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First the Duke of Cumberland’s Redcoats hunted down the clansmen who had escaped from Culloden. Prisoners were treated so badly that they died in their hundreds. The survivors were sent to the American plantations as slave labour.
Terry Deary (Scotland (Horrible Histories Special))
Canada is not so much a country as a holding tank filled with the disgruntled progeny of defeated peoples. French-Canadians consumed by self-pity; the descendants of Scots who fled the Duke of Cumberland; Irish, the famine; and Jews, the Black Hundreds. Then there are the peasants from Ukraine, Poland, Italy and Greece, convenient to grow wheat and dig out the ore and swing the hammers and run the restaurants, but otherwise to be kept in their place. Most of us are huddled tight to the border, looking into the candy store window, scared of the Americans on one side and of the bush on the other. And now that we are here, prospering, we do our damn best to keep out our more ill-bred newcomers because they remind us of our own mean origins in the draper's shop in Inverness, or the shtetl, or the bog.
Mordecai Richler (Solomon Gursky Was Here)