Source C: from Owen Dudley Edwards, North America, The Scottish Contribution (1984). To think of Canada as Greater Scotland makes little sense in terms of the population—Scots accounted for less than 1/6 of the population in 1871—but it would be hard to find another country where the imprint of the immigrant Scot has been so firmly established on an entire country. Scots dominated Canadian politics. Sir John MacDonald, Glasgow born, was the father of the Canadian Confederation and the first Prime Minister. Scots were also important in the development of journalism with the influential Toronto Globe newspaper founded and ruled by Scotsman George Brown. The Scottish hold on the Canadian imagination is reinforced by the high number of figures of Scottish origin who became legends of the Great Western expansion. The names of Sir Alexander Mackenzie and Simon Fraser are remembered in the Mackenzie and Fraser rivers. Finally, the symbolic achievement in the conquest of the west was achieved when Donald Smith, one of the founders of the Canadian Pacific Railway, completed the railway in a ceremony at Eagle Pass in 1875. The spot was thereafter known as Craigellachie, in memory of where Smith was born in Scotland. How fully does Source C illustrate the impact of Scots emigrants upon the Empire? (9) Source
Source C: from Owen Dudley Edwards, North America, The Scottish Contribution (1984). To think of Canada as Greater Scotland makes little sense in terms of the population—Scots accounted for less than 1/6 of the population in 1871—but it would be hard to find another country where the imprint of the immigrant Scot has been so firmly established on an entire country. Scots dominated Canadian politics. Sir John MacDonald, Glasgow born, was the father of the Canadian Confederation and the first Prime Minister. Scots were also important in the development of journalism with the influential Toronto Globe newspaper founded and ruled by Scotsman George Brown. The Scottish hold on the Canadian imagination is reinforced by the high number of figures of Scottish origin who became legends of the Great Western expansion. The names of Sir Alexander Mackenzie and Simon Fraser are remembered in the Mackenzie and Fraser rivers. Finally, the symbolic achievement in the conquest of the west was achieved when Donald Smith, one of the founders of the Canadian Pacific Railway, completed the railway in a ceremony at Eagle Pass in 1875. The spot was thereafter known as Craigellachie, in memory of where Smith was born in Scotland. How fully does Source C illustrate the impact of Scots emigrants upon the Empire? (9) Source
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