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Volume 36 Number 11 The world’s largest international Scottish newspaper May 2013 Publisher Contact: Scottish Banner Pty Ltd. The Scottish Banner Editor PO Box 6202 Coming full, stone, circle Sean Cairney Marrickville South, NSW, 2204 to visit a prehistoric stone circle Thousands of years of mythical EDITORIAL STAFF Tel:(02) 9559-6348 near Inverness, and fall through the stories and tales have been created Jim Stoddart [email protected] stones—and into the 18th century- and in many instances their existence The National Piping Centre and so began an incredible journey still remains a mystery today. Perhaps David McVey not only for Claire but the Outlander it is the legends of these great stone Lady Fiona MacGregor Eric Bryan franchise. We are delighted to have monuments that is all we need to David C. Weinczok Graham McTavish, or as some may keep us fascinated. Folklore and Judy Vickers know as Dougal MacKenzie from the legend have left a physical memorial Nick Drainey first two series of the show, speak to in Scotland’s many stone spaces and us about his new book Clanlands and leaves us with many questions of soon to be released TV series Men in their importance. by Sean Cairney Kilts with Outlander’s Sam Heughan. Scotland’s connection with stones Follow us on social media Both Graham and Sam have a true however does not always have to be love of Scotland and its incredible with large relics. What got my mind ver ten thousand years ago story and I can think of few others on stones was the recent passing of the earliest inhabitants of that can engage so many and keep an incredible lady I knew for nearly Scotland began erecting Scotland on the mind of not just my whole life. Agnes Maxwell was Distributed monthly in Australia, Canada, stone monuments which Scots but a worldwide audience. brought up in a Govan tenement New Zealand and the USA. ISSN 2209-8364 Ohave left a shroud of mystery for by the banks of the River Clyde in Australia Post Print Approved PP:100004806 historians to work out their cultural Glasgow. Published monthly by Scottish Banner Publications or spiritual importance. Folklore You can often hear the Later Agnes would settle in PO Box 6220, Marrickville South, NSW, 2204, Australia and myth surround these large Canada and raise four incredible stone formations which can be saying ‘If these walls daughters, who I grew up with. Agnes The publisher reserves the right to reject, discontinue or omit any advertisement or to found across Scotland, with claims believed in the ancient Scottish ritual cancel any advertising contract for reasons satisfactory to the publisher, without notice, and without penalty to either party. All advertising and reading matter is subject to of supernatural, sacred, and healing could talk’, well in of stones in relation to loss and grief. Publisher’s approval. Right reserved to revise or reject advertising and reading material powers. Ancient stones scatter Stones can stand for pain you wish in accordance with standards acceptable to the Scottish Banner, without notice. The Scotland you can also add advertiser agrees that the publisher shall not be liable for damages arising out of errors the Scottish landscape today from to relinquish, by releasing a stone in advertising beyond the amount of space paid for, whether such errors are due to historic Cairn monuments, stone you release the pain and begin the negligence, copy right or otherwise. The publisher does not endorse the historical circles, Neolithic burial chambers stones to that phrase. process of healing. Stones are also a accuracy of the editorial stance of materials submitted for publication. The publisher reserves the right edit all submitted material prior to publication. and bronze age tombs. symbol of hope and you can place a

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Send us your inquiries on life’s little question marks. Ever wanted to know what happened to your old pal from home, how to make SCOT POURRI your favourite Scottish meal, or wondered about a certain bit of Scottish history? Val Cairney Scottish lamb Gordon Lambsay Hi Sean, The Battle of St Valery What a great loss this will be to the worldwide both were caught and with other French Scottish community. Through the soldiers were taken prisoner and put Scottish Banner and her creativity, she into a French prison camp. He was given brought a lot of happiness to me, and a French number, even though he told thousands of fellow Scots around the world. them who he was. By this time Audrey’s I have always looked forward to receiving mum was sent a telegram that he was my copy since the Banner’s first days in missing and presumed dead. 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The Mother of the Scottish Banner The lost songs of St Kilda It came as an enormous shock to read Thank you for the latest issue (the Scottish Banner, July, 2020), as usual it’s very of the passing of Valerie Cairney, “The Far too tired :-) to get out with the camera interesting, it makes me want to be back Mother of the Scottish Banner”. I have tonight so here’s an #Edinburgh skyline been reading the Banner for the last 20 there but can’t see that happening! #sunset pic from last year. years and I thoroughly enjoy reading The St. Kilda item was of great interest, I The Bluebells of #Scotland. A View From My Camera it, I even try my knowledge with the knew the history and I thought that you may Charles McGuigan Scotland crossword. I pass the publication on be interested in a CD that I have. A former Scotland The Falkirk Wheel to a friend of ours, who then passes workmate made a copy for me and the music Stirling Castle it to a local aged care home where it is gorgeous. Trevor Morrison, a resident at is read by both staff and residents. an Edinburgh care home, would play the I remain a true and faithful reader. piano but only when no one was around. C Bruce He had been evacuated from Glasgow to Jennings, NSW the Isle of Bute where he had piano lessons Australia from an itinerant piano teacher who told him that these were the melodies the men Gaelic in Auckland used to call to each other as they scaled Feasgar math, the cliffs to look for the eggs of seabirds. I am learning Scottish Gaelic and No other recordings of these songs exist, unfortunately the Gaelic Society in there was no sheet music and none of the A true hidden gem, Gilmours Linn Auckland, New Zealand, has closed. original islanders are alive. Trevor passed (Charlies cave) at Touch Cambusbarron. I am looking for a native or fluent speaker away shortly after his friend with the aid of a Legend has it that the cave was used by in Auckland who would be interested three-pound microphone recorded it from Charles Edward Stuart while in hiding in helping me with conversation the old piano onto his laptop. Evidently the from British Forces following the failed practice, maybe, listen to me read. songs ended up with Decca Records. There’s a Jacobite Rebellion in 1745, presumably, Le meas fair bit more on the CD liner. These haunting ended in disarray. Falkirk Wheel happy 18th birthday! Briar Peat melodies could easily have been lost. Tommy Hamilton Photo Robert Gibb Auckland, New Zealand Jocelyn Layton Scotland Scotland Email: [email protected] Wyndham, Western Australia

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Page 4 • The Scottish Banner • November 2020 THE SCOTTISH BANNER Strathclyde researchers find genetic signature of ancient MacDougall bloodline high school biology that only boys have a analysis determined that he and another Y-chromosome that creates maleness. match, a MacDougall man, had a The direct paternal ancestors of a man common DNA marker which ultimately pass down their Y chromosome from proved to be the marker for the ancestral generation to generation and the code MacDougall line. This discovery inspired locked within their DNA is unique. the researchers to test more MacDougall With today’s advanced DNA testing men and now more than a dozen men who techniques, we are able to detect many are of the ancestral MacDougall bloodline more mutations in the DNA sequences have been discovered. of MacDougall men who are alive today. At one time, the MacDougalls were This has helped us identify ancient one of the most powerful and influential DNA mutations that are similar to but, families in Western Scotland. However, their importantly, different from those carried fate was to turn in the early 1300s when the by men descended from Somerled’s fourth clan chief, Alexander MacDougall, grandson, who was called Donald and was allied the MacDougalls with John Bailliol, the progenitor of the MacDonald clan.” in his contest with Robert the Bruce, for the prize of the Scottish Crown. Much of this enetic markers for the Clan The first genetic signature for Somerled One of the most powerful and story was told in recent Bruce movies such MacDougall have been was discovered and published in 2005 by influential families in Western Scotland as Outlaw King and The Return of the King. discovered by Genealogy researchers at the University of Oxford, One participant in the study, Eddie Several generations later, under the clan researchers at the University and since then, the US-based Clan Donald Sweeney, was adopted and discovered the leadership of Ewan Gallda MacDougall, Gof Strathclyde. The clan line they have DNA Project has enabled thousands of identity of his birth mother after receiving much of the MacDougall lands and discovered descends from Dougall, King of present-day MacDonalds around the a copy of his original birth certificate; possessions, including Dunollie Castle near the Isle of Man and founder of the ancient world to trace their ancestry back to their however, finding his biological father’s Oban, were restored to the clan. However, over Scottish Kingdom of the Isles and Lorn. Scottish roots. identity proved more challenging. He the next few centuries this disruption Dougall (c1140-c1207) was the eldest son Alasdair Macdonald, lead researcher worked with the nuns who managed caused a global dispersal of many of Somerled, the ancient warrior sea- for the MacDougall DNA Research Project his adoption and eventually found MacDougall clansmen and a significant king and progenitor of the MacDonald, and Teaching Fellow in Genealogy at information that confirmed his father to loss of power for the Clan. MacAllister, and MacDougall clans. Strathclyde’s Centre for Lifelong Learning, have been a McDougall man. Men named MacDougall, or with names Somerled expelled his Scoto-Norse described the finding of the MacDougall In parallel, Mr Sweeney took a Y-DNA derived from MacDougall, who would rivals from Argyll, Kintyre and the Isles but DNA markers as truly significant and test and found that his genetic marker like to participate in the study can go was himself a Norseman paternally, having said that it had been made possible as a matched that of Somerled, and that online to find more details about the a genetic signature that is more common result of recent progress in commercial he matched many men with distant project and an application form for a in Scandinavia than in Scotland. DNA tests. He said: “We all learned in MacDonald ancestors. However, further free test. See: www.macdougalldna.org Remember, Remember, the Fifth of November...

Perth lights up for Bonfire Night on November 5th.

he year was 1605 and some English To celebrate his survival, King James ordered Catholics were angry because the the people of England to have a bonfire on King of England, James the 1st, was the night of November 5th. treating them badly. In November T1605 a group of men made a plan to blow up Bonfires, Guys and fireworks the Houses of Parliament (the government Traditionally on November 5th people buildings) in London. An enormous remember the plot to blow up the Houses of explosion was planned for November 5th. Parliament by celebrating ‘Bonfire Night’. This was the day that the King was due All over Britain there are firework displays to open parliament. The plan is known as and bonfires with models of Guy Fawkes, the ‘Gunpowder Plot’ and the leader of the which are burned on the fire. The Guy group was called Guy Fawkes. The men is made of old clothes and the clothes put 36 barrels of gunpowder (a type of are filled with newspaper. The Guy is a explosive) in the Houses of Parliament and reminder of Guy Fawkes. The fireworks they waited for the King to arrive. The group are a reminder of the gunpowder that Guy decided that Guy Fawkes should light the Fawkes hid in the cellar of Parliament. gunpowder and cause the explosion. Some people have a small bonfire in their Did they succeed? No, they didn’t. The police garden on November 5th. In main towns found the gunpowder before it exploded and and cities there are big bonfires and firework they caught all the men involved in the plot. displays planned across the UK and Scotland The men were tortured and killed. will also light up the night this month.

