Elliott, Bruce, 2004-2005: Emigrant Recruitment by the New Brunswick Land Company: The Pioneer Settlers of Stanley and Harvey.

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Officials asserted that part of the difficulty was that the Scots were Gaelic speakers, and that a man who had come on the same ship and been recruited as an interpreter proved himself a thorn in the Company's side and was dismissed from its service.   Nonetheless, 15 of 33 who signed a petition of complaint appended their signatures rather than their marks and so had some measure of literacy in English.   In the end Governor Harvey concluded that their recruitment had been injudicious at best, as most were fishermen unacquainted with the requirements for beginning agriculture in a wooded wilderness.⁽⁷⁰⁾  In the end the Company paid £6 per household to assist 38 or 39 of the families to move to Canada in 1838, which along with cancelling their debts cost the Company £4,000.⁽⁷¹⁾  By 1851 only four families remained.

Table 4   Highland Scots remaining in Stanley, 1838 & 1851

C.O. 188/60, f. 144, 1838:                         Stanley parish census, 1851:

	Age	Occupation	res.
Hossack, Donald, wf Margaret, 5 daus	50	his Widow	Scotch Settlement
Macdonald Austin, wf, 9 chn	72	Farmer	Green Hill Road
McDonald Widow [Margaret], 5+ ch (X)	79	Widow	Scotch Settlement
McDugall Duncan (X)
McGillivray Donald
McKinnon James, wf Anne, 4 ch	45	his Widow	Red Rock
McLennan James
McLennan John
McMillan Donald
MacPhee Donald
Nicholson Samuel (the NB Co.'s interpreter)
38 or 39 families assisted on to "Canada"
X denotes signature with a mark

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(70) C.O. 188/60, ff. 134-5, reel B-14.

 

(71) C.O. 188/61, ff. 143, 148.