I sign up for a lot of webinars related to my areas of research. That's probably part of the reason that I get distracted from whatever genealogical path I've been exploring. A recent talk put on by the Scottish SIG of the Ontario Genealogical Society caught my eye as it had the title, Scots in the Maritimes. I have Scottish lines of research and some of those families ended up in the Maritimes, so I signed up.
The speaker, Peggy Homans Chapman, presented a comprehensive view of records available about Scottish migrants in New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and PEI. I already knew a lot of the information she covered, like the wonderful books by Lucille Campey, but she mentioned some different and new to me items and databases that I want to explore.
One of the themes of her presentation about where the Scots settled showed that religion had a role to play in who settled where. I had found that in my own research. My ears perked up when she talked about the story of a priest who met boats coming in to Pictou to deter the Catholic Scots from putting down roots there. She thought it was just an old story but I was able to put the names of the priest, MacEachern, in the chat because I came upon that information in a story I covered in this blog.
The story I had about the priest differed somewhat as MacEachern wasn't meeting the newcomers, he advised people already settled in Pictou to move to Antigonish, where the Catholics had settled. this was part of the story I covered when I wrote about John Brack McNeil back in 2020. His story started with the December 14, 2019 blog post Loyalist or just loyal and continued for six more blog posts in 2020 commencing with The Search for John McNeil. It was interesting to be reminded of this story and the research I had done in those areas of Nova Scotia. Now I'll have to see if I can find some similar information on my Scots who went to PEI.
Sources:
Information about Angus Bernard MacEachern the priest from PEI who came to Pictou https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angus_Bernard_MacEachern
Blog posts related to the story:
Loyalist or just loyal? - December 14, 2019 https://genihistorypath.blogspot.com/2019/12/loyalist-or-just-loyal.html
The Search for John McNeil - January 11, 2020 https://genihistorypath.blogspot.com/2020/01/the-search-for-john-mcneil.html
Other
related blog posts: The Riddle
of the Three John McNeils January 18, 2020
Putting Down Roots by Chance January
25, 2020
The Power of Religion February 1,
2020
Notable in Malignant Cove February
8, 2020
A Will Adds Dates to the Timeline
February 15, 2020
Scottish Names February 22, 2020
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