This article explores the links between anti-Catholicism in the United Kingdom and the acceleration of settler colonialism in British North America, and it does so by considering two group migrations from Catholic districts in the North West Highlands and Islands of Scotland. Occurring over 30 years apart, the Glenaladale settlement (1772) in Prince Edward Island and the Glengarry settlement (1803) in Upper Canada offer instructive insight into how anti-Catholicism activated Highland Catholic colonial agency. Not only did significant numbers of Highland Catholics choose to quit Scotland forever, but their settlement in places like Prince Edward Island and Upper Canada accelerated the process of settler colonialism and the establishment of the Catholic Church. The colonies at Glengarry and Glenaladale were peopled by settlers who were doubly motivated to settle in the empire. They stood to prosper economically—certainly—and they also stood to gain the freedom to practice their faith free of obvious interference. To the Indigenous peoples whose ancestral lands they settled, the consequences were not softened by this pretext for settler colonization, and too often the history of anti-Catholic discrimination in the four nations elide the fact that Catholics were enthusiastic colonizers elsewhere, and that the two processes were often related.

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“自己的殖民地”：英属北美苏格兰高地定居者的殖民主义，1770-1804 年


本文探讨了英国的反天主教主义与英属北美定居者殖民主义加速之间的联系，并通过考虑来自西北高地和苏格兰群岛天主教区的两组移民来实现这一点。爱德华王子岛的格伦纳代尔定居点（1772 年）和加拿大北部的格伦加里定居点（1803 年）相隔 30 多年，为了解反天主教如何激活高地天主教殖民机构提供了有益的见解。大量高地天主教徒不仅选择永远离开苏格兰，而且他们在爱德华王子岛和上加拿大等地的定居加速了定居者殖民主义和天主教会建立的进程。格伦加里和格伦纳代尔的殖民地居住着想要在帝国定居的双重动机的定居者。他们一定会在经济上繁荣——这是肯定的——而且他们也一定会获得实践信仰的自由，不受明显的干扰。对于他们在祖传土地上定居的原住民来说，这种定居者殖民化的借口并没有减轻其后果，而且这四个国家反天主教歧视的历史往往掩盖了这样一个事实：天主教徒在其他地方是热心的殖民者，而这两个国家的殖民者也是如此。过程通常是相关的。