Books and Articles
Books and Articles
by or about the Hebridean Scots of the Eastern Townships
by or about the Hebridean Scots of the Eastern Townships
By trench and trail in song and story, by Angus MacKay (Oscar Dhu), (Seattle and Vancouver : MacKay Printing and Publishing, 1918), 144 p. [OCLC 11491844, film OCLC 29783856]
Subjects: ?
Locations: several locations; I have a copy
Oscar & Finlay : bards of Scottish Lingwick, compiled and edited by T.A. McKay (Arlington, VA : T.A. McKay, 2000), 402 p.
Oatmeal and the Catechism: Scottish Gaelic Settlers in Quebec, by Margaret Bennett (McGill-Queen's Studies in Ethnic History, 2.3) (cloth, 1998, ISBN 077351810X, paper, 2004, ISBN 0773527753)
Crofters and habitants: settler society, economy, and culture in a Quebec township 1848-1881, by J. I. Little (Montréal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1991), 368 p., ISBN 0773508074 [OCLC 28063492]
Subjects: Winslow (Township) (Québec) -- History/Winslow (Township) (Québec) -- Social conditions
Description: On Winslow township mostly, lots on Compton County.
Locations: LC, Harvard, Bishop's, & elsewhere
Cultural retention & demographic change : studies of the Hebridean Scots in the eastern townships of Quebec, ed. by (Catherine Mary) Laurel Doucette, editor (Ottawa : National Museums of Canada, 1980), 170 p., maps (Mercury series. Paper - Canadian Centre for Folk Culture Studies ; no.34, ISSN 0316-1897), Abstract in French. Bibliography: p. 157-164. [OCLC 6753434]
Subjects: Scots -- Québec (Province) -- Eastern Townships/Eastern Townships (Québec) -- Emigration and immigration
Locations: LC, Harvard, Bishop's, & elsewhere
Les Écossais: The Pioneer Scots of Lower Canada (Quebec), 1763-1855, by Lucille H. Campey (Natural Heritage Books, 2006), 332 p., 58 illustrations, 12 maps [ISBN 189704514X]
Ethno-cultural transition and regional identity in the Eastern Townships of Quebec, by J. I. Little (Ottawa, Ont. : Canadian Historical Association, 1989), ISBN 088798116X, 31 p. : maps (Canada's ethnic groups ; booklet no. 13) Includes bibliographical references (p. 29-31) ISBN 088798116X [OCLC 21095028]
Subjects: Acculturation--Quebec (Province)--Eastern Townships/Eastern Townships (Quebec)--History/Eastern Townships (Quebec)--Ethnic relations/Ethnicity -- Québec (Province) -- Eastern Townships/Eastern Townships (Québec) -- Social conditions
Locations: Harvard, Bishop's, & elsewhere
Hier, le canton de Lingwick = Yesterday, the Township of Lingwick (1855-1980), by Daniel Bolduc et al. (s.l., s.n., 1980), 84 p., "À l'occasion du 125e anniversaire - 1855-1980 - 125th anniversary."
Subjects: Lingwick Township (Québec)
Locations: LC-?; NLC-?; Bishop's; OC-?; RLIN-?
Nationalism, capitalism, and colonization in nineteenth-century Quebec : the upper St. Francis District, by J. I. Little (Kingston : McGill-Queen's University Press, 1989), 306 p. [OCLC 23047025]
Subjects: Land settlement -- Québec (Province) -- Wolfe (Census division) -- History -- 19th century/Land settlement -- Quebec (Province) -- Saint-Francois River/Region (Yamaska) -- History -- 19th century/Wolfe (Quebec : Census division) -- History/Saint-François River Region (Yamaska, Quebec) -- History/Eastern Townships (Québec) -- Colonization
Descriptions: Reviewed in Ethnic and racial studies v.13 (Apr. 1990), 299-300
Locations: LC, Harvard, Bishop's, & elsewhere
Paroisse Saint-Paul de Scotstown : historique, 1891-1991, par Gilles Baril (La Patrie, Que.: G. Baril, 1991), 110 p. [OCLC 25367636]
Subjects: ?
Locations: NLC, I have a copy
La poussee gaélique écossaise dans les Cantons de L'Est, par Mgr. Albert Gravel (Pages d'historie regionale, cahier no. 23.) (Sherbrooke: s.n., 1967), 22 leaves.
Subjects: Scots -- Québec (Province) -- Eastern Townships
Locations: Bishop's; Harvard
"The bard in a community in transition and decline: Oscar Dhu and the Hebridean Scots of the Upper St. Francis district of Quebec," by J.I. Little, Canadian papers in rural history (1995): 45-80.
Locations: ?
"Ethnic succession in the Eastern Townships of Quebec," by J. I. Prattis. Anthropologica 22:2 (1980), 215-235. (Gaelic speaking settlements in Compton County, 1829-1976).
Locations: ?
