Furthest to the south on the shores of St. George's Bay, is the town of Highlands. Not only was the area settled by "Highlanders", but the topology of the area is also like that found in Scotland.

According to Alexander Murray, in his "Geological Survey" for 1874, cited in the ENL the "term "Highlands" was "appropriate as the scenery of the back country is quite of the Highland type; and the inhabitants of the coast at that part are descendants of the Scottish celts, who still retain the language of their ancestors."

Similarly, According to Rosemary Sommer, also cited in the ENL, her studies of "migratory and kinship patterns in the Codroy Valley", going as far back as the early 1840s "the Scots dominated Little River and Highlands, but almost all settlements had an intermingling of Scots and others."

According to her findings by the 1880s "nearly sixty-seven per cent of the residents claimed Scottish ancestry, with the majority of the Highland Scots originating in Judique, Inverness County, Cape Breton and other Gulf areas of Scottish settlement".

In terms of the topology of the land, The Rev. Fr. Sears (cited in the ENL) described the early settlers in the 1870s as "a few families of faithful Scotch Highlanders who have settled on a beautiful plateau just under the Cape Anguille range of mountains whence the plane [sic] takes the very appropriate name of 'Highlands.'

These people speak the ancient Gaelic still. There is not a race that ever were blessed with a knowledge of God's Church more steadfast than the Catholic Highlanders.

There are about sixty families [sic] of this class [in St. George's Bay], faithful to their religion, loyal and obedient to their spiritual superiors".

Used with permission from "Uncovering the Origin of 1001 Unique Place Names in Newfoundland and Labrador" 2021 Jennifer Leigh Hill

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