UBC Chung Collection of Scottish photographs and textual artifacts

The Scottish have been immigrating to Canada for over two centuries in both steady and substantial numbers. The first half of the 20th century saw nearly half of a million Scots arrive on Canada's East Coast. Many of them settling in and around Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island. Eventually, as with many others, they began spreading westward into the Prairies, where there was ample land and opportunity to make a new life.

In the 1920's two large vessels carrying 600 Hebrideans embarked on two Canadian Pacific liners at Lochboisdale and Stornoway, many of them taking advantage of the year-old Empire Settlement Act to secure subsidized passages, traveled to Canada. 

The UBC Chung Collection of Scottish photographs and textual artifacts is now available on the Multicultural Canada web site for all to enjoy.