The Chestico Museum will host a talk by Dr. Karly Kehoe, Professor of History & Canada Research Chair in Atlantic Canada Communities at St. Mary’s University, on Tuesday, June 24 at 7 PM. Scotland Displaced: Resilience in Cape Breton’s Backland Communities will explore the links between clearance, displacement, and resilience. It will consider how displaced people from three of Scotland’s… (more…)
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Dr. Dòmhnall Uilleam Stiúbhart Talk
The Chestico Museum & Historical Society in partnership with Dr. Karly Kehoe, Canada Research Chair in Atlantic Canada Communities at Saint Mary’s University, present a talk by Dr. Dòmhnall Uilleam Stiúbhart on Friday June 7, 2024 at 7 PM at the Chestico Museum. Dr. Stiúbhart is Senior Lecturer at Sabhal Mòr Ostaig | The Gaelic College on the Isle of… (more…)
Historic Environment Scotland Speakers
The Chestico Museum & Historical Society in partnership with Dr. Karly Kehoe, Canada Research Chair in Atlantic Canada Communities at Saint Mary’s University, present: Two Guest Lecturers from Historic Environment Scotland Eve Boyle, Senior Heritage Engagement Officer, Historic Environment Scotland: Rural Settlement in Highland Scotland in the 18th and 19th Centuries: Improvement and Clearance Andrew Nicoll, Deputy Head of Archives,… (more…)
Eigg Homecoming
For those of you with ancestors from the Isle of Eigg – one of the “Small Isles” off the west coast of Scotland – there is a special Homecoming from September 14th to 19th in conjunction with Scotland’s Homecoming 2009. Many of Inverness County’s residents have roots on the Isle of Eigg – MacDonalds, Macleans, MacIsaacs, all Clanranald people –… (more…)
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