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Scotspeak is a selection of quotes which made headlines in SCOTSPEAK Scotland last month on a variety of current Scottish affairs. “Our vision is to build a truly sustainable by the Edinburgh Musical Society in the Simon Foster, NatureScot Trends “With a drop in passengers, it just becomes business that is a core economic asset for Old Town in 1762, the Georgian venue is and Indicators Analyst, said that a harsh reality that things can’t continue, Orkney, but also a first phase in enabling a hidden gem, attracting thousands of butterfly populations have increased sadly. People have been very good to offer a scale of investment and logistical visitors each year. The work of the museum in Scotland, likely as a consequence of donations and crowdfunding, but honestly capability for the UK which will be of includes the care and conservation warmer summers. The latest Scottish that wasn’t what we were after. We were after international significance. We believe the of rare, often fragile, instruments. Biodiversity Indicator published people coming down to ride the railway.” time is right to maximise the incredible “Glasgow is a fantastic city with cutting- by NatureScot examines the long- John Kerr of Kerr’s Miniature Railway in natural assets and geography of Scapa edge culture and nightlife, and right now term trend for butterflies since 1979. Arbroath said his family business has Flow and Orkney to ensure a long-term Dennistoun is at the cutting edge of the Some butterfly populations in the been forced to close. Scotland’s oldest sustainable future for our communities.” city’s cool, with independents popping up UK continue to shift northwards as miniature railway had been part of many Orkney Islands Council leader James and artists brightening up the winding a response to climate change. children’s fun on Arbroath’s seafront since Stockan said as Orkney Harbours have streets. We were really blown away by 1935. Visitor numbers in recent years have released a £230m plan to give the island the amazing initiatives that businesses been on the decline with more children ‘a cleaner and greener future’. Proposals and locals started at the beginning of look to computer entertainment and include creating a £115m deep water quay the pandemic – it showed there was seaside attractions across the UK close. at Scapa Flow, the largest natural deep- real heart in the neighbourhood.” water harbour in the northern hemisphere, James Manning, international editor of Time will create over 100 jobs for the area. Out magazine, said as the Glasgow suburb of Dennistoun has been rated as the eighth coolest neighbourhood in the world. Also, “Midsteeple Quarter is an innovative in the top ten were Esquerra De L’Eixample, initiative led by the people of Dumfries. Barcelona (in first position), Downtown LA, It is effective because it has collaboration Bedford-Stuyvesant in New York, Wedding at its heart – collaboration between the in Berlin and Marrickville in Sydney. community, public and private sectors. “Christmas is a special time in our city and The current crisis of the high street prompted hugely exciting for individuals and families us to rethink our town centre as somewhere who take advantage of the city’s winter offer. “As the oldest purpose-built concert that genuinely meets the needs of our Whilst we understand the absence of popular venue in Scotland, St Cecilia’s Hall is an population and using empty buildings events will bring some disappointment, we internationally-significant attraction provides us with a unique opportunity to want to be clear that Edinburgh’s Christmas offering a rare glimpse into our musical bring creativity into the thought process isn’t cancelled and our businesses right past. We’re delighted to be re-opening our of deciding their future purpose. We across the city will be offering their usual doors to members of the public. Rigorous aspire to create a new neighbourhood festive cheer for us to take advantage of. safety measures will be in place to ensure “We know that habitat loss, climate with a mix of uses built on principles We look forward to announcing details the health of our staff and visitors.” change and urban development are of local prosperity and well-being.” of an innovative digital 2020 programme Ruthanne Baxter, Museums Services among the key factors that are affecting Scott Mackay, Manager of Midsteeple soon to help in these celebrations.” Manager, said as Scotland’s oldest purpose- butterfly populations. We are working Quarter Project said the Midsteeple Edinburgh City Councils Adam McVey built concert venue and music museum is with partners across Scotland on a range Quarter project is one of six held up in a said that public events associated with once again opening its doors to members of projects to help our butterflies and study looking at the decline of town centre Edinburgh’s Christmas program have of the public. St Cecilia’s Hall is home to the other pollinators thrive, from habitat shopping in Dumfries. The community-led been cancelled. This includes market Edinburgh University’s world-class collection creation and management to promoting group has been purchased town centre stalls, rides and all other attractions. of musical instruments, as well as a unique wildlife friendly gardening and best retail premises to help realise its vision of a Instead, the focus will move to celebrating oval-shaped concert room. Originally built practice guidance for developers.” brighter future for Dumfries town centre. Edinburgh’s Christmas 2020 online. SCOTWORD

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Here is a fun crossword for you to try with a few of the answers to be found in Scotland! If you are in doubt, you may need a wee peek at a Scots dictionary or a map. Or, if you are 8 9 really stuck, the answers can be found on page 10!

10 CLUES ACROSS: CLUES DOWN: 11 1) Marshes (4). 1) David Livingstone’s birthplace 12 3) Adequately fitting! (8). 2) Glen - both ways! (7). 8) Battle or Lochaber! (4). 4) Not substantial (6). 13 14 15 9) “Smokie” town (8). 5) Road surface! (10). 16 11) Central area of beauty (3,9). 6) Impetuous (5) 17 18 13) Her Majesty’s signature (6). 7) Sound return! (4).

19 14) Games performer (6). 10) Giant step in opening dance (5,5). 17) Princess Margaret’s birthplace (6,6). 12) James Watt’s birthplace (8). 20 21 20) Acting wary (8). 15) Food provider (7). 21) Where Scots find work! (4). 16) Behind on board (6).

22 23 22) Wholesaler (8). 18) Hi-tech beam (5). 23) Enterprising space journey! (4) 19) Was Mac the first Scot? (4).

Page 6 • The Scottish Banner • November 2020 THE SCOTTISH BANNER Discover Perthshire On 27 July 1689, the first shot was fired in the Battle ofKilliecrankie , Dunkeld. one of the goriest clashes in Jacobite history. The visitor centre gives you all the background to the battle, as well as Did you know? information about the area’s geology, • Perthshire’s Fortingall Yew Tree is wildlife and history. You can also visit believed to be the oldest tree in Britain the famous spot where a Redcoat soldier and one of the oldest in all of Europe. leapt for his life across the River Garry. Linn of Tummel is the point where • The delightful town of Dull in the rivers Garry and Tummel meet. Perthshire is paired with both The circular walk takes you along Boring in Oregon, America and also riverbanks, through woods and over Australia’s Bland Shire. footbridges, providing spectacular • Scotland’s oldest established family views all the way. A 1.5 mile walk at the record shop, Concorde music, is in Hermitage leads to Ossian’s Hall, an Perth, established in 1967. th unusual folly built in the 18 century to • The River Tay, which flows from Loch provide a thrilling vantage point over the Tay to Perth and beyond, is Scotland’s roaring torrent of the Black Linn Falls. longest river. Text and images are courtesy of the National Ben Lawers. • The Stone of Scotland, used for Trust for Scotland. For more information on centuries in the coronations of the Trust or to help them protect Scotland’s Scottish monarchs used to be housed erthshire’s woodlands are hard to Ben Lawers itself is Scotland’s tenth- heritage see: www.nts.org.uk at the now-ruined Scone Abbey in beat - but there is much more to highest Munro at 3,984ft (1,214m). Scone. ‘Big Tree Country’ than woods and At 407m, Craigower is considerably smaller forests. Branklyn Garden is home than Ben Lawers, but the views from the • The Meikleour Beech Hedge (located Pto an outstanding collection of exotic, rare summit are equally outstanding – Loch just outside Blairgowrie) was planted and unusual plants. Established almost Tummel, Loch Rannoch and even Glencoe in 1745 and stands at a whopping 100 years ago, this charming garden was can all be seen from the top. 100ft (30m) high and 530m long, and cultivated by Dorothy and John Renton, Situated on the banks of the River Tay, is recognised by the Guinness Book of who sourced seeds from the most eminent Dunkeld is one of the most picturesque World Records as the highest hedge in plant hunters of the 1920s. Ben Lawers towns in Perthshire. The National Trust the world. It is thought to have been National Nature Reserve offers a range for Scotland has sympathetically restored planted by men who were then called of walks for all abilities and levels of 20 of the historical houses in the square to fight in the Jacobite Rebellion, only to never return. fitness, including a child-friendly, 1 mile around the old market cross, although they Ossian’s Hall at the Hermitage. caterpillar trail. are not open to the public. In Flanders Fields By John McCrae, May 1915 In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place; and in the sky The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid the guns below. We are the Dead. Short days ago We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow, Loved and were loved, and now we lie In Flanders fields. Take up our quarrel with the foe: To you from failing hands we throw The torch; be yours to hold it high. If ye break faith with us who die We shall not sleep, though poppies grow In Flanders fields.

The poem was written by a Canadian Medical Corps doctor, Major John McCrae, who was serving with a Field Artillery Brigade in Ypres. The death of one of his friends in May 1915, buried in the cemetery outside his dressing station, affected him severely and he wrote his poem as a way of expressing his anguish at the loss. On the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month in 1918, the guns of the Western Front fell silent after more than four years of continuous warfare during the First World War. Wednesday November 11th marks the 102nd anniversary of the Armistice which ended the First World War (1914–18). Remember those who gave their lives in the two world wars and all who have died in combat since. Lest We Forget.

The Scottish Banner • November 2020 • Page 7 THE SCOTTISH BANNER Autumn in Scotland Killin, Loch Lomond & The Trossachs National Park-Fuelled by the autumn rain, the Falls of Dochart make for a spectacular sound and sight as the water cascades over the rocks and under the bridge. Follow part of the 12-mile route from Killin to Ardtalnaig, along the famous Rob Roy The Falls of Dochart. Way, for views over the head of Loch Tay towards the Tarmachan Ridge and Ben Lawers range. University buildings, Old Aberdeen- Dawyck Botanic Garden, Scottish Check out the New King’s building at the Borders-Take in the fiery colours at University of Aberdeen in autumn for Dawyck Botanic Garden as well as the something very special indeed: watch in autumn fruits; from acorns to crab awe as the ivy scaling the building turns apples, maple keys to fir cones and a deep shade of red early in the season. Faskally Forest, Perthshire. everyone’s favourites, the conkers Aberdeen city and elsewhere in the region produced by the horse chestnut trees. have other great spots to check out the The Garden is a feast for all the senses; colours of the season, including Crathes “The lazy mist hangs from the brow of the hill, Autumn colours take in the gorgeous caramel scent of the Castle, located just outside the city, and the “Concealing the course of the dark winding rill; Seeing the autumn colours in Scotland large Japanese Katsura tree. Falls of Feugh near Banchory. “How languid the scenes, late so sprightly, appear, should be on everyone’s bucket list. “As Autumn to Winter resigns the pale year...” With seven out of the ten largest forests (The Lazy Mist by Robert Burns) in the UK in Scotland, visitors are spoilt for choice when it comes to immersing obert Burns was certainly onto themselves in fiery scenery during something when he wrote about woodland walks. Alternatively, check out autumn in Scotland and its tendency some scenic walks in the city: to stir the soul; it’s a time for orange Faskally Forest, Perthshire-Take a Rand red leaves, lazy afternoon walks, cosy wander around the ‘forester’s classroom’, jumpers, a warm bowl of soup, picking where some of the wide variety of tree pumpkins (or turnips, as is the historical species are over 200 years old. Within preference in Scotland) for Halloween, or Faskally Forest and close to the car park perhaps celebrating the tradition of Samhain and picnic site lies the wonderfully (pronounced sah-wen) on 31 October. tranquil Loch Dunmore, with its New King’s building, So come discover some autumnal inspiration boat house and picturesque timber Dawyck Botanic Garden. University of Aberdeen. for the next time we can visit Scotland. footbridge.

Fast facts about St Andrew Registration opens for the 2021 St Andrew’s Day-Celebrating our patron saint New York Tartan Day Parade OVID-19 announcement from The National Tartan Day New York Committee: We know that we are

Scotland.org being optimistic thinking that the CParade will take place as planned, and that we will be able to put 2020 behind us. • St Andrew is the Patron Saint of Scotland. We will be taking every precaution possible • St Andrew is celebrated on 30 November. as outlined by the CDC, and the NY State • St Andrew’s Day is a day to celebrate Government guidelines. We will continue Scottish culture, food and dance. to stay up to date on all regulations. • St Andrew’s flag is the flag of Scotland. Kyle Dawson, President of The National t Andrew’s Day is a wonderful the inspiration for the flag named after him – • The flag is in the form of a white X on Tartan Day NY Committee, told the Scottish Text & image courtesy of Text opportunity to celebrate Scottish Scotland’s Saltire, which has a white diagonal a blue background and is commonly Banner: “We are all very optimistic that we culture, food and dance. Initially, cross over a blue background. known as The Saltire. will get through all this and be able to get it was a way for homesick Scots St Andrew is also the patron saint of • St Andrew’s Societies celebrate Scottish back to doing what we all love so much, Sto get together and help each other out; Greece, Russia, Barbados and Romania. culture around the world. which is celebrate Scottish heritage and the first Society of St Andrews was set • St Andrew’s Day is a bank holiday the contributions to the United States from up in Charleston, South Carolina, on 30 Celebrations all over Scotland in Scotland but entitlement to leave Scottish immigrants and Scottish Americans.” November, 1729, dedicated to offering On 30 November, 1996 the Stone of depends on the employer. So, make a plan, (don’t you feel better already?), to come out, and join us to march support to Scottish migrants in distress. Destiny, a symbolic block of sandstone • St Andrew is also the patron saint of Nowadays, it’s an opportunity for a party that for centuries had been used in the Romania, Greece and Russia. up Sixth Avenue in New York City, wear your kilt, listen to the skirl of the bagpipes, and to with Scottish dancing, singing, storytelling, coronation of Scottish monarchs, but • Scotland is one of the few countries to the cheers tens of thousands of spectators. bagpipes and, of course, a feast featuring was taken by the English – was officially have one of Christs disciples as their We admit bias when we say it is the most haggis and whisky. And with more than 40 returned to Scotland and kept safe in patron saint. fun Parade in New York City, and we sorely million people around the world claiming Edinburgh Castle. Ever since then the • St Andrew was one of the Twelve missed it in 2020. So, join us in 2021 for Scottish ancestry, that’s a lot of celebration. Castle has opened for free every St Apostles (disciples of Jesus) and pipe bands from across the globe, dancers, Andrew’s Day so that people can see the brother of St Peter. clans, dogs, politicians, Scottish cultural Patron saint of Scotland famous stone. A number of other Historic • St Andrew is believed to have died on organizations, plus of COURSE, the Loch St Andrew is the patron saint of Scotland. A Environment Scotland venues offer free a diagonally transversed cross which Ness Monster, in a joyous New York City Galilean fisherman, he was one of Jesus’s 12 or discounted entry on this special day the Romans sometimes used for celebration of Scottish apostles, and was known for being strong, as well. Visitors usually need to apply for executions and which, therefore, came pride. Let’s get back to sociable and fair, encouraging people to share the free tickets online. to be called St Andrews Cross. doing what we love to do; • St Andrew’s Day is connected with what they had with those in need. These are St Andrew’s Day celebrations take place celebrate all things Scottish! characteristics which people all over the all over Scotland throughout November, Advent, which begins on the first The New York Tartan Day word recognise in Scots, and of which Scots from special tasting menus in the Fife town Sunday after November 26. Parade is scheduled to are rightly proud. On 30 November, 60AD, named after the saint, to street food and • St Andrew’s Day marks the beginning take place on April 10, St Andrew is believed to have been crucified storytelling in Edinburgh and special film of Scotland’s winter festivals. 2021. For details see: on a diagonal cross, a shape which provided screenings and other events in Glasgow. www.nyctartanweek.org

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By: Lady Fiona Lady MacGregor’s Scotland MacGregor Lady MacGregor of MacGregor – otherwise known as British writer and broadcaster Fiona Armstrong - works for ITV news and current affairs. Fiona’s husband is the Chief of Clan Gregor, Sir Malcolm MacGregor of MacGregor. She is an active member of Clan Armstrong, so their lives are interwoven with all things tartan. The couple live in the Scottish Borderlands, although filming and writing takes Fiona all over Scotland.

