Cape Breton is well known for its traditional fiddle music, which was brought to North America by Scottish immigrants during the Highland Clearances.

The major result of these changes were the Highland Clearances, by which much of the population of the Highlands suffered forced displacement as lands were enclosed, principally so that they could be used for sheep farming.

He also spoke in support of the Slum Clearances Bill, which provided entitlement for full compensation for those who purchased a house after August 1939 and still occupied it in December 1955 if this property would be compulsorarily purchased by the government if it was deemed unfit for human habitation.

After the Norse occupation, South Uist was held by the MacDonalds of Clanranald until 1838 when Colonel Gordon of Cluny bought the island and initiated Highland Clearances to make way for sheep farming, supplanting the crofters with farmers from the Borders, who brought Blackface sheep flocks.

Pictou was a receiving point for many Scottish immigrants moving to a new home in northern Nova Scotia and Cape Breton Island following the Highland Clearances of the late 18th and early 19th centuries.

Clearances at the reliability status, confidential, and secret levels are valid for 10 years, whereas top secret is valid for 5 years.

Increasing demand in Britain for cattle and sheep led to higher rents, with surplus clan population leaving in the mass migration later known as the Highland Clearances, finally undermining the traditional clan system.

In general the Clearances on Arran seem to have been less brutal than in many other places in Scotland, but when the crofters in Glen Sannox had to make way for large scale sheep farming, many of them saw no other option than to emigrate, and they departed from Lamlash.

Sutherland is perhaps best known for its saddest memory: The Highland Clearances: The forceful eviction of people from their homes in the 18th century by the landowners to make way for large sheep farms.

The 1st Duke and Duchess of Sutherland remain controversial for their role in the Highland Clearances, when thousands of crofters were removed forcibly from their land so as to allow sheep rearing on a much larger scale than before.

Pictou was a receiving point for many Scottish immigrants moving to a new home in northern Nova Scotia and Cape Breton Island following the Highland Clearances of the late 18th and early 19th centuries.

These evictions were part of a wider event that came to be known as the Highland Clearances, during which people whose culture had existed there for millennia were forced to emigrate.

The British Agricultural Revolution led directly to what is increasingly becoming known as the Lowland Clearances, when hundreds of thousands of cottars and tenant farmers from central and southern Scotland were, in many cases, forcibly moved from the farms and small holdings they had occupied for hundreds of years.

He was MP for Lanark Burghs from 1761 to 1768 and in 1762, he initiated land tenure reform which would later evolve into the Highland Clearances.

( Using the callsign " Shanwick Oceanic ", the Prestwick Centre has 2 dedicated VHF frequencies specifically for the issue of Oceanic Clearances to westbound flights about to enter the Shanwick OCA, and also provides an ACARS based system called ORCA-Oceanic Route Clearance Authorisation-for suitably equipped aircraft to obtain such clearances without the need for voice communications ).

Glengarry County ( Scottish Gaelic: Siorrachd Gleanna Garadh ), an area covering, is a county in the Canadian province of Ontario, and is historically known for its settlement of Highland Scots due to the Highland Clearances.

Besides being founded as a settlement for Scottish United Empire Loyalists the settlement was also setup as a destination for Scottish emigrants due to the recent Highland Clearances.

The establishment of the colony of New Brunswick for United Empire Loyalists refugees following the American Revolutionary War saw modest influx of several families to the area but the most significant impact came from Scottish settlers following the Highland Clearances.

The Visit of King George IV to Scotland in 1822 and the subsequent rise in tartanry did much to reinvigorate a sense of a specifically Scottish national identity, which had been split between the Episcopalian and Roman Catholic-dominated Highlands and the Presbyterian-dominated Lowlands since the Glorious Revolution in 1688, and continued during the 18th century through the Jacobite risings, the Act of Proscription and subsequent process of Highland Clearances by landlords.

* The Scottish Agricultural Revolution ( 18th – 19th centuries ), the British Agricultural Revolution in Scotland specifically, which led to the Lowland Clearances

New research ( 2003 – 04 ) about the destruction of Lowland culture has led historians such as Tom Devine to dub this period of time the Lowland Clearances.

* The Scottish Agricultural Revolution ( 18th – 19th centuries ), the British Agricultural Revolution in Scotland specifically, which led to the Lowland Clearances

Most notoriously, the Highland Clearances in northern Scotland led to significant depopulation.

British settlement of the Maritimes, as the colonies of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island came to be known, accelerated throughout the late 18th century and into the 19th century with significant immigration to the region as a result of Scottish migrants displaced by the Highland Clearances and Irish escaping the Great Irish Famine ( 1845-1849 ).

