Emigration to New ZealandBbc clip 4360

New Zealand

Tom Devine said,“Emigration was transformed by a transport revolution. Far away places were no longer places of exile but new opportunities to be explored.”

New Zealand

• Very similar reasons to Canada and Australia.• Occasionally some that could not make a life

in Australia, tried to make one in NZ.

NZ

• Like the others, agents pulled people to NZ. • Agents willing to sign people up for discounted

fares.

Religion

• One of the biggest reasons for moving to NZ. • Dundin (The Gaelic for Edinburgh) was

established in 1848.

BBC Clip 4360

NZ

• Scots persuaded because of the promise of society like Scotland’s.

Peter N. Williams, Ph.D says:“Scots made up a quarter of NZ’s population…”

Impact of Scots in New Zealand

• Economically Scots were involved in creation of the country’s banking system, land ownership, religion of the colony and education too.

• Scots created areas like Otago.• Some Scots put off the land the Maori people

had lived in. • Occasional direct conflict between the Maris

and the Pakeha (Europeans.)

Treaty of Waitangi

• To help solve the conflict between Pakeha and the Maoris on Feb 6th 1840.

• Taranaki Wars in 1860-1880 proved that it didn’t. (Wars over land.)

Politics

• Scots more important in the development of NZ.

• PMs like Sir Robert Stout. (page 42)• John MacKenzie, minister of land. (Someone

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Other

• Many Doctors travelled from Scotland, and gained free passage on the ships if they agreed to be the ships doctor.

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