Lady Fiona with Rummie, the fancy takes (corona rules allowing) and to This medieval ruin on a tidal island was It was here they filmed scenes from naughty Norfolk Terrier. stop where the heart desires. Plus, this is once the operating base of Clan Ranald; the Rob Roy movie and the chief is in one voyage where the MacNaughties can folk born with their feet in the water and his element. A former military man he is reetings from Scotland – where come, too. And give me a dog that doesn’t their sword in their hands… also fascinated by the old commando the MacGregor and I have once like adventure… training ranges. These vast areas of again become the Children of the inhospitable terrain are where tens of Mist… I write this in Highland Evocative place These vast areas of thousands of soldiers came to be battle Ghills. We are on the shores of a loch; the Argyll and Inverness-shire are our destinations. hardened before being sent to serve in water gin clear and ruffled only when a Coming up through MacGregor inhospitable terrain are where the second world war. small trout splashes near the shore; the sky country, past the Balquhidder glen. tens of thousands of soldiers Ardnamurchan point is the most bright blue as the morning sun comes up. Home of Clan Gregor, burial place of my westerly part of mainland UK – and we 1 In the distance dense black mountains husband’s ancestors – and the legendary came to be battle hardened can now say that we have stood on it. 02 have their heads in a thin white mist. It is Rob Roy - it is an evocative place. There by the great stone lighthouse. 2 a dramatic spot. One where pine mixes Continuing on through the deep, dark before being sent to serve in In the wind and rain, gazing out across the ly with a less romantic smell. There on the passes of Glencoe. Where Campbells dark waves of the Atlantic. Yet here in the u the second world war. J shingle, on a portable stove, the chief is massacred Macdonald’s. Then memories west Highlands it is not all about struggle. Vernon iBCn busy cooking bacon and eggs… of more murder and mayhem as we pass We drive through pretty villages where July 23 & 24,d 2020 This is day four of the exercise and so Ballachulish where Stewart of the Glen was sunflowers bloom in gardens and cows en far, we have seen no-one, and no-one has wrongly hanged for the death of Campbell Now we bravely enter Cameron country. amble along small tracks. It is, in parts, a ek seen us. Then that was the purpose. To get of Glenure. They were a feisty lot in their day – and land that time forgot. Where life moves e away for a few days. To escape what is It is dramatic clan stuff. At Loch nan they probably still are - but again, we slowly, and Sunday’s newspaper may arrive Armstrongt wArmstrong Fairgrounds, BC not quite a full lockdown, but certainly Uamh we pay homage at the place where meet no-one and the clan museum at on Monday. as a nervous time. Obeying all the rules, Bonnie Prince Charlie landed with just Achnacarry is closed. The day is dry, and So, what have we learned from this, our L we have hit the high road in a low red a handful of men and very little money. the landscape is breath-taking, so we park first trip in a campervan? Well, one is to campervan. It is a rented beast. But, who Further up the road is Glenfinnan where up near the Chia-Aig falls where water take warmer clothes: however many you knows, if the experience is a good one - he went on to raise his standard – and find roars down a dark grey rock side. have, it will not be enough. Two is not to be and so far the omens are fair - we may his Highland support. fussy: when the food ran out and we have get our own. Who knows, this could be Wherever you turn gnarled evergreens A land that time forgot to eat pot noodles for two days running, the only means of reasonably safe travel tower upwards. These monster firs have It is mid-autumn and, happily, the midges we are happy enough. Above all, you need for some time to come. To trundle along survived centuries and are witnesses to have gone. So, too, has the heather, but the to keep a sense of humour. Five nights in a in your own wee house on wheels. A bag ancient fights and feuds. And talking of indestructible bracken hangs defiantly on. sleeping bag is not everyone’s idea of fun. of food in the back. A stash of reading fighting, at Loch Moidart the dogs are All around the leaves are turning, and the But I did it – and, yes, I would do it again. material in the cupboard. To go where the walked across the causeway to Castle Tioram. wooded hillsides glow yellow and orange. Especially in Scotland… Did you know? Vernon BC Canada Scottish Christmas in North America Aberdeen

Aberdeen’s Marischal College is the second biggest granite building in the world. Photo: VisitScotland.

• Aberdeen is known as the ‘Granite City’. • Aberdeen is one the best places The centre of city boasts many granite in the UK to see white beaked buildings which was quarried nearby. and bottlenose dolphins, and also • Aberdeen is Scotland’s third largest city. basking sharks and minke whales. • Aberdeen is considered the oil capital • The Press and Journal is Aberdeen’s of Europe thanks to the North Sea’s daily newspaper and began publishing oil and natural gas refineries. in 1747. It is Scotland’s oldest daily • Doric is Aberdeen’s very own Scots newspaper and one of the longest- dialect and has been granted running newspapers in the world. official language status. • There are over 30 places across the www.scottishcreations.com • Brig O’Balgownie in the city’s world named after Aberdeen. Towns Seaton Park, is the oldest medieval and cities called Aberdeen can be bridge in Scotland, it dates found in Canada, Australia, Hong Representing the very best designs and gifts from Scotland back to the 13th century. Kong, USA and South Africa.

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Australian Jim Stoddart was born in a Glasgow Tenement and raised in a Glasgow Housing Scheme 1943-1965. Jim will be KINGS CASTLES AND taking readers on a trip down memory lane, of a time and place that will never be the same again, and hopes even if only a “DURTY” WEE RASCALS few people in the Scot’s Diaspora have a dormant folk memory awakened, then he shall be more than delighted.

portrayed themselves as pioneers and A Viking Advocate explorers but also confessed to being Freya is the Goddess of Love and villains, especially if they saw themselves beauty. She holds dominion over war, as devoting too much quality time to warfare and piracy. It appears that a Viking death magic and wealth. She wears a considered a risk-taking expedition to necklace called brisingamen, which far-off lands such as Scotland, England or was a gift from the dwarves. When not continental Europe, not only obligatory in her cat-driven chariot, she rides the but also as a legitimate rite of passage, battle-boar, Hildisvini. a not to be missed experience for a young and developing Nordic youth. The contradiction between heroic Viking seamanship, exploration and the wanton, unremitting plunder of other Like any emotive name that lands was at the root of any guilt I may have had in childhood about wanting to be of ‘Viking’ swung between a a Viking. I suspect that in reality it was no stronger a guilt than children like myself good and bad press and the might have suffered about being pirate contradiction of hero versus robbing innocent sea-farers or a ranch owner usurping the land for cattle at the villain was not lost upon the cost of a native Indian tribe. Children of my generation let their imaginations Vikings themselves. roam into the roles that they saw as the more exciting ones and often those that Hollywood had determined for them. Such adventurous expeditions and some domesticated oats and wheat into a recording the activities of these And as for young boys, especially, I wanderings were considered good if they rather poor soil. There can be little doubt invaders from the point of view of the fear there was very often an element of were confined especially to an early stage in that the Viking raiding expeditions and long-suffering victims. They had an violence in the roles we adopted no matter a Viking career. subsequent settling of other lands were axe to grind and naturally enough gave what, highwayman or bushranger we took caused in part by the constraints of feeding an unflattering picture of people they as our temporary role model. Complex Viking character an expanding population from a very saw as vicious predatory destroyers Like any emotive name that of ‘Viking’ Nevertheless once the Viking youth had sown beautiful and scenic countryside but one that and hooligans. And in fairness there swung between a good and bad press and his wild oats, so to speak, it was expected could simply provide limited arable land to was nothing romantic about suffering the contradiction of hero versus villain that he would settle down with Helga and support its people. Raiding brought booty, a cruel surprise attack upon your home was not lost upon the Vikings themselves. his expanding family of children to a more treasure and slaves to supplement limited or church. Yet the latter stages of the It was reflected in their historical writings, peaceful life on the farmstead on the slopes resources at home and settlement elsewhere Norse conquests of the Scottish Isles the Norse sagas. On the one hand they of the fiord. There he was expected to sow brought new opportunities to start a new life. and the Danish invasion of England Contradiction is very evident in the saga were more about colonisation, Scottish Genealogical Research Scotword answers from page 6 of Egil, where Egil, a larger than life character, settlement and trading than raiding. Across: Down: is found in different stages of his life, and Within their own times the Vikings sometimes confusingly simultaneously, were possibly no more cruel and brutal 1 Bogs 1 Blantyre expressing different facets of a man’s than many internecine struggles by Let us build 3 Suitable 2 Glenelg character and nature. At various times he is their counterparts in other places. seen as a kindly family man capable of love The Strathclyde Britons, the Picts your Scottish 8 Axes 4 Unrest and loyalty and at other times a ruthless and the Scots were not, of course, 9 Arbroath 5 Tarmacadam avenger, a man of violence and even an all peace-loving, saintly types. They Family Tree! 11 The Trossachs 6 Brash occasional raving lunatic. He can be a once had a ferocious reputation hero, a funnyman with a sense of humour amongst their neighbours and were Ron Dempsey 13 Regina 7 Echo and a person who defends high principles not always portrayed as romantic General Delivery 14 Dancer 10 Grand March and values but can also be a rabble rouser warriors fighting against Anglo-Saxon working himself up to go berserk on Viking invaders. They too were recorded as Udora, Ontario 17 Glamis Castle 12 Greenock killing sprees. The little Lewis chessmen aggressors and violent people, feared L0C 1L0, Canada 20 Discreet 15 Caterer biting into their shields before battle provides for their raiding, plundering and 21 Broo 16 Astern an insight into how worked up some of these destruction of peaceful settlements. For details email: berserkers could become. In the 5th century St Patrick called 22 Merchant 18 Laser In Egil’s poem, purportedly written by the Picts “utterly iniquitous” and a [email protected] th 23 Trek 19 Adam Egil when aged twelve but more likely to British monk Gildas in the 6 century have been written much later by Snorri described “foul hordes of Scots and Sturluson, there is a romantic beginning Picts, like dark throngs of worms… but a blood lust to finish it showing his in perfect accord in their greed for complex Viking character. He starts in the bloodshed…inflicted the cruellest saga itself as a crude peasant, becomes massacres on the Britons, in which an adventurer but later his very evident the pitiable citizens were torn apart violent tendencies come to the fore. by their foe like lambs by the butcher.” He becomes a berserker early in his career, So, cruelty and violence in early purposely working himself up into a rage times was not confined to Vikings. and frenzy before going into battle. The Picts of the north had defeated He then becomes an outlaw yet was the Britons of Strathclyde, the Angles of destined to finally settle down as a Lothian and even the Scots of Dalriada coloniser on a farm in Iceland. Egil’s story but not the Viking threat. Pictish power provides a compelling trait of contradiction subsequently crumbled and in 843 between violence and peaceful domesticity AD Kenneth MacAlpine, King of Scots, in the Viking character. who luckily had Pictish blood on his mother’s side deposed the last Pictish Vicious predatory nobles and merged their kingdom destroyers and hooligans into his own. In a rather roundabout Vikings have suffered a very bad press way, the Vikings had helped to create from time to time with clerical writers the Kingdom of Scotland by uniting such as the Venerable Bede naturally the whole country against them.

