Flight of the Highlanders by Ken McGoogan

Author:Ken McGoogan
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins Canada
Published: 2019-08-11T16:00:00+00:00

ALMOST 170 YEARS later, while exploring South Uist in 2017, I thought about that young woman’s first capture. Roughly ten kilometres north of the ferry dock in Lochboisdale, we came upon the ruins of a tacksman’s house in Upper Bornish Clearance Village. Earlier that day, after visiting the birthplace of Flora MacDonald, we had gone to the Kildonan Museum and picked up an archaeological guide pointing the way to notable ruins. It spoke rather grandly of a “Kildonan Trail” but we found ourselves greeting cattle as we beat across pathless, marshy ground to the ruins of this neglected village. In the eighteenth century, the guidebook said, Upper Bornish comprised half a dozen households, the people living mostly “in long houses shared at times with livestock.”

Men, women and children who lived here in Upper Bornish Clearance Village were tricked into attending a meeting, dragged onto a ship and then sent to Lower Canada.

Photo by the author

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