Story: Scots
Page 13 – External links and sources
More links and websites
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Electric Scotland
This site, prepared in Scotland, is about Scots and people of Scottish descent living in New Zealand, and about Scottish immigration to New Zealand.
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A home away from 'home'
This NZHistory.net.nz exhibition examines the question of where all British immigrants, including the Scots, came from and why.
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Homepage of the Waipu Caledonian Society
The site focuses on the annual Highland games held in one of New Zealand’s oldest Scottish settlements, Waipū. It also tells about the history of the town and the descendants of its Scottish settlers.
More suggestions and sources
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Brooking, Tom, and Jennie Coleman, eds. The heather and the fern: Scottish migration & New Zealand settlement. Dunedin: Otago University Press, 2003.
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Butterworth, Susan, and Graham Butterworth. Chips off the auld rock: Shetlanders in New Zealand. Wellington: Shetland Society of Wellington, 1997.
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Hewitson, Jim. Far off in sunlit places: stories of the Scots in Australia and New Zealand. Carlton South: Melbourne University Press, 1998.
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Hutching, Megan. Long journey for sevenpence: assisted immigration to New Zealand from the United Kingdom, 1947–1975. Wellington: Victoria University Press/Historical Branch, Dept of Internal Affairs, 1999.
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Molloy, Maureen. Those who speak to the heart: the Nova Scotian Scots of Waipu, 1854–1920. Palmerston North: Dunmore, 1991.
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Ogilvie, Gordon. Pioneers of the plains: the Deans of Canterbury. Christchurch: Shoal Bay, 1996.
