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.

本文探讨了英国的反天主教与英属北美定居者殖民主义加速之间的联系，并通过考虑从苏格兰西北高地和岛屿的天主教区出发的两组移民来做到这一点。爱德华王子岛的 Glenaladale 定居点（1772 年）和上加拿大的 Glengarry 定居点（1803 年）相隔 30 多年，为反天主教如何激活高地天主教殖民机构提供了具有启发性的见解。不仅大量高地天主教徒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的建立。Glengarry 和 Glenaladale 的殖民地居住着定居者，他们有双重动机在帝国定居。他们当然可以在经济上繁荣，他们也可以获得不受明显干扰地实践信仰的自由。对于他们祖先定居土地的土著人民来说，这种定居者殖民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天主教徒在其他地方是热情的殖民者这一事实，而且这两个过程往往是相关的。