As we commemorate the 250th Anniversary of the Sailing of The Hector from Lochbroom to Nova Scotia, Ullapool Museum looks to deconstruct the stories surrounding the mass migration of people to Canada by inviting academics, heritage consultants and first nations representative to discuss the wider impacts and effects of emigration to the New World.

In our first talk we welcome Dr John Reid and Dr Karly Kehoe from St. Mary’s University in Halifax Nova Scotia to discuss the story of the emigrants from Scotland to Nova Scotia. We will discuss the reasons for mass emigration from Scotland in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, how the journey effected those who crossed the Atlantic and what did they find at the other end.