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"Grenada, known for intensive sugar and cotton production, was the most attractive of the [Caribbean] islands to investors, and it is estimated that the number of Europeans there rose from 1,225 in 1763 to 1,661 in 1773. The majority were British, but '''Highland and Lowland Scots represented twenty-one per cent of all landowners''' (fifty-seven per cent of British ones) by 1772, and '''possessed roughly forty per cent of all land planted in sugar and coffee'''." <ref>"Grenada Heritage: From the Caribbean back to Scotland", Grenada Family Records Centre, https://grenadanationalarchives.wordpress.com/2016/03/01/grenada-heritage-from-the-caribbean-back-to-scotland/, accessed 6 May 2021.</ref> | "Grenada, known for intensive sugar and cotton production, was the most attractive of the [Caribbean] islands to investors, and it is estimated that the number of Europeans there rose from 1,225 in 1763 to 1,661 in 1773. The majority were British, but '''Highland and Lowland Scots represented twenty-one per cent of all landowners''' (fifty-seven per cent of British ones) by 1772, and '''possessed roughly forty per cent of all land planted in sugar and coffee'''." <ref>"Grenada Heritage: From the Caribbean back to Scotland", Grenada Family Records Centre, https://grenadanationalarchives.wordpress.com/2016/03/01/grenada-heritage-from-the-caribbean-back-to-scotland/, accessed 6 May 2021.</ref> | ||
===Indian Arrival Day=== | |||
'''Indian Arrival Day''' is a holiday celebrated on various days in the nations of the Caribbean, Fiji, and Mauritius, commemorating the arrival of people from the Indian subcontinent to their respective nation as '''indentured labour brought by European colonial authorities and their agents.''' On 29 April 2009, the Government of Grenada declared that the 1st of May would officially be designated as Indian Arrival Day. The Government also announced that Boucherie Road, the road leading to the site of the arrival of the Maidstone, would be officially renamed Maidstone Road to honor the arrival of Indians in Grenada. On 2 May 2009. Governor General Sir Carlyle Glean unveiled a granite plaque commemorating the arrival of the first Indians in Grenada. The plaque bears the inscription, '''"On 1st May 1857, in this bay the sailing vessel "Maidstone" anchored and landed 287 passengers having left India three months earlier, with 304 passengers. Between the years 1857 and 1890 other ships anchored in this and other bays bringing a total of 3,200 persons from India to work as agricultural indentured labourers in Grenada. This monument is dedicated to those who became the genesis of the Indo-Grenadian population of our nation".<ref>"Indian Arrival Day", in Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Arrival_Day#Grenada, accessed 6 May 2021.</ref> | |||
==Emigration from Grenada== | ==Emigration from Grenada== | ||