"CONTENTdm"@en . "Clandonald and Scottish immigration to Canada"@en . "Clandonald"@en . "Canada--Emigration and immigration"@en . "Colonists"@en . "Scots"@en . "Wallace B. Chung and Madeline H. Chung Collection"@en . "MacDonell, Andrew"@en . "2017-08-28"@en . "1952-11-24"@en . "https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/chungtext/items/1.0354814/source.json"@en . "application/pdf"@en . " \u00E2\u0080\u0094 JJLi- -l\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 ^ \u00E2\u0080\u0094 \u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00C2\u00AB i W^\t\nAt our meting in December of 1950, when a wry full report on\nth\u00C2\u00A9 Clanfionald Colony was given by Mr. Gresswell, 1 was asked if I had\nanything to say. I declined to speak. Bier\u00C2\u00A9 was aueh to say and\nthought wae advisable.\nfhere is no question about ift the Colony is not & paying concern;\n4t will sever be eo ia a financial sense,\nThere are sever\u00C2\u00A9! reasons - conditions of land, climate, prices\nof crops, depression, ineatperieno\u00C2\u00A9 and evil advice.\n\ xhe lend was all raw land, the settlers had little\nexperience in farming and no experience whatsoever in dealing\nwith raw land, either in breaking, brushing or clearing.\nfIhey were all or nearly all very poor and unable to provide\ntheraselvas with ordinary everyday needs - they were provided\nwith just a minimum of farm implements and now enough power ~\ntheir progress for the first few years was lamentably limited.\n'Biey were in many oases unable to clear enough land to enable\ntheir families to est, audi less to enable thesa to sake payments on their farms.\n%\u00C2\u00A9y had signed their \"Agreement of Sale\", on which was\n,\u00C2\u00AB detailed the price of land, house, barn, well, implements and\nstock, fhey were told that they would not be asked to make a\npayment for two or three years, then when they were confronted:-\n(1) with their indebtedness, which; was considerably\nincreased by sobs\u00C2\u00A9 years of interest, compounded;\n(g) and with a price of 10^ or IS^f a bushel for their\nwheat cropj\nfor many it was just & death blew to their hopes.\nthe Colony started ia 1986.\nfh\u00C2\u00A9 depression struck in 19E9 and continued. Over sad above, there\nwere always those who were ready with advice. From th\u00C2\u00A9 \"old timers5* it was*\n\"What the hell brought you here? m can't make & living her\u00C2\u00A9 and how can\nyou expect to do betters Another would advise, \"Den't bother about your\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 payments - it is the Government, or it is the C.F.fi. - auch the same.\" All\nwas clinched when somewhat later Aberhaxt eaiaa on and \u00E2\u0096\u00A0cold all not to pay\non farms, or words to that general affect.\nIt seems to b\u00C2\u00A9 the case that organised settlement on the land is not\ngreatly successful ia Canada.\nThe Canadian Government soldiers\u00C2\u00BB Settlement scheme after the \u00C2\u00A3$*\u00E2\u0080\u00A2\u00C2\u00BB*\nGreat <8m could not be rated as successful, Slow \u00C2\u00A36,000 Canadian soldiers -\nA - I -\nCont'd\nfsnaew or sons of tanmaee - were settled. It is doubtful if 8,000 are\nstill on their farms, and I reoesiber when a loss of \u00C2\u00A738,000,000 was\ndeclared, and that was sot the ultimate figure.