Dreamer, radical and gambler : Some unlikely Scottish emigrants?

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: This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
Subject: Scottish immigrants; Economic networks; Cultural networks; Australia; Essays
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