Comments on: The Megantic Outlaw: the Show, in Uig 14 July

By: Les

Les — Thu, 28 May 2009 16:15:55 +0000

Put it off for a year, or get it booked again next year. Please, please, please!

Music is something I’m really looking forward to whether it’s the big production in town or just an old fellow with a fiddle or accordion in the local community hall.

By: Angus Macdonald

Angus Macdonald — Thu, 28 May 2009 01:23:40 +0000

… and another excellent book is Crofters and habitants: settler society, economy, and culture in a Quebec township, 1848-1881, by J.I. Little. Montreal: Queen’s University Press, 1991 368p. ISBN 0-7735-0807-4. The author here compares the experiences of the Lewis crofters and the French-speaking ‘habitants’ from south of Quebec City who settled that part of the world (Winslow Township). The book is still available (I bought my copy a few years ago) and can be had through Global Genealogy (globalgenealogy.com) in Milton, Ontario. They are offering it at $Can80.00.

You might also be interested in the cemeteries of the Eastern townships, which are at http://users.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~qcetcem/cemeteries_of_the_eastern_townships_002.htm
These pages record the burials that took place in the cemeteries in each county.

By: sarah

sarah — Wed, 27 May 2009 22:26:22 +0000

Hi Norman

This site is a good starting point:
http://www.geocities.com/~hebridscots/contents.htm

Do you know Margaret Bennett’s book Oatmeal and the Catechism – it’s a good source, and also Lucille Campey’s Les Ecossais. Chapter 5 of this last one begins “The Lewis settlers of the Eastern Townships deserve special recognition for their heroic colonization feats.”

Bill Lawson has done some family histories too.

If you can do any research into Uigeachs there, we’d love to publish it.

By: Norman Macdonald

Norman Macdonald — Wed, 27 May 2009 22:17:44 +0000

Being in Canada of a Uig born father, I would love to know more about Uigeach settlements in Quebec. I live about 3 hours from Quebec and it would be a short jaunt to find out some more history of those who emigrated to Canada long before my side of the family(1948)