\nihe 3000 family Scheme, promoted by the Canadian Ck*v\u00C2\u00A9r\u00C2\u00BBm\u00C2\u00A9nt and\nfinanced by the British Government, oould not be claimed as an outstanding\nsuccess even though previews experience might have helped had certain\nofficials been open to suggestions.\nThe 3000 Family Scheme was started by officers of the S.SJB. on\nth\u00C2\u00A9 line\u00C2\u00A9 of work done for a Biigration of Hebrideans by Mr. U, Gordon,\nSuperintendent of the S.S.B. in Edmonton, and myself in 1923.\n1 had known that for several years families from the Hebrides\nvery anxious to migrate and settle on the land in Canada, aer\u00C2\u00A9 had b0mn\nas siany a\u00C2\u00A9 tea separate migrations to Canada from the Hebrides, beginning\nas early aa 1973. fhe on\u00C2\u00A9 immediately preceding ours was in 18G5. They\nsettled near wapella in Saskatchewan. Our first contingent of 340 souls\nwere settled in 1983.\ntasadistely after their settlement the Scottish 1%-aigrsnt Aid\nSociety was incorporated under th\u00C2\u00A9 laws of th\u00C2\u00A9 Dominion on a non-prof it\nsharing basis\nIn 19g4 a second contingent of 860 souls (or 48 families) easi\u00C2\u00A9\nfrom th\u00C2\u00A9 Hebrides, k few were settled on farms iaaaediately on arrival,\nbut the sain body were found oottages on farsis to live in and work for\nfarmers in their neighbourhood.\nTh\u00C2\u00A9 first work done through th\u00C2\u00AE Society was th\u00C2\u00A9 building of fourteen\ncottages to house immigrants on their first arrival, \u00C2\u00A9specially if they had\nn\u00C2\u00A9 money, four of th\u00C2\u00A9 S.I.A.S. Birsctors contributed $10,B00 towards th\u00C2\u00A9\nbuilding of theae cottages*\nThe Clandonald Colony eoraaeneed settlement in !\u00C2\u00A7\u00E2\u0080\u00A2#\u00C2\u00AB \u00C2\u00ABs\u00C2\u00A9 had in\nCanada waiting aora\u00C2\u00A9 forty-eight families of Hebrideans who, as stated above,\nwere working on farms. Besides, there were many other families in scotliind\nand Ireland asking to com\u00C2\u00A9 to Canada, and get settled under the auspices of\nour society.\nAbout this ties\u00C2\u00A9 I was told of a tract of load north of YttttillMu\nIt consisted of 3t,000 acres of raw land. It was held % a Belgian syndicate\n' - ' WM - I -\nCont'd\nin Slanipeg. I learnt that it w held cheaply as the syndicate wanted\nto sell, fbe Belgian franc at this time m cheap. I went te Winnipeg\nand interviewed the representatives of th\u00C2\u00A9 syndicate, fheaaa t proceeded\nto Montreal and got an interview with the Resident of the 0,1**8. Thia\ninterview wan arranged for m by the chief CobkiIb\u00C2\u00A9 loner of ColoaliatiOB\nof the eoragM&ny m Golosel Dennis who was my Tie\u00C2\u00A9-ftr\u00C2\u00A9\u00C2\u00BBtd#at.\n1 \u00C2\u00AEag?laia\u00C2\u00A9d t\u00C2\u00A9 the 2*n\u00C2\u00BBai4\u00C2\u00BBat that this tract of land that I\nconsidered suitable for the settlement of talstlgraat\u00C2\u00A9 was just forty miles\nwest of th\u00C2\u00A9 present end of' steel of m@ Out Knife branch of the C.P.&\nline. In a few weeks the lias would be through this taut and th\u00C2\u00A9 railway\nwould be th\u00C2\u00A9 better of a Colony planed astride tt*\nland.