- Title
- Dreamer, radical and gambler : Some unlikely Scottish emigrants?
- Creator
- McConville, Chris
- Date
- 2014
- Type
- Text; Book chapter
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/89590
- Identifier
- vital:9296
- Identifier
- http://library.federation.edu.au/record=b2188204
- Identifier
- ISBN:9781876478209
- Abstract
- On 30 November 1900, the Caledonian Society held Melbourne's last nineteeth century St Andrew's Day Dinner. It was an occasion for reflection on the past, rather than looking forward to the new century and those who spoke at the gathering routinely recited achievements of the century just closing, when Scottish emigrants had shaped locales across the British Empire. Scots, although acknowledged as poets, were lauded as 'shrewd, hard-headed, money-making' colonists who had take a leading role in the great advances of the nineteenth century.
- Publisher
- Ballarat Heritage Services Publishing
- Relation
- Scots under the Southern Cross p. 79-88
- Rights
- Copyright © BHS Publishing - Design, Layout and Index Copyright © rests with the individual authors
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Subject
- Scottish immigrants; Economic networks; Cultural networks; Australia; Essays
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