%0 Journal Article
%T The Invisible Island: Immigration, Environment, and a New Europe on Big Island, Nova Scotia
%A Duke
%A David Freeland
%A Stanton
%A Aileen Leigh
%J -
%D 2019
%R https://doi.org/10.1353/aca.2019.0003
%X This article examines Scottish immigration to Nova Scotia from an environmental perspective. Big Island, which has been long absent from the historical record, is a microcosm of Alfred Crosby¡¯s New Europe thesis. The environmental historian¡¯s seminal theory has never been applied to the Scottish immigration story, in Canada or abroad, and applying it to Big Island reveals a strong cultural and geographic enclave that serves as a testament to the enduring power of place
%U https://www.erudit.org/en/journals/acadiensis/2019-v48-n1-acadiensis04770/1062178ar/