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Emily Eliza Steele Gordon Cathcart, ?-1935, wife of Sir Reginald Archibald Edward Cathcart, bart., of Cluny Castle, Sauchen, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, inherited estates in the Western Isles of Scotland. Concerned about the welfare of her crofters (tenant farmers), in 1883 and 1884 she sponsored the settlement of 45 crofter families on lands owned by the Canada North West Land Company in the vicinity of Wapella, Saskatchewan. She continued to have an interest in lands in that district into the 1930s.
For further information see: A Study of Locational Changes among Hebridean Immigrants in Southeast Saskatchewan, 1883 to 1926 / Marilyn Lesley Lewry (M.A. thesis, University of Regina, 1985); and Help us to a Better Land : Crofter Colonies in the Prairie West / Wayne Norton. -- Regina : Canadian Plains Research Center, University of Regina, 1994.