\nI*ss than five slant\u00C2\u00A9\u00C2\u00A9* talk got us the loan of $100,000 to buy the\nShortly after this iatesnriew 1 proceeded to London to place th\u00C2\u00A9 plan\nbefore th\u00C2\u00A9 overseas settlement Department, \u00C2\u00A9ad to ask for \u00C2\u00A7100,000 f\u00C2\u00AB*\u00C2\u00BB them\nto provide fl\u00C2\u00BB-000 for the pappose of buying stock and equipment for \u00C2\u00A9aeh of\non\u00C2\u00A9 hundred faalli\u00C2\u00AB\u00C2\u00BB\u00C2\u00BB fbey agreed* I wae asked about th\u00C2\u00A9 providing of\nhouses and bams. Our tract of land was- altogether raw land, and had nmm\nbeen occupied. Th\u00C2\u00A9 price of 100 cottage\u00C2\u00A9 and 100 bams w\u00C2\u00A9 computed to be\nabout $88,000. $&\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 Oversea\u00C2\u00A9 settlement Department \u00C2\u00A9greed-to pay half. If\nwe provided th\u00C2\u00A9 first half. Shat nm\u00C2\u00AE fair, so I got busy with Hf Advisory\nBoard la th\u00C2\u00A9 Baited Kingdom. Jjord I*ovat was w Chairman, 0ol\u00C2\u00AB Hon. Angus\nMcDonnell, lion. James Stewart and Sir J\u00C2\u00ABa\u00C2\u00A9a Gaidar, \u00C2\u00BBir#ctor#.\nI went to \u00C2\u00AB#\u00C2\u00A9 lord lav&t and \u00C2\u00A9splaiaed th\u00C2\u00A9 problem. H\u00C2\u00A9 told ma that\nI was in luck ae he saw it. He, at th\u00C2\u00A9 time, sas busy selling and realising\non a training far\u00C2\u00AE that fee \u00C2\u00A9nd others had set up some years before in South\nAfrica, i.e., after th\u00C2\u00AE Boer ear* It wae a\u00C2\u00A9 long\u00C2\u00AE!1 needed, and h# was\nengaged la returning sioftlea after th\u00C2\u00A9 sal\u00C2\u00A9 to certain gentleman who had lent\nsssas to \u00C2\u00A9at up thin training farm, tt\u00C2\u00A9 told a\u00C2\u00A9 that h\u00C2\u00A9 would state onr need\nwhen writing to the gentlemen mentioned sad suggest that peifeapa they might\nplace soa\u00C2\u00A9 of their mmy in.thia new settlement sohem\u00C2\u00A9 of our\u00C2\u00AE. In the\ncourts\u00C2\u00A9 of a few days he had $Lo,000 for us. Colonel Hon* 4ngt*a J&ftmaell\nalso approached eoma of Ms fri \u00C2\u00A9Ms and in short order hod \u00C2\u00A710,009} and I\nbegged a third $10,000 from east\u00C2\u00A9 generous friends - thus in' three weeks w\u00C2\u00AB\nhad 480,000\nShan I mad\u00C2\u00A9 this known to th# 0.8.0., they geaamasly regarded that\nas evidence that m Could obtain soiaahow th\u00C2\u00A9 balance of \u00C2\u00A7M,OO0\u00C2\u00BB\nm w\u00C2\u00A9\u00C2\u00BB tbUB enabled to \u00C2\u00A9able to Alberta to net \u00C2\u00A9oittraetera going at\nbuilding eottages and barns. Colonel Seanis had arrived An Ionian \u00C2\u00A9ad was mm\nwith m when m cabled to Alberts to jnnmnm*. with th\u00C2\u00A9 programme w\u00C2\u00A9 had\nsrsanged b\u00C2\u00ABfor\u00C2\u00A9 leaving Canada* 1\u00C2\u00BB about two months' time loo cottage\u00C2\u00A9\n(small four-roomed cottages) and 100 bams C font 4 how\u00C2\u00A9\u00C2\u00A9 and a \u00C2\u00A9owe)\nwar\u00C2\u00A9 built.\nla th\u00C2\u00A9 late Spring of 19S\u00C2\u00A9 th\u00C2\u00A9 f\u00C2\u00A9rty-*ight Mabrtdeaa faaiMw,\nwho war\u00C2\u00A9 working on Canadian fame \u00C2\u00A9lac\u00C2\u00A9 1824 at different point\u00C2\u00A9 in\nth\u00C2\u00AE general area from Kai sear to' xetmonton, war\u00C2\u00A9 moved onto farms and\nwer\u00C2\u00AE supervised by Father Hwlntyjc\u00C2\u00A9 and ilevill\u00C2\u00A9 Aabartaon*\nlb\u00C2\u00A9 Bebrideaaa mm all fairly \u00C2\u00ABat\u00C2\u00BBbllah\u00C2\u00ABi when I \u00C2\u00BB@at over from\nIreland \u00C2\u00A9l\u00C2\u00A9v\u00C2\u00ABa families and %m\u00C2\u00AE waaks later arrived -with forty-en\u00C2\u00A9 