrants from the Scottish Highlands played in developing North America, as soldiers, explorers, fur traders, pioneer settlers , lumberjacks, and railroad builders. Included in the areas covered are North Carolina, Nova Scotia,Quebec, Ontario, Manitoba, Alberta, B.C. and Washington State: Highland clearances, including those from Sutherland/Kildonan and the Earl of Selkirk's scheme are dealt with in some detail and many names are mentioned. The book was lent to me by a friend. It is not in my local library but I think it is worthwhile checking to see whether it is in yours. Ian ==== SCT-SUTHERLAND Mailing List ==== You may, at times, wish to check out previous messages to this list. You can do this at http://archiver.rootsweb.com/SCT-SUTHERLAND-L/ ============================== Visit Ancestry's Library - The best collection of family history learning and how-to articles on the Internet. http://www.ancestry.com/learn/library --- Incoming mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.255 / Virus Database: 128 - Release Date: 5/17/01 --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.255 / Virus Database: 128 - Release Date: 5/17/01

Hi Christine, Do you know if Wemmys Cavaick is a pen name for the author of "UPROOTED HEATHER" There is maybe no connection here at all, but just the other week I was working on an outside limb of my family tree, the family of Angus Sutherland/Helen McKenzie, they had 7 sons and 1 daughter(the daughter is in my tree), now their youngest son was christened 11th Feb. 1809 Wemmys Erskine Sutherland, they lived at Cavaik, (Cavaik is roughly between Brochrobie and Badnellan in Clyne) I have no more info. on him but I believe some of the family went to Canada. There may be many places called Caviak, but I just thought I would mention it, there might be an outside chance of a connection. Isabella. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Christine Stokes" <chris@northants26.freeserve.co.uk> To: <SCT-SUTHERLAND-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2001 7:35 AM Subject: RE: Interesting Book > Ian, I will certainly be looking for that book. > I have just read a book which is also worth telling you about: > "UPROOTED HEATHER" A Story of the Selkirk Settlers by Wemyss Cavaick. > Unfortunately this book does not have an ISBN but was published by the > Mitchell Press Limited, Vancouver, Canada, in 1967. How I wish I could send > each and every one of you a copy of this wonderful book. > Thanks to a friend in Canada a copy arrived for me yesterday. Returning > from the office last night I picked it up and looked at the first couple of > pages - I went to bed at 2am having not once put the book down! > When time allows I will post a few interesting pages for general reading. > > Christine > Highland Hearts > http://www.highlandhearts.com/ > > -----Original Message----- > From: Ian Morrison [mailto:ianmorrison@msn.com] > Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2001 4:49 AM > To: SCT-SUTHERLAND-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: Interesting Book > > I just finished reading a non-fiction book which I feel would be of interest > to people of Highland ancestry, particularly those now living in North > America. The title is " A DANCE CALLED AMERICA" by James Hunter ; ISBN 1 > 85158 639 3 > > It is an account of the part that emigrants from the Scottish Highlands > played in developing North America, as soldiers, explorers, fur traders, > pioneer settlers , lumberjacks, and railroad builders. > > > Included in the areas covered are North Carolina, Nova Scotia,Quebec, > Ontario, Manitoba, > Alberta, B.C. and Washington State: Highland clearances, including those > from Sutherland/Kildonan and the Earl of Selkirk's scheme are dealt with in > some detail and many names are mentioned. > > The book was lent to me by a friend. It is not in my local library but I > think it is worthwhile checking to see whether it is in yours. > > > Ian > > > ==== SCT-SUTHERLAND Mailing List ==== > You may, at times, wish to check out previous messages to this list. You > can do this at http://archiver.rootsweb.com/SCT-SUTHERLAND-L/ > > ============================== > Visit Ancestry's Library - The best collection of family history > learning and how-to articles on the Internet. > http://www.ancestry.com/learn/library > > > --- > Incoming mail is certified Virus Free. > Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). > Version: 6.0.255 / Virus Database: 128 - Release Date: 5/17/01 > > --- > Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. > Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). > Version: 6.0.255 / Virus Database: 128 - Release Date: 5/17/01 > > > ==== SCT-SUTHERLAND Mailing List ==== > You may, at times, wish to check out previous messages to this list. You can do this at http://archiver.rootsweb.com/SCT-SUTHERLAND-L/ > > ============================== > Create a FREE family website at MyFamily.com! > http://www.myfamily.com/banner.asp?ID=RWLIST2 > >

