Letter: Unworthy Scots?

Now that the Queen has acknowledged the wrongs that had been done to Irish people, can we expect any time soon a similar recognition for the ethnic cleansing of the Highlands and Islands during the Clearances?

The evictions lasted for more than a hundred years and many of the tyrannical landlords and clan chiefs were sitting members in the House of Commons or the House of Lords.

The expulsion of the people was in many instances perpetrated by landlords who had been knighted by the Royal Family. My progenitors were evicted and landed in a dense Canadian forest having survived a tempestuous Atlantic voyage.

Do we not merit an apology or are we in the eyes of the British establishment less worthy than the Irish?

Donald J MacLeod

Woodcroft Avenue

Bridge of Don, Aberdeen