The Dukes of Atholl, as massive landowners, were initiators of and primary participants in, the Highland Clearances, the eviction and forced removal of families from their homes, to be replaced by sheep.

The Clearances were considered by the landlords as necessary " improvements ".

In the mid 19th century the Highland Potato Famine and the Highland Clearances reduced the population by two thirds and the island economy collapsed.

This long period, when Gaelic became the dominant language, was ended by the brutality of the 19th century Clearances.

From the late 18th century to the early 19th century, the area was almost entirely settled by Scottish emigrants from all over the Scottish Highlands due to the Highland Clearances.

These were landowners ' clubs with aims including " Improvements " ( the Highland Clearances ) and promoting " the general use of the ancient Highland dress " by obliging members to wear this when attending meetings.

Clearances were increased in 1997 and 2007, the former by lowering the track, the latter by grinding 15 inches off the roof, allowing trailer on flat car ( TOFC ) and tri-level automobile carriers to pass.

Cape Breton Island's fiddle music was brought to North America by Scottish immigrants during the Highland Clearances.

Encouraged by David Smith, a fellow Scot in Montreal, Quebec, Morgan believed a better life existed in Canada than in a Scotland faced with " the Clearances ", and he planned to put his training to good use and open a business there.

This loch is named by Clan MacDonnell of Glengarry, after their previous home loch, Loch Garry in Scotland, after their emigration to the county from Scotland in result of the Highland Clearances.

Clan Grant was one of the few clans not to be affected by the Highland Clearances.

During the 19th century the clan was badly affected by the Highland Clearances in which many of the clansfolk were forced to emigrate from Scotland.

Under his authority timber was felled for sale, the cleared land was leased to sheep farmers and many of his clansmen were forced from the land by increasing rents and evictions, with the great majority forced to go to British North America ( His clan primarily in Glengarry County, Ontario ) in part of what was later known as the Highland Clearances.

However, these exclusively Gaelic-speaking hamlets were largely eviscerated by The Highland Clearances during the 18th and 19th centuries.

Pictou County and much of northeastern Nova Scotia came to be settled by Scottish immigrants fleeing the Highland Clearances during the late 18th century and into the early 19th century.

Many Scotsmen were displaced by the Highland Clearances and the opportunity to own and farm their own land appealed to many.

During the first half of the 19th century, Cape Breton Island experienced an influx of Highland Scots numbering approximately 50, 000 as a result of the Highland Clearances.

The population peaked at 158 in 1851, following eviction of crofters from Skye in the Highland Clearances.

The Highland Clearances of the 19th century had a devastating effect on many communities and it is only in recent years that population levels have ceased to decline.

The enclosures that depopulated rural England in the British Agricultural Revolution started during the Middle Ages, and similar developments in Scotland have lately been called the Lowland Clearances.

The Highland Clearances were forced displacements of the populations of the Scottish Highlands and Islands in the 18th century.

Clearances may have been to accommodate sheep or game estates, or enclosure, or may have resulted from depopulation, such as after the Black Death or following a move of the inhabitants to more prosperous districts.

In 1832, the whole of the families amounting to 500 persons, were obliged Highland Clearances | the clearances to leave the island, but were furnished with the means of reaching New Brunswick.

In the eighteenth century the total population of the combined Uists rose dramatically, before the population crash of the Highland Clearances.

The Highland Clearances of the 19th century had a devastating effect on many communities and it is only in recent years that population levels have ceased to decline.

At the time, social upheaval in Scotland due to the introduction of sheep farming and the ensuing Highland and Lowland Clearances had left a number of Scots destitute.

While crops such as oats, barley, potatoes and flax flourished, Cadder's population fared less well ; a decrease of around 600 from the mid-1760s was attributed to new agricultural methods which combined smaller farms or Run rigs and swept away independent tenants, known as the Lowland Clearances.

The area was depressed as a result of the Highland Clearances, which had deprived many of their homes and jobs, and faced with laws which sought to eradicate their culture, including the right to wear tartan, to play bagpipes, and to speak Gaelic, many were emigrating to Canada or to the Scottish lowlands.

The total population of Lowlanders diminished drastically in some parts of the south as a direct result of the Agricultural Revolution which resulted in the Lowland Clearances, and the subsequent emigration of large numbers of Lowland Scots.

The Clearances ( Scottish Gaelic: Fuadach nan Gàidheal, the expulsion of the Gael ) is a period in the 18th and 19th centuries where large forced displacements of the rural population in Scotland took place as part of a process of agricultural change.