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Comments on: Highland Clearances Influence Composer http://109.74.200.198/highland-clearances-influence-composer/ Sat, 21 Jan 2017 20:38:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: Nadine Lee http://109.74.200.198/highland-clearances-influence-composer/#comment-514 Nadine Lee Thu, 28 Mar 2013 12:33:10 +0000 http://www.bletherskite.net/?p=4468#comment-514 Sounds like a good read – thanks for your comment, Tsu!

]]> By: Tsu Dho Nimh http://109.74.200.198/highland-clearances-influence-composer/#comment-513 Tsu Dho Nimh Wed, 27 Mar 2013 16:20:08 +0000 http://www.bletherskite.net/?p=4468#comment-513 There is a book – one of the ancestor-worshipping sort – it’s called “The Men of Kildonan”. Despite being called a “romance”, it’s non-fiction.

If you sift out all the blather and most of the skite you have some good detail about the stay at Hudson Bay (near Churchill), the route they took to get to the Red River, and some of the early events.

What my mom the geneaologist could cross check with other records was accurate, and what another geneaologist checked against his own records was also accurate. He was amused to be descended from the low-life Irish the fine upstanding Scots author ranted about.

I’m descended from the Selkirk Scots*, plus the shiftless French and untrustworthy Indians of that area.

:)

*(Clan MacBeth, Sutherland, Campbell and McDonald

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