mor\u00C2\u00A9\nfamilies from Haglaad, I#\u00C2\u00A9laad and a few from Scotland*\nfhls lattar crowd arrived in \u00C2\u00A5\u00C2\u00A9B\u00C2\u00BBllioa \u00C2\u00A9a a special train sad th\u00C2\u00A9\nesre conveying turn were put onto & aiding, and from these care w\u00C2\u00A9 concentrated on sending th\u00C2\u00A9 a\u00C2\u00A9ttiara out to their allotted farm\u00C2\u00A9, each\nfamily in It\u00C2\u00A9 mm. *agon, with their belonging\u00C2\u00A9, beside\u00C2\u00A9 bade, table,\nchairs, and atov\u00C2\u00A9 and \u00C2\u00A9tov\u00C2\u00AE pipe\u00C2\u00A9.\nlack family on aa average numbered six souls, li h&& thus la a\ncomparatively short tin\u00C2\u00A9 filled on\u00C2\u00A9 hundred farms and their cottage\u00C2\u00A9 with\nfamilies.\nMany of thaaa families, \u00C2\u00A9apacially those that cam\u00C2\u00A9 in this year\n(Its\u00C2\u00A9! wer\u00C2\u00AE very poor, and m had t\u00C2\u00A9 provide th\u00C2\u00A9 wh\u00C2\u00A9r\u00C2\u00ABaltnal to feed them*\nThousands of dollars had to b# obtained from my slrector\u00C2\u00AE and other\u00C2\u00A9 for\nthe purpose. It was remarkable how several of th\u00C2\u00A9\u00C2\u00AB* families seemed t\u00C2\u00A9\ntak\u00C2\u00A9 for granted that they should be fed by the Society * thia was\naspsolsllijr true of many of those who had beam soldiers - they \u00C2\u00A9#\u00C2\u00ABij\u00C2\u00BB\u00C2\u00AB to\nthink that aa army quartermaster mm still responsible, and would provide\nth\u00C2\u00ABeg|^h*\n1\u00C2\u00A9 had broken and plough\u00C2\u00A9! some tea acres on each farm so that th*\npeople could plant potato\u00C2\u00A9\u00C2\u00A9, *to\u00C2\u00AB, for themselves and oats for their horses.\nSmb family ^m provided with sow\u00C2\u00A9 furniture, two horses and tun ecwa, and\nessential machinery, and when taay were guided oat to thai? faint\u00C2\u00A9 boa\u00C2\u00AE\u00C2\u00AE\nthey wsr\u00C2\u00A9 provided with \u00C2\u00A9sough food for two ssaths*\nTh\u00C2\u00A9 head of the family was then advised of all that h\u00C2\u00A9 wad \u00C2\u00A9nd\nvbieh had to b\u00C2\u00A9 repaid la the future, li\u00C2\u00A9 was given aa \"jigreameut of sal\u00C2\u00AE*\ndetailing th\u00C2\u00A9 prie\u00C2\u00A9 of the land, th\u00C2\u00A9 house, and tea, th\u00C2\u00A9 horses, \u00C2\u00A9cm\u00C2\u00A9 and\nma\u00C2\u00A9hia\u00C2\u00BBry.\nThe document \u00C2\u00ABw 1st* with hia for at least two \u00C2\u00AB\u00C2\u00A9\u00C2\u00ABk\u00C2\u00BB to study\nbefore h\u00C2\u00A9 was asked te sign so that n* could faaillarlM himself and know\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 **\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 a !\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\nV\nm g -\nall that h\u00C2\u00A9 would be called on later to pay for. fhls \"Agreement \u00C2\u00A9f\nSale\" was also, I think, a mistake unleaa they mm able to make a\nsubstantial down payment; they should have been put \u00C2\u00A9a a rental basis.\nThat would have given them from th\u00C2\u00A9 b\u00C2\u00ABglnniag a seas\u00C2\u00A9 of responsibility -\nand they would have knows their obligation. \u00C2\u00ABh\u00C2\u00A9 \"Agreement of Sal\u00C2\u00A9\"\n.gave them a \u00C2\u00A9tat\u00C2\u00AE of security which ia very many cas\u00C2\u00AB\u00C2\u00A9 was shamefully\nabused* m much for that.