Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter iii
2. Contents ix
3. Illustrations xi
4. Tables xiii
5. Introduction xv
6. Shaping
7. The Scots’ Imaging of Canada 3
8. Exiles or Entrepreneurs? Snapshots of the Scots in Canada 22
9. A Man’s a Man because of That: The Scots in the Canadian Military Experience 40
10. The Curious Tale of the Scots and the Fur Trade: An Historiographical Account 60
11. Sojourners in the Snow? The Scots in Business in Nineteenth-Century Canada 76
12. Creating
13. Thistles in the North: The Direct and Indirect Scottish Influence on James Bay Cree Material Culture 99
14. Aspects of Scottish-Canadian Material Culture: Heart Brooches and Scottish Pottery 122
15. A Scottish-born Silversmith in Montreal: Robert Cruikshank 137
16. “Bonnie Lassies” and a “Coat of Many Colours”: Highland-Inspired Clothing at the McCord Museum 149
17. Building
18. Sir William Logan and Sir J.W. Dawson: Victorian Geology as Scottish Science in a New World Environment 167
19. The Seed, the Soil, and the Climate: The Scottish Influence on Canadian Medical Education and Practice, 1775–1875 183
20. A Scout of the Past: Ramsay Traquair and the Legacy of the National Art Survey of Scotland in Quebec 201
21. Scottish Identity and British Loyalty in Early-Nineteenth-Century Montreal 211
22. “In the Hallowed Name of Religion”: Scots and Public Education in Nineteenth-Century Montreal 227
23. Butcher, Baker, Cabinetmaker? A View of Montreal’s Scottish Immigrant Community from 1835 to 1865 242
24. Acknowledgments 261
25. Contributors 263
26. Index 265