- DURATION 60 mins
Event Description
The story of the Highland Clearances, of the dispossession and removal of thousands of clansmen and women by an Anglicised aristocracy is the stuff of legend and mythology. Chris Forse will investigate the truth behind the mythology. More than that, he will track the lives of those removed who found their way to North America in the late 18th and 19th Centuries, who peopled a sub-continent, fought in the wars that created the United States, and helped build a new country, Canada. Canada may not have been made for Scotsmen, but it was made by them in the exploration of land towards the Pacific Ocean and in the building of the Canadian Pacific Railroad. And in time the descendants of the dispossessed of Scotland became, themselves, the great dispossessors of the native peoples of North America. It is a story full of drama and tragedy and of little understood contexts.
- Duration: 60 mins
- Online Zoom event: Join from your computer, phone or tablet (no replay available)
Meet the Host, Chris
Chris Forse is a retired teacher and administrator who spent 33 years in Hong Kong where he was also a sometime columnist and radio panel guest. He has travelled widely, enjoys travel photography and self-publishing and is a reputed speaker on travel, history and politics in the Midlands where he was for six years chairman of one of England’s largest U3As. He has produced several talks for Rest Less including his travel experiences in North America and China, and history talks on Hong Kong, the United States constitution, and the English Lake District.
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