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Article: Scotland's child.(Great Scots! How the Scots Created Canada)(Book Review)
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- The Beaver: Exploring Canada's History
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- December 1, 2004
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Great Scots! How the Scots Created Canada By Matthew Shaw Heartland Associates, Winnipeg, 2003 224 pp., illus., $34.95 hardcover, $26.95 paper
It often struck me when I worked in the Canadian shipbuilding industry about twenty years ago that an extraordinarily large number of Scots held senior management positions at shipyards across Canada. After reading Matthew Shaw's Great Scots!, I now know why.
Shaw, a British Columbia teacher and writer, chronicles the tremendous contribution Scots have made in shaping Canada. From the days of the fur trade to the late twentieth century, Scots have played a prominent role in Canadian industry, politics, literature, ...