Page 10 • The Scottish Banner • November 2020 THE SCOTTISH BANNER The 17thAnnual Scottish North American Community Conference will take place virtually this year on Zoom December 4th-6th he Scottish North American This will be followed by a panel of Community Conference (SNACC) leading experts on genetic genealogy was formed by the Chicago Scots affiliated with Family Tree DNA of Houston, and American Scottish Foundation TX on their 300+ Scottish surname projects: T(ASF) with The Detroit St Andrews, COSCA, - Keith MacGregor, U.S. Board Member for CASSOC and Scottish Studies Guelph the Clan Gregor Society, Scotland completing the SNACC organization. - Prof. Rob Spencer of MIT Held annually the organizers look for it to - Prof. Maurice Gleeson of Dublin be a way to bring organizations, clans and - And Susan Millar of the NY Genealogical groups together to share best practices, & Biographical Society ideas and practises and benefit from their They will present a half dozen case shared goals and experiences. This year with studies exploring the different ethnic roots nearly all heritage programming cancelled of real Scottish-Americans, tracing their SNACC hopes to make the weekend a key respective DNA signatures back to their focus of celebrating the Scottish North Pictish, Gaelic, Saxon and Norse roots. American community’s heritage, culture The day will conclude with well-known Rt Hon. Henry Macleish will then introduce open to the world - which will be followed and most of all our love of Scotland. Scottish professional genealogist Dr. Bruce the second panel which will explore: by film clips of leading sites in Scotland How can we ensure the ongoing Durie, who will continue the conversation - Scotland influence on North America, to and a panel discussion. bonds of Scottish NA friendship- on how DNA research can and does be followed by a panel discussion. “I really wish we were able to welcome The relevance of the Scottish complement traditional genealogy, and everyone to New York for the 2020 Scottish identity in a globalised world about how to use all the new online data The afternoon will then explore where we sources, including Scotland’s People, to are today in this time of Covid, the new Our NA Community Conference - but just The American-Scottish Foundation is leading facilitate genealogical research. virtual presence-The new normal for the Scottish because we cannot meet in person does on the planning of this year’s conference NA community exploring in three panels: not mean SNACC important messaging - ASF had hoped to welcome guests to Gather virtually and share ideas - Impact on Clans, Highland Games, and the opportunity for us to gather New York, but that is not to be, instead and hear news organ. and the way forward - new virtually and share ideas and hear news the weekend will be virtual, being divided The schedule on Saturday morning begins opportunity within the challenges and move ideas and plan for this new into morning and afternoon sessions. The with Joni Smith, Scottish Affairs Councellor - Cultural Impact of Scotland on NA - normal going forward. And do hope you committee have been taking up various to North America, bringing greetings and will join us and lend your voice to the elements of the programming and John Music and the Arts in the New Normal sharing thoughts on where we are today. conversation, share your ideas.” noted Bellassai, President, COSCA noted how - Impact of Scotland on NA - Scottish Lord Charles Bruce will then lead on Camilla Hellman, President, American- Friday afternoon opens with Exploring what Studies - on line engagement the first panel discussion:The Enduring Scottish Foundation. connects us to our common Scottish heritage. On Sunday SNACC looks to Scotland Resonance of the Declaration of Arbroath: Reservation line now open: $45 for As Mr Bellassai explained: “Andrew - Lord Bruce will then discuss this with with the Lord Lyon bringing news for weekend access, or $20 per sessions. Morrison, Viscount Dunrossil, will deliver panelists the Lyon Court Lord Thurso, Chairman, For further details of the Scottish NA opening remarks about the nature of - Prof. Donna Heddle VisitScotland, will then speak to looking Community Conference: clanship in the modern age.” - And Graham Mackenzie forward to 2021 virtual Scotland-Scotland https://scottishleadershipconference.com HOW CAN WE ENSURE 2020 THE ONGOING BONDS OF Scottish SCOTTISH NORTH AMERICAN FRIENDSHIP? THE RELEVANCE OF SCOTTISH IDENTITY North American IN A GLOBALIZED WORLD HIGHLIGHTS OF THE CONFERENCE INCLUDE: Community FRIDAY, DECEMBER 4, 2020 Keynote - Clans • Families • Our Names • Our Heritage Conference Andrew Morrison, Viscount Dunrossil December 4-6 SATURDAY, DECEMBER 5, 2020 Greetings from Scotland Presented Online Joni Smith, Scottish Gov't Counsellor for North America from New York City The Enduring Resonance of the Declaration of Arbroath Lord Charles Bruce by the American-Scottish Foundation Scotland’s Influence on North America Rt. Hon. Henry McLeish, Former First Minister of Scotland Sunday, December 6, 2020 News From the Lyon Court Rev. Dr. Joseph Morrow, Lord Lyon King of Arms To Learn More & Register: www.scottishleadershipconference.com

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We rounded up a group of people and we ended up with three cameras and a drone. So, it very quickly turned into something much bigger, and that’s how it all started. We then recorded some stuff over a period of several weekends in Scotland with the crew and then we took it to Starz and Sony and said we would really love to make this into a show, and they agreed. So, we shot more in Scotland in August 2019. And in the meantime, during the lockdown, Sam and I both wanted to write a book about our experiences, particularly our experiences with the first time we shot in 2019. All the people we met, all the mad things we did and all the of the lack of preparation, the spontaneity and fun. And also talk about our careers and our personal life and weave that into a story for people and hopefully they’ll enjoy it in the book.

You have a real love of Scottish history and Clanlands is certainly testament to that. How important do you feel it is to retell the story of Scotland?

GM: I think it’s very important. I think from history we learn an enormous amount and can apply it to our lives today. Scotland has always fascinated me, perhaps more than any other because it’s my country. But also, I think the traditional view of Scotland, which is, I think somewhat romanticised and has been shaped in the sort of latter half of the 19th century into that view of Scotland. That’s a bit ‘shortbread tin’, all these sorts Clanlands of colourful tartan clad figures running around the hills having a marvelous time. Also, the tragedy of Scotland, the tragedy of what happened to the Highlands post Culloden. I think the complexities with Graham McTavish of that story are much more interesting Photo: ©Dave Foster Photography. than the slightly airbrushed, romanticised version of it. And that was definitely something that both Sam and I were really From their faithful camper van stars of Outlander Graham McTavish and Sam Heughan keen to explore, both in the TV show, but recently went on a road trip with a difference, the two Scotsmen explored a land of raw beauty, even more so in the book, because we’re really able to dig quite deep into that. poetry, feuding, music, history, and warfare. This month Graham takes time to speak to the Scottish Banner on his love of Scotland, history and even Sam Heughan. You began writing as a teenager, how exciting is it for you to not Graham you and Sam Heughan are GM: It kind of started a long time ago. all over Scotland, filming and talking about only be releasing a book, but launching the book Clanlands this I became very interested in Scottish history. their history. In those days, the idea was one about Scotland itself? month. This concept was originally I’ve always been interested, obviously, but I that we could try and direct sell DVD’s to to be a podcast, then became a TV became particularly interested in the early 90s. people who were living abroad that had GM: It’s absolutely a dream come true. show called Men in Kilts and now So, in 1990, I wrote a treatment for an idea an interest in their Scottish heritage, but I wrote three adventure novels when is also a book. Can you tell us a bit called Clanlands, which was basically nobody was interested in working with us. I was a teenager between the ages of 11 about the journey of the project? focusing on the individual clans and going Then cut to Outlander and what and 14 with wonderful titles. The Island Outlander opened up for not just me of Death, that was my first book and and Sam, but for Scotland in terms of I wonder what that was about? connecting with the world in a new way. And then another one is called There was a huge interest again in Scotland. Snow Track, which was set in the I think tourism in Scotland has gone up Antarctic between the Russians by 70 percent since Outlander began, so and the Americans. That was when it’s had a huge effect. I had always been I was 12 or 13 or something. interested in Scottish history and talked And then The Inca Guns that were set about this with Sam, and then he rang me in the Amazon and all of them involved while I was in New Zealand. I was in the the same characters, the main character kitchen and he rang and said, “Hey, mate. was called Martin Miller. I loved action You know what you were talking about adventure novels and I was a huge fan maybe doing some kind of documentary of Alistair MacLean and Willard Price. about Scotland. I think we should do that, Those were the books that were really we should do that together.” I thought great taking a huge hold on me when I was and he mentioned we should do a podcast, that age. I wanted to be a writer, that and I didn’t really know what a podcast was. was my goal. And I used to write comic He thought we could just go to a pub sketches with my best friend, and we and just talk and record it, and then about a would perform them, only because we week after that he suggested we film it with didn’t trust anybody else to do it. GoPro’s, I thought how would that work but And it was through a series of accidents, Photo courtesy of Starz. then a few days later he said we should get really, that the drama teacher at my school, an actual film crew, and so we did. after several attempts to get me to be in

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the play, finally asked me to be in one And as well, even with Men in Kilts, where an actor had fallen ill. And it was we had a three week shoot to do. only three days before the performance And again, I would have been busy with and he said, “Would you do it?” my show, and Sam with his. So, for us, And to this day, I have no idea why I 2020 so far has been the year when we’ve did, but I did. And I learnt all the lines. been able to write a book and make our It was a big part of a restoration comedy own TV show. So that’s been incredible. and we did the performance and people laughed in all the right places and then You and Sam both have an obviously they clapped at the end. Actually, in genuine friendship and a great love fairness, with the acting, I thank my of Scotland. How has this natural mother really because I possibly would connection that you both have helped have left it at that. I would possibly with both the filming ofMen in Kilts have never done it again. But the local and the writing of Clanlands? amateur dramatics company put a little flyer through the door, and they were GM: It’s funny I’ve got to know Sam looking for young actors because they much better since I finishedOutlander , didn’t have many young people. It was a compared to when we were actually local church hall and I remember looking shooting it. That’s partly because it was at it, and I can picture it now, it was just a just the way the schedules were when we tiny bit of folded paper. I looked were filming, Sam was in almost every day at it and I said to my mother, “Do you and I wasn’t. We would see each other on think I should go along and do that? set and go out for dinner of course but our Would it be interesting?” And she said, real friendship developed after Outlander. “Yes, yes, I think you should!” And I We would meet up with each other, just did, and then that really did lead to me the two of us, or sometimes with Duncan becoming more and more interested Lacroix or Caitríona for dinner. And in and eventually taking it up as a job. the case of Duncan, we’d end up going But for me to have this book now coming on holiday together. What’s interesting out, this is really special for me. I can and what I kind of identified, and I think absolutely assure you that when I get Sam agrees as well, is that we complement Photo: ©Dave Foster Photography. a copy of this book in my hands, I will each other very well. Sam has enormous completely be that 11 year old boy again. enthusiasm and enormous energy, I also have enormous enthusiasm and a lot Your character Dougal MacKenzie played a great gift to have that kind of character You have said our coronavirus of energy. He is more reckless than I am, in the first two seasons ofOutlander . To that they wrote, and it was a great pleasure world helped you and Sam get this and that heightens my caution in certain date Dougal remains one of the series playing him. book out, can you tell us more? situations, which sets up a very interesting most fierce and iconic characters of the dynamic in terms of a book or a TV show. franchise. Can you remind us how much Outside of your screen characters, both GM: I was doing a film in Prague and If we were both exactly the same, it just you enjoyed playing him and how playing you and Sam as people, have become went back to New Zealand to see my kids wouldn’t be that interesting. He brings me such a role has kept your connection really great ambassadors of Scotland. and I was due to fly back to Prague after out of my kind of reluctant, sort of slightly with Outlander going still today? You champion what the country has five days and then all of this madness grumpy view, of certain things and I help to offer and are just so passionate descended. And so, I had to stay in New to basically educate him! GM: I first heard about this role while I about Scotland it really is infectious, Zealand to ride out the lockdown. I was The other thing is Sam is a very was doing The Hobbit, I was in my trailer how does that make you feel? also due to start on another TV show about easygoing person and we both love in New Zealand in my dwarf makeup that time for Netflix and that was pushed meeting people. We both loved the idea of and costume. My manager rang me and GM: Well thank you, I hope that and also Sam was due to start Outlander having this as an unscripted experience. said, “Starz are doing a show and it’s comes across. I feel very strongly in May and that was pushed. So, suddenly So, the conversations that we have set in the Scottish Highlands. It’s based about bringing people to Scotland we had this really big block of time from in the TV show and the book were all on a series of books and it’s set in the and showing them what the country March to June, and all we did was write spontaneous in the moment with these real 18th century. Is that something you’d be has to offer, not just historically, but this book. We would speak at least twice a people, real situations where these things interested in?” And I said, “Yes, I would!” in terms of its contemporary life-the week and we would constantly be editing unfolded in real time. So, there was a real And so, I did, and they cast me. None of great food, the wonderful tradition, the each other’s documents and sending excitement in that which I think comes us had any idea really. I read the book as people, and the landscape. There’s so thoughts and all the rest of it. We would through in the book and in the show. all of us had to read the book, but none of much and that’s what we try and talk have these big long Zoom conversations, I just can’t imagine doing this with us had heard of the books at that point. about in the book and the TV show. I had never used Zoom before, and anybody else. It required a very particular And so, we were coming to it completely cold. We try and cover all of that and as suddenly I was using it all the time. If we combination of things for it to work As the filming progressed, especially in somebody who prides himself on knowing hadn’t been in that situation, Sam would and touch wood, I think it has worked. the first season of a show like that, you’re a fair bit about all of these things, I was have been shooting Outlander and I And honestly, I wouldn’t have been able very much in a bubble. We knew the amazed at how much I learned while we would have been shooting my show. to say for sure that that would have fanbase for the books was out there, but were doing all this, doing the research, It’s very unlikely that we would have been been the case beforehand. But in the they might have hated the show and you working on the book and filming. Hearing able to publish this book, certainly in the actual doing it, it became clear very feel that responsibility. But while you’re just wonderful stories from traditional time that we have managed to do it. quickly that we have a very natural way in the bubble, it’s actually quite a good Scottish storytellers, from clan chiefs, from of bantering with each other that is place to be because you are only really other historians, just such fabulously rich not forced. So, yeah, it’s a lot of fun. guided by your own feelings and ideas. conversations with people. For example, Obviously, we work with the director we were lucky enough to capture a very How special was it for you to have and writers but as an actor, it gives you a polite argument about the location of Outlander author Diana Gabaldon certain amount of freedom. I loved how Rob Roy’s grave between the MacLaren’s write the foreword to Clanlands? complicated he was as a character, that and the MacGregor’s or a great chat with he was the kind of man that you could a Macleod and a MacDonald on the Isle GM: Huge, it’s incredibly lovely and it’s have people cheering on at one moment of Skye. People can remember the dark a lovely foreword as well. The wonderful and then wishing dead the next moment. stuff that went on between ancestors, thing about Diana is that she is really The way he lived his life, he had very good just breathtaking violence that lasted game for anything and is a very open and qualities but also some bad flaws. For me, sometimes well over 100 years. And that’s engaged individual. When Sam said he he’s been an incredible influence on me. one of the things that really drove into was thinking of asking Diana if she’d like I can’t tell you the number of us, these people held grudges, they to do the foreword, I knew that she would people who come up to me every day really did. That’s why I love all this stuff agree because she’s that kind of person. and ask me about Dougal Mackenzie about Scotland, I love those characters It’s great for us and I think the fans will and take photographs with me. who are larger than life. love it, and she likes the book. Because And for this book Clanlands and the Clanlands is out in November, for of course you worry about what if she show Men in Kilts, I owe a great deal to details see: www.clanlandsbook.com Photo: ©Dave Foster Photography. hates it? But she loved it and it is really that Scotsman he has been a great friend Men in Kilts is scheduled to be wonderful she became part of this book. and continues to be so. For any actor it is released in 2021 on Starz.