Hi Isabella You are absolutely correct! From the book: "Life the first brigade of Selkirk Settlers, whose story this is, the author came from Sutherland, Scotland. The pen-name, Wemyss Cavaick, has more authenticity than most non de plumes, for at his birthplace the young lad who became a prominent businessman, after he had arranged his own migration to the New World, wa commonly identified in just that way. He was thus distinguished from others of his clan through identity with Cavaick, where he was born. The autor's great grandfather, when a boy of ten, witnessed the Battle of Culloden Moor. There was nurtured in Wemyss Cavaick a life long interest in that part of Scotland's history that relates to the travels of the dispossessed when Scottish independence fell. " It does not give his correct name but I think you have guessed correct. His great grandfather who witnessed Culloden was Duncan Grant. He was sheltered and given a home with Murdoch Mackay at Blackwater Falls which is close to the Brora river according to the book - I am uncertain whether or not he used the correct names in his story. Christine Christine Highland Hearts http://www.highlandhearts.com/ -----Original Message----- From: Isabella McGregor [mailto:isabella@mcgregori.fsnet.co.uk] Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2001 10:33 AM To: SCT-SUTHERLAND-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: Interesting Book Hi Christine, Do you know if Wemmys Cavaick is a pen name for the author of "UPROOTED HEATHER" There is maybe no connection here at all, but just the other week I was working on an outside limb of my family tree, the family of Angus Sutherland/Helen McKenzie, they had 7 sons and 1 daughter(the daughter is in my tree), now their youngest son was christened 11th Feb. 1809 Wemmys Erskine Sutherland, they lived at Cavaik, (Cavaik is roughly between Brochrobie and Badnellan in Clyne) I have no more info. on him but I believe some of the family went to Canada. There may be many places called Caviak, but I just thought I would mention it, there might be an outside chance of a connection. Isabella. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Christine Stokes" <chris@northants26.freeserve.co.uk> To: <SCT-SUTHERLAND-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2001 7:35 AM Subject: RE: Interesting Book > Ian, I will certainly be looking for that book. > I have just read a book which is also worth telling you about: > "UPROOTED HEATHER" A Story of the Selkirk Settlers by Wemyss Cavaick. > Unfortunately this book does not have an ISBN but was published by the > Mitchell Press Limited, Vancouver, Canada, in 1967. How I wish I could send > each and every one of you a copy of this wonderful book. > Thanks to a friend in Canada a copy arrived for me yesterday. Returning > from the office last night I picked it up and looked at the first couple of > pages - I went to bed at 2am having not once put the book down! > When time allows I will post a few interesting pages for general reading. > > Christine > Highland Hearts > http://www.highlandhearts.com/ > > -----Original Message----- > From: Ian Morrison [mailto:ianmorrison@msn.com] > Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2001 4:49 AM > To: SCT-SUTHERLAND-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: Interesting Book > > I just finished reading a non-fiction book which I feel would be of interest > to people of Highland ancestry, particularly those now living in North > America. The title is " A DANCE CALLED AMERICA" by James Hunter ; ISBN 1 > 85158 639 3 > > It is an account of the part that emigrants from the Scottish Highlands > played in developing North America, as soldiers, explorers, fur traders, > pioneer settlers , lumberjacks, and railroad builders. > > > Included in the areas covered are North Carolina, Nova Scotia,Quebec, > Ontario, Manitoba, > Alberta, B.C. and Washington State: Highland clearances, including those > from Sutherland/Kildonan and the Earl of Selkirk's scheme are dealt with in > some detail and many names are mentioned. > > The book was lent to me by a friend. It is not in my local library but I > think it is worthwhile checking to see whether it is in yours. > > > Ian > > > ==== SCT-SUTHERLAND Mailing List ==== > You may, at times, wish to check out previous messages to this list. 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With all the recent flurry of stuff about books I have just been inspitred to dig out another James Hunter - "Glencoe and the Indians". I really enjoyed it. The blurb says 'A real life family saga which spans two continents, several centuries and more than thirty generations to link Scotland's clans with the native peoples of the American West.' ISBN 1-84018-001-3, published by Mainstream Publishing, Edinburgh & London, 1996. Some of you might be interested in it. Iain Murray from Inverness.

Ian All James Hunters books are worth reading. He has written many books on Highland history and was once a chair of board for Highlands and Islands enterprise. One I am reading now is Last of the free (A Millennial History of the highlands and Islands) isbn 1-84018-029-3 however this will not help for any research. I purchased my books in Inverness so I can not offer help on that front. All books can be purchased at Amazon ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ian Morrison" <ianmorrison@msn.com> To: <SCT-SUTHERLAND-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2001 3:49 PM Subject: Interesting Book > I just finished reading a non-fiction book which I feel would be of interest to people of Highland ancestry, particularly those now living in North America. The title is " A DANCE CALLED AMERICA" by James Hunter ; ISBN 1 85158 639 3 > > It is an account of the part that emigrants from the Scottish Highlands played in developing North America, as soldiers, explorers, fur traders, pioneer settlers , lumberjacks, and railroad builders. > > > Included in the areas covered are North Carolina, Nova Scotia,Quebec, Ontario, Manitoba, > Alberta, B.C. and Washington State: Highland clearances, including those from Sutherland/Kildonan and the Earl of Selkirk's scheme are dealt with in some detail and many names are mentioned. > > The book was lent to me by a friend. It is not in my local library but I think it is worthwhile checking to see whether it is in yours. > > > Ian > > > ==== SCT-SUTHERLAND Mailing List ==== > You may, at times, wish to check out previous messages to this list. You can do this at http://archiver.rootsweb.com/SCT-SUTHERLAND-L/ > > ============================== > Visit Ancestry's Library - The best collection of family history > learning and how-to articles on the Internet. > http://www.ancestry.com/learn/library > >