Talk:Scotland/@comment-24.36.116.129-20120414041742

ಠ _ಠ I'm gunna slap someone...is this article suggesting that Scotland populated Canada BEFORE France? Um, no. The relationship with Canada is all wrong. Nova Scotia used to be part of the French territory "Acadia" - which was more or less made up of all the maritime provinces. England ended up taking a fair chunk of Newfoundland in the early 17th century pushing France out of the area. They eventually took the entire maritimes in the early 18th century. Canada itself as a whole was taken under the Seven Years War (fully signed over under the Treaty of Paris, 1763). The major Scottish migration didn't even begin to the area until around the 1770s.

((to be fair, Scotland did TRY to make a settlement in 1622 but it a VERY small one, hardly worth mentioning, really, and some of the Highlanders came in the early 18th century to avoid the Jacobite uprising))

Scotland DOES have a good relationship with Canada (they're both very open-minded, diverse and rather laid back) but Scotland is probably closest to Quebec of all Provinces. XD Although funny enough, Quebec has the lowest number of ethnic Scots. Most ethnic Scots reside in Ontario.