The Scottish Banner • November 2020 • Page 13 THE SCOTTISH BANNER THIS MONTH IN SCOTTISH HISTORY Names & Places In The News From Today And The Past

1 - Bank of Scotland founded by an Act 9 - Dorothy Dunnett, the cult Scottish 26 - Death of John McAdam, inventor of the Scottish Parliament. 1695 novelist, died. The writer of intricate of “macadamisation” road surface with a and meticulously researched historical smooth hard surface with a camber to ensure - Scotland made a serious bid to enter the 1 novels, she attracted a devoted following rainwater rapidly drained away. 1836 lucrative English sea-trading market. The Company with her multi-volume sagas. 2001 of Scotland Trading to Africa and the Indies issued a subscription list to stockholders in 10 - Journalist Henry M Stanley found the London. Later known as The Darien Company, missing Scottish missionary David Livingstone £300,000 sterling was quickly raised, but London with the classic “Dr Livingstone, I presume” 1871 merchants saw it as a threat to their own East 11 - Armistice Day, marking the end of India Company. They put pressure on the King, hostilities in World War I. The guns were finally 17- Tam the Gun - the soldier who famously and the English subscriptions were withdrawn at silenced on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the behest of their government. 1695 fired Edinburgh Castle’s One o’Clock Gun the 11th month. Though Scots made up only for more than 25 years died. Staff Sergeant 2 - Tom Johnston, one of Scotland’s best known 10% of the UK population at the time, a total Thomas McKay, 60, lost a year-long Secretaries of State, born in Kirkintilloch. 1881 of 147,609 Scottish people were killed during battle against bowel cancer. 2005 the war, a fifth of Britain’s total dead.1918 3 - Queen Elizabeth officially opened 17 - David Livingstone reached Victoria Falls 26 - Elsie Inglis, the Scottish nursing pioneer - Today is Martinmas, Scottish Quarter Day. an underwater pipeline to bring the 11 in Africa. Livingstone was born at Blantyre, and suffragette, died. Inglis is perhaps best The feast of St Martin of Tours was traditionally first North Sea oil ashore.1975 south of Glasgow and went on a mission to remembered for her role in the First World War, the day for slaughtering livestock and salting reach new peoples in the interior of Africa 3 - The Scottish expedition to Darien landed where, convinced that women could play an it for preservation through the winter. and introduce them to Christianity. at ‘New Caledonia’. The expedition left Leith on 1855 active role in the conflict, she led volunteer the 12th July 1698, heading for the isthmus of 12 - St Machar Day, patron saint of Aberdeen. 18 - Sir David Wilkie who later became medical units of women who served in France Panama. The enterprise began in 1695 when a well-known painter of historical and and in Serbia, where Inglis herself was taken the Scottish Parliament passed an Act for the religious works as well as portraits, was prisoner. Winston Churchill wrote that Inglis establishment of the ‘Company of Scotland born near Pitlessie, Fife. 1785 and her nurses “would shine in history”. 1917 Trading to Africa and the Indies’. 1698 18 - Robin Hall, the Scottish folk singer 27 - The greatest storm on record 4 - Birth of King William III. 1650 and musician, died. Hall achieved national hit Britain with the loss of 8,000 fame in the sixties along with fellow Scot, people in 24 hours. 1703 Jimmie Macgregor, on the BBC TV show, 27 - The first deaths from an E.coli outbreak Tonight. Hits included The Mingulay Boat in Lanarkshire were reported. The outbreak Song and schoolboy favourite, Ye Cannae was subsequently traced back to a butcher’s Shove Yer Grannie Aff a Bus. 1998 shop in the town of Wishaw, and by early 12 - Edinburgh University first admitted 19 - King Charles I born. 1600 1997 twenty people, mostly senior citizens, women to the study of medicine. Sophia Jex- had died, making this the world’s worst Blake and her friend Edith Pechy were the first to 20 James Bruce, 8th Lord Elgin, the Scottish outbreak of E.coli poisoning. 1996 Liberal statesman and diplomat, died. During attend the prestigious medical school. Though 28 - Battle of Rullion Green on the Pentland Jex-Blake passed her exams, she was not allowed his career he served as Governor-General Hills, south-west of Edinburgh, in which - Opening of the original Mitchell Library, to graduate as regulations prevented women of Canada, 1847-54, and India, 1862-63 5 the King’s army led by Sir Tam Dalyell Glasgow, now the largest public reference library from actually serving on the wards. 1869 and was special envoy to China and Japan. defeated the Covenanters. in Europe and is home to one of the world’s finest During a visit to China he burnt down the 1666 13 - King Malcolm III (Canmore), last of collections of Robert Burns materials. 1877 emperor’s famous Summer Palace in Beijing, 28 - W.Oliver Brown, the candidate for the the Celtic kings was killed at the Battle of destroying thousands of priceless works of fledgling National Party of Scotland (NPS), Alnwick. Succeeded by Donald III. 5 - The Commercial Bar in Fraserburgh 1093 art, in order to intimidate the emperor and polled 4,818 votes in the Renfrew East By- receives a direct hit from a German 13 -The birth of Robert Louis Stevenson, force him to sign an unratified treaty.1863 Election. In doing this he became the first NPS bomb, killing over 30. 1941 author and poet, in Edinburgh’s New Town. 21 - King James VII married candidate to save his election deposit. The His books included Treasure Island and Mary of Modena. 1673 National Party of Scotland amalgamated with The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. the Scottish Party in April 1934 to form the He died in Samoa, aged 44. 1850 22 - Birth of Mary of Guise, the French modern Scottish National Party/SNP. 1930 Queen Consort of James V. She was regent 14 - Speed limit for horseless carriages was raised of Scotland during the minority reign of her 29 - Margaret Tudor, daughter of Henry from 4mph (2mph in towns) to 14mph. 1896 daughter, Mary, Queen of Scots. 1515 VII of England was born. She later married King James IV of Scotland in the “Union 22 - Jack McConnell elected First of the Thistle and the Rose”. It was due Minister of Scotland, succeeding Henry to her bloodline that King James VI of McLeish who had resigned. 2001 Scotland was able to inherit the crown of England in 1603, after the death of his 6 - Celtic Football Club formally constituted 23 - Historical novelist Nigel Tranter born in Calton, Glasgow, to alleviate poverty in Glasgow. He was the most prolific Scottish cousin, Queen Elizabeth I. 1489 in Glasgow’s East End parishes. The first writer of all time, writing mainly factual 29 - Royal Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons Celtic Park was established on a vacant and fictional books related to Scottish granted its charter by King James VI. 1599 lot next to St Mary’s Church. 1887 history and was also a columnist for many years for the Scottish Banner. 1909 29 - Thomas Edison demonstrated the 7 - Writer and World War Two phonograph publicly for the first time.1877 - David II (aged 7) crowned at Scone. garrison commander Eric Linklater 15 - Statue to Greyfriar’s Bobby, who stayed by his 24 1331 30 - St Andrew’s Day (or in Scottish master’s grave for 14 years was unveiled. 1873 died in Orkney. 1974 24 -The Scots army defeated at the Rout of Gaelic ‘Là Naomh Anndrais’) – celebrate the patron saint of Scotland. St Andrew, 8 - Scholar and philosopher John Duns Scotus 15 - The Stone of Destiny was finally returned to Solway Moss. King James V had sent a huge force of 10,000 men into England which was defeated died. His dry subtleties led to the word “Duns” or Scotland. Legend has it that the stone is a relic from according to Christianity’s teachings, by an English force under the command of Sir “dunce” meaning dull and incapable of learning. the Holy Land and once belonged to the biblical was one of Jesus Christ’s apostles, the Thomas Wharton. James died shortly afterward, Beatified by Pope John Paul II in 1993.1308 Jacob. From an early date the kings of Scotland twelve followers chosen by him. were inaugurated sitting on a royal chair with the and was succeeded to the throne by his baby 9 - In Edinburgh, Sir James Young Simpson stone in its base. In 1296 Edward I removed the daughter, Mary, Queen of Scots. 1542 delivered Wilhelmina Carstairs while chloroform stone and installed it at Westminster Abbey. 24 - The high court in Glasgow imposes a was administered to the mother, the first child It remained there until it was kidnapped by Scottish minimum sentence of 27 years for Al Ali Mohmed to be born with the aid of anaesthesia. nationalist students in 1951. They managed 1847 Al Megrahi, the Libyan national convicted of to hide the stone in Scotland for four months bombing Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie. until it was found and returned to Westminster. He was released on compassionate grounds It was moved from there to Edinburgh Castle by the Scottish Government on 20 August 2009 in 1996 amid much celebration. 1996 and died on 20 May 2012 in Libya. 2003 - Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show opened 16 25 - General Tam Dalyell raises a regiment in the East End Exhibition Buildings, to suppress Covenanters which later Duke Street, Glasgow. 1891 became the Royal Scots Greys. 1681 30 - Stone of Destiny, stolen from Scone by James Macpherson, the famous fiddling King Edward I of England in 1296, returned 16 25 - Helen Duncan the last person to freebooter, was hanged at Banff. The town to Scotland and installed in Edinburgh be jailed in the UK under the British clock was said to have been advanced to Castle. The stone had previously been Witchcraft Act of 1735 was born. 1897 9 -The Royal Yacht Britannia left the forestall a messenger carrying a reprieve for taken from Westminster Abbey in London Clydebank shipyards to begin her speed trials. his hanging. Legend has it that before the 25 - Steel magnate and philanthropist Andrew by university students in 1951. 1996 Built by John Brown’s shipbuilders, she was notorious outlaw musician was hanged for Carnegie born in Dunfermline. Carnegie became 30 - World’s first international football (soccer) famously luxurious and entertained countless sheep and cattle stealing he treated the crowd a powerful businessman and a leading force in match, Scotland V England at West of Scotland dignitaries in opulent style. The Britannia to one of his own compositions, Macpherson’s the American steel industry. Carnegie believed Cricket Ground. Result was 0-0. 1872 carried the royal family on more than 1000 Rant, and then broke the fiddle over his that the wealthy had an obligation to give back visits to over 600 countries. Today she is knee. When Burns heard of the tale he wrote to society, so he donated much of his fortune 30 - HMS Vanguard, Britain’s biggest and last moored at Ocean Point, Edinburgh. 1953 the song Macpherson’s Farewell. 1700 to causes like education and peace. 1835 battleship, was launched at Clydebank. 1944

