Editing History of Scotland (section)

===End of mass emigration===
While emigration began to tail off in England and Wales after the First World War,<ref name=Thompson1990pp9-10/> it continued apace in Scotland, with 400,000 Scots, ten per cent of the population, estimated to have left the country between 1921 and 1931.<ref name=Buchanan2003p51/> The economic stagnation was only one factor; other push factors included a zest for travel and adventure, and the pull factors of better job opportunities abroad, personal networks to link into, and the basic cultural similarity of the United States, Canada, and Australia. Government subsidies for travel and relocation facilitated the decision to emigrate. Personal networks of family and friends who had gone ahead and wrote back, or sent money, prompted emigrants to retrace their paths.<ref>A. McCarthy, "Personal Accounts of Leaving Scotland, 1921–1954", ''Scottish Historical Review'',' Oct 2004, vol. 83 (2), Issue 216, pp. 196–215.</ref> When the [[Great Depression]] hit in the 1930s there were no easily available jobs in the US and Canada and the numbers leaving fell to less than 50,000 a year, bringing to an end the period of mass emigrations that had opened in the mid-18th century.<ref>S. M. Millett, ''The Scottish Settlers of America: the 17th and 18th centuries'' (Genealogical Publishing Com, 2009), p. 64.</ref>