and contributing to a Gaelic speaking culture in Manitoba for some time. The crofters' resistance to the Clearances was to the shock of the countess and her advisers, who were, in the words of historian Eric Richards, "genuinely astonished at this response to plans which they regarded as wise and benevolent". Crofter settlements were burned and abandoned ruins can still be seen in the 21st century, though descendants of the cleared crofters were looking to repurchase the lands from the Sutherlands' descendants in 2017.

On 23 July 2007,