Page 14 • The Scottish Banner • November 2020 THE SCOTTISH BANNER Clan Strachan comes home after 705 years Purchase of property in ancestral homelands marks place for heritage centre and gathering space.

lan Strachan is proud to announce The Clan leadership wanted a place to Clan Commander and resident in the about those that came before us with their the purchase of the Feughside call home for all its members around the district of Strachan. Under Mr. Strachan’s rich culture and beautiful history. Inn in the Village of Strachan. world and this acquisition accomplishes leadership, the Clan was able to More importantly though, this is about the This achievement was part of a that goal. “I am proud to announce that successfully negotiate and fundraise for future and the generations to come,” said Cgrassroots effort that marks one of the very for the first time in 705 years, the Clan the acquisition of this property. “I would Steve Strachan of Englewood, Colorado, first times that a clan has been able to Strachan owns property in the district very much like to thank the donors and another leader of the fundraising effort. re-acquire property in their ancestral homeland. of Strachan,” said Mr. Rob Strachan, volunteers from around the world that “This endeavour is years in the making made this a reality,” he added. and will have an impact for generations The funds were raised by donations to come,” said Dennis Strawhun of from contributors in not just Scotland but Carlsbad, California who is Co-Founder worldwide. Donors outside of the United and Convener of the Clan Strachan Society. Kingdom included Australia, Canada and “I am especially proud of the work that the United States. The fundraising efforts the Clan is doing to bring people together were initiated several months ago, largely from literally all over the world, especially through social media and were prolific in these turbulent times,” Strawhun added. despite the global pandemic. Fundraising The Clan Strachan Scottish Heritage will continue to help finance renovations Society, Inc was founded as a public and the operations moving forward. In the benefit non-profit corporation in 2005. short-term, the Clan intends to operate the The Society is an international organisation property as a Bed & Breakfast and to create open to all those interested in the heritage, a centre for heritage, whilst considering culture and history of Scotland. The Clan other heritage options. Strachan Charitable Trust is an authorised charity since 2014, and regulated in Rich culture and beautiful history accordance with the Office of the Scottish “This successful initiative will help Charity Regulator (OSCR). strengthen our Clan ties and provide a For more information on the Clan Strachan, place for more Clan activities,” said Martin please visit: www.clanstrachan.org Strahan of Queensland, Australia, who was a key driver in the fundraising effort. “We are proud of everyone who made this historic effort successful, as it truly was a team effort to provide a place, in a beautiful setting, for our Clan members to visit and learn,” Strahan continued. “This initiative is certainly about honouring our past, and learning more Tartan of the Month

Here’s tae us! Tartan

The Scottish Banner is pleased to be of the country’s most recognisable symbols offering the Tartan of the Month series and dates from 1222. The National Flag highlighting a variety of different, of Scotland - the Saltire – is, according to unique and colourful tartans from legend, even older. It originated in 832AD in a around the world which are registered battle fought in today’s East Lothian when an army of Picts and Scots became cornered by with the Scottish Register of Tartans a superior force of Angles and Saxons. in Edinburgh. The Scottish Register of Prayers for deliverance, led by their Tartans was established by an act of the leader King Angus, were answered by an Scottish Parliament in November 2008 inspirational diagonal cross of white cloud in and promotes and preserves information a clear blue sky — the cross of St. Andrew. about historic and contemporary tartans The Picts and Scots won the day; St. from Scotland and throughout the world. Andrew subsequently became Scotland’s Text and image use is courtesy of the patron saint and that cloud became the Scottish Register of Tartans (SRT). national flag — the Saltire. When printed or worn on the bias, the white cross of 30 threads he “Here’s tae us!” tartan (SRT — for St. Andrew’s Day on 30th November – reference: 12885) celebrates Scotland, becomes the Saltire. This tartan was designed bringing two ancient banners by Brian Wilton and registered in July, 2020. together in the design. The Royal Wishing all our readers a Happy St TBanner of Scotland or Lion Rampant, is one Andrew’s Day on November 30th!

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IN SCOTLAND TODAY

and its new home have reanimated the The station, which will be managed by village’s pride in its heritage, created ScotRail, is also the largest electric vehicle a buzzing new community hub, and charging location in north east Scotland, with produced a sustainable cultural landmark 24 of the 168 spaces at the new transport hub for generations of visitors to enjoy.” fitted with charging points. Councillor Sandra Macdonald, said: “The New £15 million whisky distillery reopening of Kintore station has been a long- for Stirling standing aspiration of the local community and the wider region. Kintore station is a welcome addition to the existing eight rail facilities across the north east. For those local to the area, it is an opportunity for convenient rail travel, better connectivity for the community and a sustainable option for local travel to and from Aberdeen. As part of the Aberdeen to Inverness improvement project, it brings benefits to the wider area, enhancing our local rail service and increasing rail Proposals for a new £15 million whisky capacity. The local community have been distillery near Stirling have been submitted very keen to be involved right the way for planning approval. The application through the project. The historic benches and by Wolfcraig Distillery lays out plans for former station sign are fitting touches for the a new whisky experience near Stirling new station and it has been through working that will incorporate the distillery, an with the community that these hidden interactive, education-focused family treasures were discovered and restored.” 2020 World Porridge visitor attraction, private tasting room and Reopening Kintore has been made 180-cover bistro restaurant and bar. possible by double-tracking the line Wolfgraig director Michael Lunn said: between Aberdeen and Inverurie, delivered Making Championship “Our distillery will encourage visitors and as part of the Aberdeen-Inverness tourists to spend more time in and around Improvement Project. The original Kintore The 27th World Porridge Making In a unique edition of the prize and Stirling, helping to boost both the local station opened in 1854 but closed in 1964 Championship again occurred in October in recognition of the unprecedented and national economies. In addition to as part of the Beeching cuts. Its history has in the Scottish highland village of challenges that all museums face this producing a premium Highland single been incorporated into the new facility with Carrbridge. This year a speciality online year, five winning museums have been malt, we want to offer a state-of-the-art features from the previous station, including competition was presented where the named. They will equally share the immersive experience for people of all heritage benches and salvaged signs. best entrants will be dubbed “Virtual £200,000 award, a 40% rise over previous ages and knowledge levels. Our research Spurtler 2020”, won by Chris Young of years. This year’s winning museums indicates the distillery could attract Recovery and renewal on the Clyde Perthshire. The competition is limited to are: Aberdeen Art Gallery (Aberdeen, around 90,000 visitors in its first year given 30 competitors in the senior event and up Scotland); Gairloch Museum (Gairloch, its proximity to Glasgow and Edinburgh.” to 8 contestants in the junior event. Scotland); Science Museum (London, The building will maximise its location, Up to a dozen countries are represented England); South London Gallery (London, showcasing a stunning vista across to the and competition is fierce to be accepted England); Towner Eastbourne (Eastbourne, iconic Wallace Monument and Stirling as a contestant. All competitors must England). They are awarded based on their Castle. It will also harness the latest produce a ‘traditional’ and ‘speciality’ dish. achievements in 2019 – 20. technologies to ensure that sustainability Traditional porridge is made from oatmeal Dr Karen Buchanan, Curator of Gairloch is at its core. The distillery will have the (not rolled oats or oatflakes), water and Museum commented: “The recognition capacity to produce up to 1.5 million salt. No other ingredients are allowed. that comes with this award brings our litres of spirit per year and will focus on At the same time as cooking their small, independent museum to the national producing premium Wolfcraig Highland The mission to make the area around the traditional porridge, competitors cook stage. With the prize money, we will be Single Malt Scotch Whisky in addition to River Clyde an engine of sustainable and their speciality dish. This too must use able to invest in our planned outdoor a range of other associated spirits. The inclusive growth and kick-start its economic oatmeal, but beyond that ‘anything goes’. museum space and procure expertise and distillery’s interactive visitor centre will recovery has been bolstered by the launch of According to folklore back in the day, equipment to redesign our events and showcase tales of Scotland’s national drink, a new fund. The £10 million Clyde Mission many Scottish kitchens had a ”dresser”. outreach programme for a sustainable, as well as bringing Stirling’s colourful past Fund is now open to applications for capital Some of these dressers – allegedly – had a digital future. We rely on tourism to our to life. In addition to tours, plans are also funding projects that will create green jobs “porridge drawer” and this drawer would small community. Our Art Fund Museum being made to offer a range of different and benefit communities along the Clyde. be lined and cleaned out at the start of of the Year status will boost visitor numbers experiences and masterclasses. Pending It will support economic and infrastructure the week. The family porridge would then in 2021, when our must-see event will be an planning approval, construction is expected developments, and improvements to be made for the whole week and poured exhibition of the art of Alison Dunlop RSW, to begin in spring 2021 with the distillery buildings, facilities and the environment. into the drawer to set and cool. The family celebrating the rugged beauty of the Shiants due to open in summer 2022. The site will The fund will also help capitalise on would be given slices of cold porridge for – the enchanted isles of the Minch.” employ around 50 full-time workers. the unique opportunities and competitive various meals throughout the week with The judges, Jago Cooper (Curator of the advantage of the river and immediate the process starting again on the Monday. Americas, The British Museum), Dame Liz Rail services returning to Kintore surrounding area. Forgan (Trustee, Art Fund), Ryan Gander after almost 60 years Economy Secretary Fiona Hyslop Former Scottish nuclear bunker (artist), Melanie Keen (Director, The said: “The river has great potential with named museum of the year Wellcome Collection) and Jenny Waldman its existing company and skills base and (Director, Art Fund), reflected: “The story world-class universities on its doorstep. of the rebirth of this truly special museum, Despite these assets, areas around the nestled on the remote north-westerly coast river continue to suffer disproportionately of Scotland, captivated the judges; a tale from deprivation and have been hit hard of people-power, determination, and local by the pandemic. The Clyde Mission pride. The museum’s move in 2019 to a Fund will support projects that will create new home – not a grand new build but a jobs, benefit places and communities repurposed nuclear bunker – transformed and support Scotland’s environmental a village eyesore into an important visitor The Aberdeenshire town of Kintore has seen ambitions as we work with our partners to attraction. It was the culmination of the return of rail services after almost 60 years build a stronger, fairer, greener Clydeside.” Gairloch Museum, a former Cold War anti- an 8 year, £2.4 million redevelopment absence. Funded by Transport Scotland, The Scottish Government has pledged aircraft centre on Scotland’s north-west project made possible by more than 120 Aberdeenshire Council and Nestrans, the £15 £35m for Mission Clyde, a bid to facilitate coast, has been announced as a winner volunteers. The redisplay of the museum’s million station was built by Network Rail and the economic recovery of the area from of Art Fund Museum of the Year 2020, the collection which encapsulates the history, has fully accessible, step-free access between the east end of Glasgow along the Clyde to most prestigious museum prize in the world. culture, beauty and character of Gairloch platforms via a footbridge with lifts. Greenock and Dunoon.

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St Andrews Castle. Photo: VisitScotland.

Dundee based writer Charlie Mill provided stories for the Scottish Banner for many years, touching on Scottish history, lifestyle and some of Scotland’s truly unique characters. We recently opened the vault of Charlie’s great work to share a collection of some of his favourites with readers today.

By: Charlie Mill Sculptured Stone Museum are cross slabs, cotland’s glorious legacy from bearing a mark freely absorbed into the bygone years has undoubtedly Pictish carving tradition as Paganism fell to been established through its Christianity. The locals will boastfully inform relationship with religion and the the many visitors of how one of the slabs is Sfunction of the Church. The country has associated with the legend of King Arthur. a trio of localised buildings of interest, all On the back of the tone you’ll.’ find under the custody of Historic Scotland a figure in robes flanked by four lions and all having religious attachments, and which is generally considered to represent all affording much differing visions as to the passing of Vanora, or Guinevere, Scotland’s culture. who was condemned by King Arthur to be ripped apart by wild beasts, though St Andrews experts on the subject claim it is actually With its blend of castle and cathedral, an illustration of Daniel in the Lion’s Den. the Fife town of St Andrews underlines Folk tales allege that remains of Vanora the political clout exercised by the were interred at Meigle and the cross slab church in medieval times, the end result placed on her grave. often finishing in a bloody encounter. The castle on the A91 road was the Scottish Declaration chief quarters of the bishops, and later of Independence archbishops, of St Andrews. Their way The third property owes its eminence in of life mirrored their standing as the Scotland’s history as the site where the country’s principal churchmen, but Scottish Declaration of Independence they always had to be alert in defending was drawn up before being signed on themselves and the property of the church. April 6th, 1320, by Scotland’s nobles. The historic Fife town had, underneath Although the Declaration of Arbroath it, a myriad of mines and tunnels intriguing has made the east-coast town’s Abbey patterns constructed during times of siege. renowned throughout the world, a visit Several tunnels around the castle were to the ruined structure uncovers a much initiated during the siege of 1546-47 by wider story. invaders outside the castle walls while, at the The Arbroath Abbey was a vital same time, the defenders began burrowing administrative station and the abbots a series of tunnels outwards in the hope of were vigorously employed in the heading off the threatening onslaughts. preparations leading up to the Wars of If anyone is bold enough to attempt entering Independence and beyond. The ruins, to closely constrained lines of tunnelling, they which were founded in 1178 by King will come across the spot where the frantic William the Lion, are claimed to be the defenders took the wrong turn in trying to most comprehensive of all the Tironensian break through to a mine shaft and literally houses to be found in Scotland. fell into a tunnel filled with enemy soldiers.

