The 400,000,000-Year Link Between Scotland and Canada

[mickeymoose]

Imagine leaving the familiar mountains of your home in Scotland for a new life in America, settling the exact same mountains.

[Mankorra_Gomorrah]

so when they called it Nova Scotia they weren't kidding.

[Zalgoglaz]

How ironic that many people wound up leaving the mountains of their homeland only to settle in what is ultimately the same mountains, a world away

[andysails]

The Canadian province of Nova Scotia got it's name from "New Scotland". Apparently it's really just "Old Scotland Revisited"

[KendrickMan]

As a nova scotian with this profile picture, I approve of this message.

[CanuckJim]

Which probably explains why my Scots ancestors decided to settle in this part of Canada - the terrain was familiar. Heck they even called the place Nova Scotia - New Scotland.

[fictionmyth]

I am of Scottish decent and live in Southeast Kentucky. My ancestors braved an ocean to end up where they started!

[bellelavictorie]

For the record, the Appalachian mountain range runs through the ENTIRE east coast of the United States and well up into Canada.

[SwedePlaysGames]

400, 000, 000 years is a scary amount of time. Our brains can't even comprehend 1000 years. At least I can't.

[safe-keeper]

:Goes to Loch Ness:
:Makes a video about something else than the sea monster myth:
My hero.

[CapriUni]

These three regions are also linked culturally, as well as geologically. A great number of the European settlers who crossed the ever-widening Atlantic, to make new homes in that region of Canada (aka Nova *Scotia*), and in the Appalachian mountains came from the Highlands of Scotland, as well. 

[KJMTurbo]

this guy can find a literal connection between Scotland and Canada, and I can't even find my prostate.

[JohnDRuddyMannyMan]

This is great! Although, your graphic showing Ireland isn’t quite right. You have the fault going into Lough Foyle, but if you look at the geology, you can see the fault actually continues through Donegal, with the valley of Glenveagh being almost perfectly aligned. Great video though!

[petrichor]

0:26 That building looks so happy gazing out over the water.

[rowansmith]

"the scottish highlands and the Appalachians are one and the same"

*you're telling me i don't actually live in the southern US but in scotland?*

[thecassman]

Great video!

It still amazes me that people refuse to believe that the Earth once had a single land mass... You don't even need to look into the geology of it, just look at a world map...! Particularly the way the west of Africa perfectly matches the east of South America and North America...

[KanedProductions]

I am from Newfoundland and I approve this message!

[jacobteer]

I live about 2 hours away from the Appalachian and this is one of the most fascinating videos I've ever watched.

[DrScrubbington]

I sometimes have a hard time imagining that our planet's land changes form over time, slowly, but surely. The fact that all the land and the way we see it now is completely different from how it was 250 million years ago is astonishing.

[toposebi]

This is something I had already heard of before... and yet Tom told it in such a way and with so much detail fact that it almost seems new to me. Great job, Tom.