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EMPIRE MIGRATION
- ATTRACTIONS TO THE LOWLANDS
- Young rural work seekers were attracted
to big cities social and cultural
attractions: Royal Empire Theatre and
ABC Cinema
- Better wages (50% higher in cities) and
shorter hours (10 a day and a half day on
saturday)
- PUSH FACTORS
- Poor housing, Very little (overcrowded) land,
and very low wages.
- Blackhouses - no running water, inside toilets and sharing w/ animals
- Blackhouses - no running water, inside toilets and sharing w/ animals
- Fishing industry decline
after 1850's due to foreign
competition
- Highland Clearances - mid 1850s
- Crofter's Holding Act 1886 - prevented further clearances
- Crofter's Holding Act 1886 - prevented further clearances
- Population decline
1891-1931: 26%
compared to LowLands
16%
- Poor housing, Very little (overcrowded) land,
and very low wages.
- PULL FACTORS
- higher standard of living.
- However:
- Some Migration only temporary
due to being attached to the land
or sending money back home
- Allowed peasants to buy, gain and
pay rent on crofts
- Allowed peasants to buy, gain and
pay rent on crofts
- Some migration Permanent due to
poverty rife and hard life in
highlands.
- Cultivation of the Potato sustained
population until 1840s
- Some Migration only temporary
due to being attached to the land
or sending money back home
- Young rural work seekers were attracted
to big cities social and cultural
attractions: Royal Empire Theatre and
ABC Cinema
- Migration of Scots Abroad
- Australia
- Sheep Farming introduced by a Scot
- Wool Became biggest export
- Refrigerated Meat
- Wool Became biggest export
- Conflict between
Aboriginals
- 1788 over 600k - by 1888 only 80k
- Settlers ruthlessly evicted them from
their land - pushed onto settlements.
- Westernized: Taught English,
Christian Morals and Values and
Names.
- 1788 over 600k - by 1888 only 80k
- Potato Blight sufferers
channeled by
Governement to Australia
- Victoria Gold Rush:
- Attracted Many Aussi's, leaving
Jobs available to Scots:
Labourers, Carpenters, Builders,
Joiners, Ministers.
- Population increase by 3x in 10 years
- During 1850s 80% of Scots
in Australia went to
Victoria.
- Attracted Many Aussi's, leaving
Jobs available to Scots:
Labourers, Carpenters, Builders,
Joiners, Ministers.
- Mining in New S Wales in 1920s/30s
attracted thousands of workers from
Lanarkshire, Ayr + Fife.
- By 1850 almost 25% of Population had
come from Scotland - settled mostly
around Peth, Victoria and New S
Wales.
- IMPORTANT FIGURES
- Alexander McCrae from
Highlands designed
Speedos.
- Edward Thompson = Clnl Secretary during Gold Rush.
- Andrew Fisher (Ayrshire) = 1st Labour Party pm in 1908
- James Munro = 15th Premier of Victoria.
Established Federal Bank and Building
Scoiety in 1882.
- Helen Spemce = 1st female political
Candidate/journalist. - On the 5$ Bill, 'Oz's
Greatest Woman' & Suffrage Campaigner.
- Alexander McCrae from
Highlands designed
Speedos.
- 1920s -
thousands of
Scots
Stonemasons
helped build the
Sydney Harbour
Bridge.
- 8.9% of
Australian's today
claim Scottish
Roots.
- Sheep Farming introduced by a Scot
- New
Zeland
- Scots ecouraged to
migrate by Government
Agents.
- Ecouraged aprox 4k scots to
go, 800 of which had NZ
relatives.
- Ecouraged aprox 4k scots to
go, 800 of which had NZ
relatives.
- 1920s Government offered free Passage to
people like domestic servants - aprox 90%
of NZ homes employed at least 1 servant.
- State of Otago advertised a
Scottish/Presbyterian
destination.
- Dunedin established in 1848 - Free Chuch
of Scotland had a large part in
development.
- Gold Discovery in
Aorere and
Coromandel
- 1852 - 1860 aprox 16.5% of
Incomers from Oz = Scottish
Born.
- 1890s frozen transport benefited the
South Island and Canterbury
- Scots ecouraged to
migrate by Government
Agents.
- Australia
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