King Arthur connections A distinctly different experience at St Andrews can be found on the A94 road at Meigle in Tayside, to the south-east of Alyth, where can Christian rituals are caught in stunningly carved Pictish stones. Most likely dating from between the 8th and 10th centuries, the stones label the locality as one of the main sculptural centres Arbroath Abbey. Photo: VisitScotland. of Pictland. The majority of the stones in the

The Scottish Banner • November 2020 • Page 17 Welcome to our “Clansified” listing of THEScottish SCOTTISHClans, Societies and BANNER Clubs. If you would like to add your Clan please contact our office for full details. Our contacts are Calling the Clans located on page 2. If you are contacting your Clan be sure to tell them you saw them in the Scottish Banner and please support these great community organisations. Clan Donnachaidh Clan Cumming Society Clan Donnachaidh Clan Fraser Society Clan Baird Society Worldwide Society of New South Wales Inc., Membership is open to those descended of the Society of New South Australia from Baird, Barde, Bard, Beard, Beaird, Brd, United States of Australia Bayard, Bardt, Barth and Biard or varied WalesDunc anInc., Rob erAustraliatson Reid Invites all Frasers spellings of the name of Scottish origin. Duncan Robertson Reid People who bear any of the above names or names of any of the and Fraser septs In addition to the Society newsletter and the opportunity www.clancumming.us PeopleSepts of whothe Clan bear (see advertiany ofsement the fromabove CA namesUSA) are invite d to associate with fellow clansman members may [email protected] to join with us in our activities to promote Clan Donnachaidh, to join our clan society. query the Society geneologist. For information write: or“The other Children Sept of Duncan”names by of participating Clan Donnachaidh in the various activitie s All members receive a copy of our quarterly “Theconducted Children by Scottish of Duncan”Societies. are invited to Dr. Debra J. Baird, President For information & membership application, contact newsletter “Strawberry Leaves” 3491 County Road 3459, Haleyville, AL 35565 joinGordon in our Robertso activitiesn by participating in the Membership enquiries to Don Chitts 58/157 Marconi Rd. Bonnells Bay NSW 2264 Email: [email protected] c/o G. Allen Cummings Scottish Gatherings held in NSW. Ph: (03) 9754 5120 [email protected] Regional Directors for Australia PO Box 6888 For information and membership application, Website: http://clanfraseraustralia.org David and Patricia Benfell Ocean Isle Beach, NC 28469-6888 Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/ Email: [email protected] contact Gordon Robertson website: www.clanbairdsociety.com Pages/Clan-Fraser-Society-of-Australia/ 58/157 Marconi Rd. Bonnells Bay NSW 2264 482236358590288

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Membership invited to all who share the Sept names: Clan Galbraith Duncan, Robertson, Reid, etc. CLAN BELL UK: London & Southern Counties * Rannoch & Highlands Society Invites membership inquiries from persons named Bell (all Canada: Ontario * Western Canada Australia: New South Wales * Victoria * Queensland * Western Australia spellings), their descendants and friends. Various resources New Zealand: New Zealand Includes name variations such as available for genealogical research. Quarterly newsletter. Europe: Spain Tents hosted at major Scottish games nationwide. Africa: South Africa Galbreath, Culbreath, Gilbraith etc. USA: Arizona * Carolinas * Florida * Gulf Coast * Mid-Atlantic * New Website: www.ClanBell.org Mexico * Mid-West * Northeast * Northern California * Pacific Northwest * DNA testing project, members only Online membership: https://clanbell.org/membership.html Rocky Mountains * South * Southern California * Texas * Upper Mid-West

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Neil Macdonald or variations:- Edmiston/e, Edmondston, organization established to create kinship amongst its family State Commissioners members and promote interest in the Family of Bruce and NSW Mr John Currie Edmanson, Edmeston, Edmonson, its history. Membership is open to persons who qualify Qld Mr A. Neil Macdonald Edmundson, etc. Chieftain Sir Archibald by surname, by decent, or by recognized septs: Carlisle, SA Ms Therese McCutcheon Edmonstone Bt of Duntreath Carruthers, Crosby, Randolph and Stenhouse. Vic Mr Norman A Macdonald Contact: Mal Edmiston www.clangregor.com Membership inquiries should be directed to: WA Ms Pamela McDonald For membership contact Keith MacGregor Donald E. Bruce Polly A. (Bruce) Tilford, Secretary 3 Laguna Ave P.O Box 56, Redding Ridge, CT 06876    President 5561 Earl Young Road [email protected] Kirwan, Qld, 4817 [email protected]. 61 (0)7 4755 4370  1051 Eagle Ridge Trail Bloomington, IN 47408 There is no joy without Clan Donald Peter Lawrie, Secretary Stillwater, Minnesota 55082 www.familyofbruceinternational.orgCLAN DONALD QUEENSLAND [email protected] Clan6 The Esplanade,Gregor Broughty Society Ferry, Dundee Australasia DD5 2EL Scotland  All MacGregors and Septs of our Clan are invited to join one of the oldest Clan Societies Commissioner: Neil Macdonald in Scotland Est 1822. If you live in Australia or  Ph: 0412 090990 New Zealand, please contact our clan Email: [email protected] representative in Australia; Web: www.clandonaldqld.org Clan Gregor  Clan Donald ELIGIBILITY: Those with the name of Frank McGregor MacDonald Macdonald McDonald McDonell, Clan Gregor Society  Donald, OR of one of the Septs of Clan Society Donald, OR with a connection through family PO Box 14 lineage. Queensland NORTH HOBART TAS 7002  Elliot Clan Society, U.S.A. There is no joy without Clan Donald Commissioner: Neil Macdonald Email:Australasia [email protected] Bill Elliott-Clan President All MacGregors andWeb. Septs www.clangregor.com of our Clan are invited to join  Clan Cameron NSW Inc. Ph: 0412 090990 one of the oldest Clan Societies in Scotland Est 1822. If Email: [email protected] welcomes membership of all who are you live in Australia“Royal or New is Zealand,my Race please” contact our  clan representative in Australia; President: Alistair Cameron Web: www.clandonaldqld.org connected with this great border family. Frank McGregor - Clan Gregor Society  [email protected] ELIGIBILITY: Those with the name of MacDonald Direct inquires to: Jim Dougherty PO Box 14 Secretary: Terry Cameron Macdonald McDonald McDonell, Donald,  Treasurer/Membership Chair North Hobart TAS 7002 [email protected] OR of one of the Septs of Clan Donald, Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected]  OR with a connection through family lineage. Web. www.clangregor.com Website: www.elliotclan-usa.com www.clan-cameron.org.au There is no joy without Clan Donald “Royal is my Race”   Clan Donald, U.S.A., Inc.  Membership is open only to persons of  the blood of Macdonald, however spelled or of the blood of a recognized associate  family or is related by marriage or legal Clan Farquharson American Clan Clanadoption to either ofDonald these write for more  info and a complete Sept list. Association Australia Diane Carey-Schmitz Gregor Society U.S.A.1685 Casitas AvenueInc. Clan Chief: Captain A.A.C. Farquharson,  Pasadena, CA 91103, Membership inquiries Membership is open [email protected] to persons oft the blood MC of Invercauld Est 1909 welcomed from MacGregors   of Macdonald, however spelled or of the blood Membership inquiries are invited from descendants of all spellings and Septs  All Campbells or descendants of of a recognized associate family or is related of Farquharson and descendants of Sept family Gregor Grier MacAdams MacNish Magruder Campbells and members of Clan Septs by marriage or legal adoption to either of these names. Please contact the association by mail to: McGehee Gregory King Peter Fletcher are welcome to join the Society. Gregg Lecky Black and many others write for more info and a complete Sept list. The Secretary: Clan Farquharson For State Branches contact the Contacting our registrar, Jeanne P. Lehr William H. McDaniel Association Australia National Secretary Margaret Vallance PO Box 585 Springwood, NSW 2777 11 Ballas Crt. Email: [email protected] High Commissioner, CDUSA St. Louis, MO 63131-3038 or by Email to: [email protected] Phone: 314-432-2842, [email protected] www.clan-campbell.org.au [email protected] website: www.acgsus.org

CLAN DONALD in VICTORIA Clan Hamilton Proudly affiliated with Clan Donald Australia, Victorian Scottish Union and Scots of Victoria Coordinating Group. Represented at all major Highland gatherings in Victoria. Society CLAN DONALD VICTORIA Hamiltons and those of Hamilton descent President: Mr Norman A. Macdonald are cordially invited to join the society. Contact: [email protected] Formed in 1934, with membership from many MacDonald, McDonald and Inquiries to be sent to: Macdonald families living in Victoria. Membership available, with dance Sheri Lambert, Treasurer classes for Scottish Country Dance most Friday evenings in Gardenvale. P.O. Box 5399 CLAN MACDONALD YARRAVILLE Hon Chief: Mrs Christina Milne Wilson Vernon Hills, IL 60061 Contact: [email protected] visit our website: A hereditary clan society formed by the children of Norman Hume Macdonald and www.clanhamilton.org Johan McKenzie Macdonald (nee Munro) who departed Scotland in 1854.

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Clan Hay Clan MacLeod Clan Macpherson Societies of Australia Association April Rich The OFFICIAL Clan MacFarlane Society Membership is open to MacLeods and Septs (of any variant spelling), Clan Macpherson welcomes enquiries from Macphersons and members of our Associated families. 28 Oxbow Drive Founded 1911 - Glasgow & London For information about local activities visit our web site www.clan-macpherson.org/branches and descendants. Recognised Septs: Willimantic, CT 06226 Re-established- 1973 Grandfather Mountain, NC Africa. Derek Macpherson Australia. John L Macpherson Australian. Loch Sloy! We welcome all descendants of Askey MacAndie MacClure [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] phone +265 999 512 620 phone +61 409 122 141 Clan MacFarlane from around the world! Beaton MacAskill MacCorkill MacWilliam The American Branch of the First Family of Scotland welcomes Canada. Ed Smith England & Wales. William Macpherson Michael R. MacFarlane. FSA Scot - President Bethune MacAulay MacCrimmon Norie [email protected] [email protected] inquires from descendants of: Hay(s); Haye(s); Hayne(s); Hey(s); Brian J.W. MacFarlane - Vice President Caskie MacCabe MacGillechallum Norman phone +1 519 802 8821 phone +44 7877 363 507 Alderston; Armll;Ayer(s); Constable; Con(n); De La Haye; Delgatie; Richard G. Kilby, FSA Scot - Treasurer Harold MacCaig MacHaigh Tolmie Europe. Will Tulling New Zealand. Tony McPherson John K. Manchester - Secretary [email protected] [email protected] Delgatie; D’ Ay(e); Dellah’aY; Errol(l); Garrad; Garrow; Gifford; Lewis MacCaskey MacRaild Williamson phone +31 655 774 425 phone +64 274 587 813 Hawson; Haygood; Hayter; Hayward; Haywood; Haynie; Hayden; lnternatlonal Clan MacFarlane Society, lnc. l NSW, ACT & Qld - Peter Macleod 02 4397 3161 Scotland & Northern Ireland. Rory Macpherson USA. Robert T McPherson PO Box 398 Glenora, CA 91740 USA l [email protected] UnitedStates.Chairman@clan-macpherson. Hayfield; Hayne( s); Leask( e); Leith; Lester; MacGaradh; Peebles; Victoria & Tas - David Dickie 03 9337 4384 phone +44 7525 763 765 org phone +1 360 701 8133 [email protected] l Peeples; Peoples; Turriff; Tweeddale; Yester South Australia - Rachel Hopkins 0433 184 375 l The Clan Macpherson Museum is located in Newtonmore, Inverness Shire PH20 1DE, Western Australia - Ruth MacLeod 08 9364 6334 at the junction of the A86 and B9150, and is open from 1st April to 31st October. www.clanhay.com MACFARLANE.ORG l Email: [email protected] Ph + 44 1540 673 332. See http://www.clan-macpherson.org/museum/

