#Forced Migration

[dosesofcommonsense]

[scotianostra]

On 15th September 1773 the emigrant ship “Hector” arrives in Pictou Harbour on Nova Scotia carrying 189 Highlanders, most loaded two months earlier in Ullapool.

Although they were not the first Scots to arrive in North America they were the vanguard of a massive wave of Scottish immigrants to arrive in what is now Canada. In the century following the landing of the Hector more than 120 ships brought nearly 20 000 people from Scotland to the port of Pictou. By 1879 more than ninety-three percent of the region’s rural property owners had Scottish names.

Ironically, very few of the Hector people stayed on the Pictou Plantation. They had been cruelly deceived by the shipping company that brought them out to Nova Scotia. The land was not ready for settlement as promised and supplies for the coming winter were meagre. Most of them moved on to settled parts of the province leaving an intrepid handful of their countrymen to fend for themselves in an uncultivated wilderness.

The Hector was owned by two men, Pagan and Witherspoon, who bought three shares of land in Pictou, and they engaged a Mr John Ross as their agent, to accompany the vessel to Scotland, to bring out as many colonists as they could induce, by misrepresentation and falsehoods, to leave their homes.

As they were leaving, a piper came on board who had not paid his passage; the captain ordered him ashore, but the strains of the national instrument affected those on board so much that they pleaded to have him allowed to accompany them, and offered to share their own rations with him in exchange for his music during the passage. Their request was granted, scrolling through various passenger lists I have found out the Piper was more than likely a man called William McKay.

All those travelling that were aged over 8 were required to pay full fare for the passage, those between 2 and 8 were charged half fare under 2’s were free. It was bad enough that they were conned with the promise of land in Canada but conditions on board the Hector were said to be horrendous, the ship was barely sea worthy and has been described as a crumbling wreck. I can’t find any mention of how may survived the 11 week journey or how the passengers were related to one another it was a nine week journey over the Atlantic, Smallpox and dysentery took their toll on the infants and children on board. In all, eighteen died at sea, I think by that they mean 18 children, poor things. By the time the rotting hulk landed, people were picking at the planks to find worms to eat.

On arrival about all that they seen was the dense forest grew down to the water’s edge as far as the eye could see.

The unfamiliar customs and appearance of the natives inhabiting the area so terrified the settlers that they remained on board for two days despite their desire to walk again on dry land. Finally, on September 17, 1773, dressed in full Scottish regalia, with all pageantry of their kilts and the pipes, they went ashore

The “Hector” pioneers faced extreme difficulties during their first year in the New World, but with the development of a lively timber trade with Scotland and the finalising of land grants, conditions improved and the development of what is now Pictou County was under way. The land was rich, the rivers and oceans plentifully stocked with fish, and the timber of high quality.

Pics are of a stamp issued in 1973 to mark 200 years since the crossing and the Hector replica at Pictou. The Hector Heritage Quay is one of Nova Scotia's major cultural tourist attractions. The Hector is a full-sized replica of the original ship. A Highland Homecoming, a celebration of the strong Scottish spirit, takes place on-site every September. and kicking off today.

You can find all the details on their FB page here https://www.facebook.com/shiphector/

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Forced Migration: ESA-UC

ESA-UC forced migration (or managed as they to call it) is not a migration, it is a new claim being dressed as migration with the same parameters of a new claim, i.e. paid in arrears with a period of weeks with no income.

The ‘reasonable adjustment’ is advance payment, the same as able bodied claimants making a new claim are offered with the snag of leaving the claimant in debt with forced deductions and reduced income for up to 24months. 

Out of the five weeks of no income the government are paying ESA two weeks ‘overpayment’, still leaving very vulnerable people with zero income for three out of the five weeks.

Disabled people are at a material disadvantage burdened with the disability price tag that an able bodied person doesn’t have to contend with.

This is a one size that has been tinkered with to give the appearance of reasonable adjustments. 

Additionally, an able bodied person has the capacity for work and plug the gap of lost income and remain on some form of UC, where as people being migrated from ESA-IR Support Group have no capacity to work it’s why they’re in the support group.

