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Hundreds of Scots said goodbye to their Hebridean home as they set sail for Canada in April 1923. And to the communities left behind as well as the very fabric of Scottish culture, life was never the ...

How communities are marking the departure of the SS Marloch and the SS Metagama in 1923.

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In April 1923, two steamers left the Western Isles for Canada with nearly 600 emigrants on board. They were the SS Marloch and the SS Metagama sailing from Lochboisdale and Stornoway with nearly 600 ...

The creation of a unique musical tribute to some of the island communities impacted by emigration in the 1920s is being documented on BBC ALBA, one hundred years after the ocean liner SS Metagama ...

In 1923 the SS Marloch and the SS Metagama left the Western Isles for Canada with nearly 600 emigrants on board. This series is inspired by the stories of some of those people.