The Highland Clearances refers to the forcible eviction of the indigenous Gaelic-speaking people of the Scottish Highlands and Islands roughly between 1790 and 1855 to make way for more profitable sheep farms, and later, sporting estates. The blunt result of these evictions, or clearances, was that of a culture altered if not destroyed and the physical landscape transformed beyond all recognition. Many Clearance Highlanders emigrated to Canada and the United States as well as to Australia and New Zealand.

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