Disabled have no independent means and at a material disadvantage on disability grounds. 

The court already stipulated there should be no loss of income to the claimant, clearly there is. Even with transitional payment protection there is a semi-permanent cap that prevents any inflation increase in award income that every other benefit will receive. 

This is because the UC equivalent award doesn’t have the ESA component of severe disability premium, this no longer exists and at a loss of approx. £5000 a year. Until UC catch’s up with ESA, people migrating with transitional payment protection will have a fixed income for years despite the yearly increase in cost of living.

No matter which way you look at this disabled people are the butt of punishing policy for being disabled and unable to work. 

It is discriminatory and I believe illegal before you get to there being no risk or impact assessment. 

Labour were in chorus with the UN report over the disproportionate poverty inflicted on the disabled by government policy, when they were in opposition. Yet now they’re carrying on the Tory torch of punitive policy aimed at doing the most harm to the most vulnerable in contravention of the very UN report they said they agreed with. 

While in opposition Labour promised to scrap UC and are now back peddling on that. Instead they are looking to treat disabled people as having more capacity to work than they do by forcing them into the same benefit system as able bodied. It is discriminatory every which way and places disabled people at risk of injury or death.

It is concisions cruelty to save a few quid instead of making tax evaders pay their share.

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

"Scenes as Residents of St. Vincent and Sydenham Leave New Tank Range," Owen Sound Sun-Times. October 1, 1942. Page 6. --- The northern tips of St. Vincent and Syndenham Townships are today a new Canadian Army tank range. Rolling farm-lands which for years have been devoted to feeding Canadians are now serving another purpose, being used to train men to guard Canadians against the loss of those things they prize more than life itself. All residents of the area have now departed for their new homes. Here are scenes as the evacuation was in full swing. Upper left, Carol Jane McKee, aged 7, and Yvonne McKee, aged 9, 4 sit the steps of the Balaclava school, their books in their arms, as they any well to this school house. They are the daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Russell McKee and will reside near Allenford. Top centre is a view of a Sydenham group, helping Mrs. Margaret Eagles pack her belongings into a truck for removal to her new home at Owen Sound. From left to right are Jimmie Lemon, Carewood White, Miss Katherine Lemon, M. Donald Lemon, Mrs. Margaret Eagles and Clifford King. Upper right is scene familiar in the district in the past few weeks, a truck-load of hay. Standing on the hood of the truck is Rae Bumstead, while at the left is the owner of the hay, John Cathrae, who is moving to a farm in Keppel Township. Lower left is sbown one of the warning signs erected along the boundaries of the area. The man on the right Josh Gammon of Hawkestone, Ont., who was directing William Briggs and Geedon Hedekinson of Meaford in the work of erecting barriers across the roadway. Lower right is a picture of S.S. No. 12, St. Vincent, closed because it stands four rods inside the tank area, although eleven of the school's fourteen pupils reside outside the area and will now have to go as far as five miles to St. John's school. Standing is the school door in the picture is George Moire, a member of the school board of S.S. No. 12 - Sun-Tunes Staff Photo

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[dosesofcommonsense]

Look at all the women and children and destitute … wait … that all looks like men in decent shape and well funded and organized. If they’re so well off, why are they headed here?

When our grandkids realize what we have done to them they will spit on our graves.

[gremmlingamer]

[fireflysugarpie]

I fully believe that if Shen Yuan transmigrated before Luo Binghe existed, he would have shifted all of his weird obsessive fangirl/antifan energy onto Airplane bro

[stardotnet]

the universe is just one atom/cell vs. we are the whole universe

[boymanmaletheshequel]

White supremacists, besides for the obvious reasons, are so fucking stupid for considering illegal immigrants to be “invading this country” because they are fleeing from horrific issues that they are simply trying to flee from to build a better life. That would be like if your neighbors’s house caught fire, and they ran across your property line to come ask for your help, and you shot them in the fucking face. Like????? Are you really THAT monstrous??? I hate it here.