The CD unfolds a true tale of tragedy and triumph, chronicling the migration of 109 families from the isle of Lewis in Scotland’s Outer Hebrides to the remote backwoods of 19th century Upper Canada. Victims of a kind of ethnic cleansing known as the Highland Clearances, the Lewis emigrants were evicted from their Hebridean crofts in 1851 by landowner James Matheson. The crofters were then transported overseas, where they settled together on a block of farms in the centre of Huron Township, maintaining their language and culture well into the 20th century. The group has become known as the Lewis Settlers.