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Cave Memorial Church, South Canterbury

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Cave Memorial Church, South Canterbury

Highland shepherds and farmers who came to New Zealand in the 1860s and 1870s made the sheep runs of the Mackenzie Country their own. The Scottish presence in the South Island high country is commemorated at the memorial church at Cave, where a Scottish family, the Burnetts, owned land.

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John Wilson, Scots – 1853–1870: a surge of Scots, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/212/cave-memorial-church-south-canterbury (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by John Wilson, published 4 March 2009, updated 1 August 2024.