THE Scottish diaspora is one of the biggest in the world. An estimated 30-40 million people around the world can trace their ancestry back to Scotland. In America it is routine to bump into someone who goes “Hey man, my great-granddaddy was from Scotland too!” upon hearing your accent. Indeed, it is estimated that some 34 US Presidents have been of Scottish or Ulster-Scots descent including George Washington, Theodore Roosevelt, Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump.
Outside of the United States and the other nations of the United Kingdom, much of this diaspora resides within the “White Commonwealth”. That is, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. It is the third of these we draw our attention to today.
