A kingdom of the mind : how the Scots helped make Canada ; [... papers presented at a Cilloquium held in Montreal at the McCord Museum of Canadian History on 9-11 May 2002

Many Canadians with a Scottish background still feel the pull of their Gaelic origins. During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries Scots dominated Montreal and, by extension, the rest of the country. Their habits and attitudes influenced business, education, science and medicine, the military, and even the way Canadians imagined themselves. Contents Illustrations Tables Introduction PART ONE: SHAPING 1 The Scots’ Imaging of Canada 2 Exiles or Entrepreneurs? Snapshots of the Scots in Canada 3 A Man’s a Man because of That: The Scots in the Canadian Military Experience 4 The Curious Tale of the Scots and the Fur Trade: An Historiographical Account 5 Sojourners in the Snow? The Scots in Business in Nineteenth-Century Canada PART TWO: CREATING 6 Thistles in the North: The Direct and Indirect Scottish Influence on James Bay Cree Material Culture 7 Aspects of Scottish-Canadian Material Culture: Heart Brooches and Scottish Pottery 8 A Scottish-born Silversmith in Montreal: Robert Cruikshank 9 “Bonnie Lassies” and a “Coat of Many Colours”: Highland-Inspired Clothing at the McCord Museum PART THREE: BUILDING 10 Sir William Logan and Sir J.W. Dawson: Victorian Geology as Scottish Science in a New World Environment 11 The Seed, the Soil, and the Climate: The Scottish Influence on Canadian Medical Education and Practice, 1775–1875 12 A Scout of the Past: Ramsay Traquair and the Legacy of the National Art Survey of Scotland in Quebec 13 Scottish Identity and British Loyalty in Early-Nineteenth-Century Montreal 14 “In the Hallowed Name of Religion”: Scots and Public Education in Nineteenth-Century Montreal 15 Butcher, Baker, Cabinetmaker? A View of Montreal’s Scottish Immigrant Community from 1835 to 1865 Acknowledgments Contributors Index A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W In A Kingdom Of The Mind Ethnographers, Material Culture Specialists, And Contributors From A Wide Variety Of Disciplines Explore The Impact Of The Scots On Canadian Life, Showing How The Scots' Image Of Their Homeland And Themselves Played An Important Role In The Emerging Definition Of What It Meant To Be Canadian. Many Canadians with a Scottish background feel the pull of their Gaelic origins. This book explores the impact of the Scots on Canadian life, showing how the Scots' image of their homeland and themselves played an important role in the emerging definition of what it meant to be Canadian.