Scottish Settlement

noun, a tract of land on Wolfe Island established as a place for Glengarry highlanders to settle; also ‘Scotch Settlement’ and ‘Scots Settlement’ as below; see location on map

Scottish Settlement
“Religion played a big part of it, which, you know. This was the Scottish Settlement.”

Scotch Settlement
“She told me that Turell MacDonald was her great grandfather and that he was allotted the Scotch Settlement as a mustering out pay from the army.”

“His relative was Ronald MacDonald … and through him he got this grant of land on the northeast corner of the Island called the Scotch Settlement.”

“Yeah, that’s right. The Scotch Settlement was right down here. Right.”
“Yeah. The MacDonald, the Scotch Settlement.”

Scots Settlement
“We’re related if you go back far enough. Yeah, from the Scots Settlement.”

“It was interesting, like, there were so many Scottish on the Scots Settlement area, and they kept using the same names.”

“Quite a few different families came at that time and established what’s called the Scots Settlement. You can still see it on some older maps, a Scots Settlement. The Scots Settlement wasn’t like a village or anything like that. It was a whole area. This whole area here is where they settled.”

“If you look in the old maps again, you’ll see it’s called the Scots Settlement. People come here now and they say, ‘Where’s this Scots Settlement?’ They figured it’s a town there or some kind of a border. But I mean it’s just a line.”