1. Paying for Emigration Lesson starter;
Choose one of the reasons below for Scots emigrating and write a description of it in your own words.
Highland Clearances
Poverty
Missionary Work

2. Today we will…
Identify the help available for those Scots who wished to emigrate
Choose which type of help was best

3. I can…
Complete a detailed table on paying for emigration

4. Who helped pay for Emigration?
Landowners
British
Government
Charities
Colonial Governments

5. Task Copy the table below into your jotter.
Each group has a set of four information sheets.
Each person should take responsibility for one information sheet.
You should complete your section of the table below.
Your sheets will then be collected in and you should then take it in turns to share your information with the rest of your group. By the end of the task every person should have a fully completed table.
Group
How did they assist?
Key statistics/ Examples
Landowners
Charities
Colonial Governments
Emigration Societies
British Government

6. Key statistics/ Examples
Group
How did they assist?
Key statistics/ Examples
Landowners
Charities
Colonial Governments
Emigration Societies
British Government

7. Landowners
Often landowners in the Highlands would pay for their tenants to go abroad.
After the potato blight in the Highlands (1847 onwards), landowners could borrow from the government to do this.

8. The Highlands and Islands Emigration Society was set up to oversee the process of ‘resettlement’.
Under the scheme a landlord could secure a passage to Australia for a nominee at the cost of £1

9. Charities Sometimes better off people helped the poor emigrate:
William Quarrier Glasgow – sent orphan children to Canada
YMCA – sent boys to British colonies between the wars
British Women’s Emigration Association – helped suitable girls
William Quarrier

10. Colonial Governments
Governments in British colonies encouraged workers to move abroad.
They offered incentives like grants.

11. Emigration societies
A network of agencies grew throughout Scotland to help and encourage Scots to leave.
These agencies would offer deals to emigrants and organise their transport abroad.
Agents held meetings/lectures to persuade Scots to go.
Pamphlets/pictures were often distributed making the new country look attractive.
By 1892 Canada had employed two full time agents in Scotland who toured the country’s church halls, fetes and markets trying to lure people to the New World.

12. Emigrants become agents
Eventually some Scots who emigrated returned to Scotland temporarily to work as agents.
One such was James Adams, who moved to New Zealand in 1847.
He returned 10 years later to Scotland and persuaded 4000 Scots to move to New Zealand in a year.

14. The British government tried to ‘resettle’ it’s people throughout the empire to reduce unemployment in the UK. What do you think they would be employed as?