Story: Scots
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From page 1 -Before 1840: sailors and missionaries
From page 2 -1840–1852: organised settlement
From page 3 -The Otago settlement
From page 4 -1853–1870: a surge of Scots
From page 5 -The late 1800s
From page 6 -1900–1945: ebbs and flows
From page 7 -Immigration after 1945
From page 8 -Scottish culture
From page 9 -Education
From page 10 -Scots in public life
From page 11 -Scots and the economy
How to cite this page
John Wilson, Scots, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/story/22314/media (accessed 27 October 2025).
Story by John Wilson, published 4 March 2009, updated 1 August 2024.