08 June 2023, Starts: 19:00, Ends: 21:00

Deconstructing Emigration: The Migrant's Story

Online talkb by Dr John Reid and Dr Karly Kehoe from St Mary's Univeristy, Halifax, Nova Scotia. 

Organised by Ullapol Museum. Free. Further information and tickets from Ullapool Museum website

Part of Ullapool Museum's commemoration of the 250th Anniversary of the Sailing of The Hector from Lochbroom to Nova Scotia, Ullapool Museum, looking to deconstruct the stories surrounding the mass migration of people to Canada. 

In their first talk they welcome Dr John Reid and Dr Karly Kehoe from St. Mary’s University in Halifax Nova Scotia to discuss the story of the emigrants from Scotland to Nova Scotia. We will discuss the reasons for mass emigration from Scotland in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, how the journey effected those who crossed the Atlantic and what did they find at the other end.