Oak Island: Missing Links

by James A. McQuiston FSASct

Oak Missing Links debunks the naysayers who insist on discounting the age old legend of Scottish sailors coming to Oak Island long before Christopher Columbus discovered America, proving that it could be done, easily and often, that there were many early links of Scotsmen to Nova Scotia, and that there were many links of these same Scots families to Knights Templar and Masonic legends.It also provides logical explanations for the Mi'kmaq First Nations' traditions of a man-god named Glooscap, and his brother Malsum, and also for an Italian tradition which includes the name Zichmini, and a land called Estotiland. Rather than the centuries of doubt these four names have cast on a voyage of Sir Henry Sinclair to Nova Scotia, in 1398, these new theories actually strongly support this voyage.Author James. A McQuiston is not only a Fellow with the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland (est. 1780), but his Scottish family holds what is believed to be the premier Baronetcy of Nova Scotia dating back to 1625.These never-before explored theories shed some serious light on the subject of Oak Island, Nova Scotia.

172 pages, Paperback

Published March 11, 2016

Reviews

[Susan Ferguson]

A quick read and quite interesting. I have been watching The Curse of Oak Island on tv and this book is a tie-in to one of the theories of what happened on Oak Island. But it's not just that. It's a fascinating brief history of Scotland and the Baronets of Nova Scotia. McQuiston posits that they were mostly former Knights Templar. He pulls lots of facts and relationships together to show why he believes this. McQuiston is a member of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland and a noted scholar of Scottish history.