\nThe mm, were advised that a\u00C2\u00A9 soon as possible they ahouid go out\nto work for other farmers and earn enough money to help than ov\u00C2\u00AEr th*\ncoming winter. Besides, th\u00C2\u00A9 experience would b\u00C2\u00A9 very valuable.\nI\u00C2\u00A9 had, however, to contend with a mental attitude that gav\u00C2\u00A9 mueh\ntrouble. Many of th\u00C2\u00A9 people wer\u00C2\u00A9 literally abnormal for th\u00C2\u00A9 first six\nmonths or more. The smallest of our farms was 100 acres in extent, and\nmany of th\u00C2\u00A9 settlers had been on fiv\u00C2\u00A9 or sis acre holdings at home* Som\u00C2\u00A9\nhad been farm labourers* Shay were overwhelmed by th* Idea and f\u00C2\u00A9ar of\nworking 100 acres.\nlh\u00C2\u00A9 women particularly war\u00C2\u00A9 in a bad way. they were loud ia their\ndenunciation of Mthls God-forsaken country**, m they said. All this,\nhowever, passed away in a few month\u00C2\u00A9\u00C2\u00AB time, aa soon ae th\u00C2\u00A9y @\u00C2\u00A9t to\nrealize and understand. 1 had been most careful that not on\u00C2\u00A9 of them\ncould ever say that I had persuaded them to com\u00C2\u00A9 to Canada, fhmj had all\napplied to Canadian authorities before 1 ever saw them, or knew anything\nof them* ?4y stand always was, *If you havs mad\u00C2\u00A9 up your mind that you\nsr\u00C2\u00A9 going t\u00C2\u00A9 Canada, I am ia a position to do so-and-so for you t\u00C2\u00A9 help\nyour settlement.* Seldom was ther\u00C2\u00A9 any trouble with th\u00C2\u00A9 Hebrideans but\nthat could not b\u00C2\u00A9 said of som\u00C2\u00A9 others.\nIt was after w\u00C2\u00A9 had settled our first on\u00C2\u00A9 hundred families on th\u00C2\u00A9\nOlaadonald area that the Colony of St* Bride was established. later w\u00C2\u00A9\nput into th\u00C2\u00A9 Olaadonald Colony SO Intension farms, 37 C.P.R. farms, and\nEO Hudson's Bay farms. Th\u00C2\u00A9 Hudson's Bay twenty have all left th\u00C2\u00A9 farms\nwith the exception of two, and gone to'other mxk,\nAll in all, w\u00C2\u00A9 compute that wa placed about 400 families on farms\nof their own, including the first 380 Hebridean\u00C2\u00A9 who wer\u00C2\u00A9 settled before\nth\u00C2\u00A9 8*X*A\u00E2\u0080\u009ES. was Incorporated - and th\u00C2\u00A9 Colony of St, Bride that were\nsettled under th\u00C2\u00A9 SOW family scheme* They war\u00C2\u00A9 given from tw*aty-fiv\u00C2\u00A9\nto thirty years to pay for their farms. Ifeny of oar families war\u00C2\u00A9 not\nable to hold on but, on the whale, they did better in proportion than th\u00C2\u00A9\nsoldiers under th\u00C2\u00A9 Soldiers' Settlement Schema \u00C2\u00AB though these war\u00C2\u00A9 all\nCanadians with knowledge of Canadian farming - sad they did as well if\nnet better than th\u00C2\u00A9 bulk of the 3000 Family eehem\u00C2\u00A9.\ntondoa,\n24th November, 1952."@en . "Manuscripts"@en . "CC_TX_281_019"@en . "10.14288/1.0354814"@en . "English"@en . "Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library"@en . "CC-EX-9.1"@en . "Images provided for research and reference use only. Permission to publish, copy or otherwise use these images must be obtained from Rare Books and Special Collections: http://rbsc.library.ubc.ca/"@en . "Original Format: University of British Columbia. Library. Rare Books and Special Collections. The Chung Collection. CC-TX-281-19"@en . "Report prepared for the Scottish Immigrant Aid Society regarding the Clandonald colony"@en . "Text"@en . ""@en .