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"The now peaceful Strath of Kildonan, once
violently cleared of its people in the 'bliadhna na losgaidh'
('Year of the Burnings') in an oil painting by B. Davies, passed
down from Angus Gunn, Miller of Portgower."
Courtesy of Martin Craig
(descendant).
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'The Emigrants' Clearances statue, Helmsdale, in
Sutherland
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"Badbea, clinging to sloping ground
between the great sheep wall and the North Sea cliffs."
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The Badbea Memorial (1)
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The Badbea Memorial (2)
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The Badbea Memorial (3)
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The Badbea Memorial (4) |
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"Badbea Memorial and the sea."
Photo taken by Bryce Sutherland, Scotland.
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"The ruins of a Badbea homestead,
where one of our ancestors' families once lived."
Photo courtesy of Jenny Clark, Australia.
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"The Badbea Memorial was built from
the stones of John Sutherland's ("John of Badbea") home."
Photo courtesy of Jenny Clark, Australia.
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"Badbea landscape, showing the steep ground
our ancestor's homes were built on."
Photo taken by Bryce Sutherland,
Scotland.
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"Close-up of 'The Emigrants' statue
at Helmsdale, near Kildonan."
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