"Folkways and religion of the Quebec Hebridean homes," by Margaret Bennett-Knight, in Cultural retention and demographic change, ed. by Laurel Doucette (Ottawa : National Museums of Canada, 1980), pp. 45-144. [OCLC 6753434]
Locations: Harvard, Bishop's, & elsewhere
"From the Isle of Lewis to the Eastern Townships : the origins of a highland settlement community in Quebec, 1838-1881," by J.I. Little, in The immigrant experience, proceedings of a conference held at the University of Guelph, 8-11 June 1989, ed. by Catherine Kerrigan (University of Guelph, 1992), pp. 31-56. [OCLC 25368763]
Locations: NLC, Harvard, & elsewhere
"Gaelic Scots...", by Bill Lawson, Western Ontario historical notes (London, Ont., University of Western Ontario Library) 10, 2 (Juin 1952??): 40-43.
Locations: NLC, NYP, Harvard (lacks this issue), AQM(MA), SNN(MA) & elsewhere
"Immigrant file: when the first Scots came from Lewis," by Bernard Epps, The Record (Sherbrooke, PQ), 21 Oct. 1988.
Locations: ?
"Lewis settlers in the Eastern Townships," by Margaret Ross, Canadian magazine 61 (June 1923), 171-76. (copied)
Locations: ?
"Popular voices in print : the local newspaper correspondents of an extended Scots-Canadian Community, 1894," by J. I. Little, Revue d'études canadiennes/Journal of Canadian studies ? (199x), 134-55 (copied)
Locations: ?
"Social History of the Quebec Hebridean settlements," by Sharon Bohn Gmelch, in Cultural retention and demographic change, ed. by Laurel Doucette (Ottawa : National Museums of Canada, 1980), pp. 5-44. [OCLC 6753434]
Locations: Harvard, Bishop's, & elsewhere
"Studies in the Scottish Gaelic folk-song tradition in Canada," by Nancy Rose Dunkly, Ph.D. Thesis, Harvard University, 1984. [OCLC 11150061, microfilm: OCLC 18867531 & 12764154]
Subjects: ?
Locations: Harvard Loeb Mus: 181.325 Seager Room, NYP
"Memoirs of Dell," John Austin MacLeod (ms.)
Locations: NLC=?; I have a copy
"Townships talk," by Ian Tait (1981), 209 p. ms.
Locations: National Museums of Canada, LC=?; NLC-?; OCLC=0; RLIN=?; Bishop's-?
Le bien-aimé: roman, par André Mathieu (Saint-Eustache, Editions André Matthieu, 1983), ? p. [OCLC 15948611, 22654468] (RELEVANT?)
Locations: NLC, LC, BPL & elsewhere
Donald et Marion: roman, par André Mathieu (Saint-Eustache, Editions de La Louve, 1990), ? p. (RELEVANT?) [OCLC 21905342]
Locations: NLC
Donald Morrison: from cowboy to outlaw, by Albert Gravel, trans. into English by (Mrs. Ross) Ida MacDonald (Scotstown, Que.: [I. MacDonald], 1973), 15 f.
Locations: Bishop's; OC=?
Donald Morrison : the Canadian outlaw, a tale of the Scottish pioneers, by Oscar Dhu, nomme de plume of Angus B. MacKay, Enhanced centennial ed., ed. by T.A. McKay, (Arlington, VA, The Author; Stanwood, Wash. : Caroline Hall, 1993), 135 p., OCLC 30455080
Locations: LC, WAU, & elsewhere; I have a copy; avail. from the author
Donald Morrison: The Canadian outlaw, a tale of the Scottish pioneers, Angus MacKay (Oscar Dhu) (s.l.: s.n., 1892), 118 p. (repr. Sherbrooke, Page-Sangster, 1965).
Locations: Harvard, OC=?; RLIN=?; Bishop's=?
The Megantic outlaw, by Henry G. Kidd (Montreal, Price-Patterson, 1948), 139 p., ISBN 089688105X
Locations: Bishop's
The outlaw of Megantic, by Bernard Epps (Toronto: McClelland and Stuart, [1973]), 157 p. [OCLC 15770154, 788543]
Description: On Donald Morrison.
Subjects: Morrison, Donald, 1858-1894 -- Fiction
Locations: NLC, Harvard, Bishop's, & elsewhere
Wanted--Donald Morrison: the true story of the Megantic outlaw, by Clarke Wallace (Toronto.: Doubleday Canada; Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1977), 221 p., 0385126476 (well-written historical fiction of the affair). [OCLC 3001015]
Subjects: Morrison, Donald, 1858-1894
Criminals -- Québec (Province) -- Biography
Crime -- Québec (Province)
Locations: Harvard, Bishop's, & elsewhere
"Megantic outlaw and his times: ethnic tensions in Quebec in the 1880's," by Ronald Rudin, Canadian ethnic studies 18:1(1986): 16-31.
Locations: ?
"Poor Donald," in The bad and the lonely: seven stories of the best - and worst - Canadian outlaws, by Martin Robin (Toronto, James Lorimer, 1976), 221 p., (pp. 37-64). ISBN 0888621213 cf. [OCLC 2817096]
Locations: Harvard, & elsewhere
"Popular resistance to legal authority in the Upper St. Francis district of Quebec: the Megantic outlaw affair of 1888-1889," by J.I. Little, Labour/Le Travail 33 (Spring 1994) 97?-124.
"The Megantic Outlaw," ed. by Clarke Mackey and ? (1971) CBC drama, 90 min..
Awards: "Best Television Drama" Canadian Film Awards, 1971; "Best Actress-TV" Canadian Film Awards, 1971.