The MacEanruigs, proud sons of Henry, invite you to join! Clan MacInnes The Clan MacRae Clan Henderson Society ClanInternational MacInnes Association of Clan THE Int’l Assn.MacInnes of Clan (Aonghais MacInnes) Society of Australia Purposes of the Society All spelling variants of MacInnes are welcome worldwide: (Aonghais) (Mc)Angus, (Mc)Kinnis, (Mc)Innis, and New Zealand ● Foster Scottish culture and activities (Mc)Ginnis, (Mc)Ninch, (Mc)Neish, (Mc)Canse, MACLEODS ● Promote Scottish festivals and games (Mc)Masters, (Mc)Innes, (Mac)Masters If your surname is MacRae, ● Assist in genealogical research Worldwide, we welcome descendants ● Foster fellowship among kith and kin www.clanmacinnes.org RICH IN HIGHLAND or you are descended from a person having the ● Promote the history of Scotland Eric Peofrry ,all Di spellingrector-Me variations,mber Servic includinges 14 Jakes Lane, ● Promote charitable and educational (Mc)Angus,Dexter, (Mc)Canse, ME 04930; [email protected])Ginnis, (Mc)Guenis,g TRADITIONS surname MacRae (any spelling) or that of a Sept of activities via a scholarship fund ● Gather the Clan, as directed by our Chief, (Mc)Inch, (Mc)Innes, (Mc)Innis,(Mc)Kinnis, FOR INFORMATION: the Clan then you are eligible to join our Society. Alistair of Fordell WWW.CLANMACLEODUSA.ORG (Mc)Masters, (Mc)Neish, (Mc)Ninch, and more. Australian Contact: Contact Jeff Henderson [email protected] Scott Mcinnis, Member Services: [email protected] A.L. MacLeod Roslyn MacRae 0412 291 054 email: [email protected] 0439 330 012 3923 Rockwood Way #B or visit www.macinnes.org West Valley City, UT NZ Contact: Sue Tregoweth email: [email protected] www.clanhendersonsociety.com 84120-6880

Clan Hope of Craighall Society Clan MacRae Society For all of the name and lineage of Hope Clan Mackenzie Society INTERNATIONAL & AUSTRALIA Clan Macnachtan of North America President & Commissioner: Stephen Hope in Australia Inc. Granted Arms in 2008 [email protected] Association Worldwide

[email protected] www.clanhopeaustralia.org Membership enquiries Descendants andSepts of the We invite MacRaes of all UNITED STATES of AMERICA welcomed from Mackenzies CLAN MACNAUGHTON are invited to join our spelling variations and their High Commissioner: Worldwide Association to learn and share our descendants to join our Clan Richard Rex Hope of all spellings and Septs [email protected] MacNaughton and Scottish heritage. For more info go to: MacRae Society. Learn your Membership Chair: Contact: N Dennis, 61 Alma Street, clanmacnaughton.net or contact Scottish MacRae history and family lineage! Janet Hope Higton Mary Nivison Burton, Membership Secretary at: [email protected] East Malvern 3145 Ph 03 9569 5716 www.clanhope.org www.macrae.org [email protected] CANADA Visit our website Need more info? Contact: Commissioner: New Second Edition! Scott Hale Check out your Tartan and Sept A History of the Clan Macnachtan Bruce McRae, President [email protected] 303-670-9611 www.clanhope.ca Paperback available through www.clanmackenzie.org.au [email protected] https://www.facebook.com/groups/ClanHopeofCraighall Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.ca  Clan MacNeil Association      OF AUSTRALIA  For all enquiries about the clan and Clan MacLaren Clan Labhran membership contact.  Pantone 363 U Pantone 368 U Clan Maitland     Pantone 186 U ůĂŶDĂĐ>ĂƌĞŶ  ůĂŶ>ĂďŚƌĂŶ  John McNeil   21 Laurel Avenue, Linden Park,  Society  SA 5065   Email [email protected]  Chief: Ian Maitland, The Earl of Lauderdale! Clan Irwin Association  We are all related! Contact your local society  Clan MacNeil Association North America: Rosemary Maitland Thorn Clan Irwin Association Patron [email protected] www.clanmaitlandna.org Alexander Irvine of Drum  of Australia th Clan MacLaren Society of Australia Australia: Carole Maitland [email protected] 27 Baron of Drum & Chief of the Name. ůĂŶDĂĐ>ĂƌĞŶ^ŽĐŝĞƚLJŽĨƵƐƚƌĂůŝĂ For all enquiries about the clan and Contact: Barbara Edelman, Chairman (includes New Zealand members) 4230 Colac- Lavers Hill RoadWeeaproinah. VIC. 3237 65 Colonial Drive, Telford, PA 18969 ;ŝŶĐůƵĚĞƐEĞǁĞĂůĂŶĚŵĞŵďĞƌƐͿ membership contact: John McNeil New Zealand: Judette Maitland [email protected] 215-721-3955 [email protected] www.clanmaclarenau.orgǁǁǁ͘ĐůĂŶŵĂĐůĂƌĞŶĂƵ͘ŽƌŐ 21 Coopers Avenue 33 Disley Street, High bury, Wellington 6012. NZ IRWIN • IRVIN • IRVINE • IRVING • ERWIN • ERVIN [email protected]ĐůĂŶŵĂĐůĂƌĞŶĂƵΛŐŵĂŝů͘ĐŽŵ Leabrook, South Australia 5068 We welcome all with Maitland, Lauderdale, Maitlen and similar Over 270 ways the name has been spelled since 325 A.D. name spelling. See the entire list and your family history at: ϬϰϮϮϮϮϯϭϲϭ www.clanirwin.org 0422 223 161 Phone: 08 833 33990 Email: [email protected] www.clanmaitland.org.uk

Clan Munro Association, U.S.A Clan MacLaren We are the only national organization of Clan MacAlpine MacLaren MacLaurin Lawrence Lawson Low[e] Munro in the U.S .A. affiliated with the Low[e]ry Law[e] Patterson MacPatrick MacRory Clan Munro (Association) of Scotland. Society Mark A. McLaren, President COME JOIN US! 102 Rainbow Drive #48 611 Indian Home Rd. Web site: www.Clanmunrousa.org Livingston, TX 77399-10020 USA Danville, CA 94526 Write: Heather Munro Daniel Earl Dale McAlpine - President (925) 838-8175 4600 Lloydrownn Road Email: [email protected] [email protected] Mebane, NC 27302

Clan MacDougall Society of North America, Inc. Oliphant Clan Clan MacDougall Society of North America, Inc. Valerie McDougall Valerie McDougall Clan MacLellan VP Membership VP Membership & Family Association MacDougall MacDowall MacDougall 505-470 Scenic Drive, London, ON MacDowall John B. McClellan, Jr. N5Z 3B2 of North America N5Z 3B2 Email: [email protected] Home page: www.macdougall.org Treasurer Email: [email protected]: www.facebook.com/clanmacdougall Home page: www.macdougall.org

Facebook: www.facebook.com/clanmacdougall 383 Ash Brook Lane The only home Names Associated with Clan MacDougall of Argyll Clan MacNicol and Clan MacDowall of Galloway for all Clan Oliphant Names Associated with Clan MacDougall of Argyll Sunnyvale, TX Coul MacCoul Macoual in the Americas. Conacherand ClanMacConacher MacDowall of Galloway 75182-3250 Chief: John MacNeacail Coyle MacCoyle CoulDole MacCoulMacDole MacoualMacDill Doual MacDoual McDougal Email: [email protected] of MacNeacail and Scorrybreac DougalConacher MacDougalMacConacherl MacDougald Oliphant - Olyphant - Oliphint CoyleDougle MacCoyleMcdougle McDougald Invites all MacLellans and their descendants regardless Dugal MacDugal MacDugle Olifant -Olifent DowallDole MacDowalMacDole MacDowallMacDill Contact Ross Nicolson DoualMacDowell MacDoualMacdowell McDougalMcDowell of surname spelling to join in preserving our heritage. and all descended DougalLullich MacDougalMcLullich l MacDougaldMacCullich MacCulloch McCulloch MacCullagh Various family names are MacLellan(d), McClellan(d), 10/377 North Rocks Rd., MacClintockDougle MacLintockMcdougle McLintockMcDougald DugalMacHale MacDugalMcHoul MacDugleMactheul MacHowell MacCowan McCown McLellan(d) and Gilliland. Carlingford NSW 2118 [email protected] MacKichanDowall M’GowallMacDowal MacNamellMacDowall MacDowellMacLucas MacdowellMacLugash McDowellMacLuke Visit our website: www.clanmaclellan.net www.clanmacnicol.org www.OliphantOfNorthAmerica.org LullichSpelling VariationsMcLullich May Vary or OmitMacCullich the Mac, Mc MacCulloch McCulloch MacCullagh MacClintock MacLintock McLintock MacHale McHoul Mactheul MacHowell MacCowan McCown MacKichan M’Gowall MacNamell MacLucas MacLugash MacLuke The Scottish Banner • November 2020 • Page 19 Spelling Variations May Vary or Omit the Mac, Mc THE SCOTTISH BANNER Clan Pollock Scottish Associations and Societies Among the most ancient families of Scotland. If you are a descendant of Pollock, Pollok, Pook, Polk, Polke, Paulk, Poalke, Poulk, Poolke, Pogue The Scottish Australian - you are cordially invited to contact: Heritage Council A. D. Pollock, Jr. PO Box 404 Greenville, KY 42345 e-mail: [email protected] Clan Pollock Clan Sinclair Australia Through our platform of projects and events ASF Among the most ancient families of Scotland. If you are a Membership and inquiries from all Sinclairs, helps share and strengthen the heritage and cultural Membership is welcomed descendant of Pollock, Pollok, Pook, Polk, Polke, Paulk, Poalke, Sinclair Septs and Sinclair descendants. message of Scotland’s past and future. A bridge from all Australians of Scottish descent. Poulk, Poolke, Pogue - you are cordially invited to contact: For further info contact between the United States and Scotland. For information please contact A. D. Pollock, Jr. President: WayneSinclair 0417 146 174 www.americanscottishfoundation.org The Hon Secretary SAHC, Susan Cooke Secretary : Liane Sinclair 0410 045 263 Ph: 0411097724 PO Box 404 Email: [email protected] Greenville, KY 42345 E: [email protected] www.scottishaustralianheritagecouncil.com.au e-mail: [email protected] www.clansinclairaustralia.com

 ^ĐŽƚƚŝƐŚ'ĂĞůŝĐ Ross Clan in AustraliaClan Ross >ĂŶŐƵĂŐĞůĂƐƐĞƐ͗ The clan is active again in Australia  for information contact in Australia tĞĚŶĞƐĚĂLJƐϳ͗ϬϬͲϴ͗ϯϬƉŵ Commander Des Ross(By appointment David Ross Bt Chief of Clan Ross and Balnagowan) Comunn Gàidhlig for information contact Commander Des Ross The Stewart Society  ĚƵƌŝŶŐƐĐŚŽŽůƚĞƌŵƐ  Astràilia ϰϮϬͲϰϮϰtŝůůŝĂŵ^ƚƌĞĞƚ͕tĞƐƚDĞůďŽƵƌŶĞ͘ We would be pleased to hear from anyone with Ross Clan (By appointment David Ross Bt Chief of Clan Ross and Balnagowan) Welcomes Stewarts, however spelt, by name, heritage and interest. birth, or descent, from all over the world. Annual (The Scottish Gaelic Association of Australia) is a  ŽŶƚĂĐƚ͗DĂƵƌŝĐĞ&ŽǁůĞƌϬϰϬϴϮϮϯϮϳϳ We wouldcontact Commander Des Ross at be pleased to hear from anyone [email protected] nonprofit organisation which supports the language with Ross Clan heritage and interest. Gathering in historic, Stewart-related properties in ŵĂŝů͗ƐĐŽƚƚŝƐŚŐĂĞůŝĐǀŝĐƚŽƌŝĂΛŐŵĂŝů͘ĐŽŵ Scotland. Newsletter. Annual magazine. and culture of Scottish Gaels. Ruaraidh MacAonghais, N each Cathrach (Convenor)  Contact: Commander Des Ross at ^ĐŽƚƚŝƐŚ'ĂĞůŝĐ^ŽĐŝĞƚLJŽĨsŝĐƚŽƌŝĂ Please inquire: The Secretary Phone: 04 0482 2314 E-mail: [email protected]  [email protected] M 0403 830 853 53 George Street, Edinburgh EH2 2HT, Web: www.ozgaelic.org   &ŽƵŶĚĞĚŝŶϭϵϬϱ Ken Duthie JP Director of Publicity M 0409 322 374 Tel/Fax 0131 220 4512 www.stewartsociety.org Mail: PO Box A2259, SYDNEY SOUTH 1235 ŚƚƚƉƐ͗ͬͬǁǁǁ͘ƐĐŽƚƚŝƐŚŐĂĞůŝĐǀŝĐƚŽƌŝĂ͘ĐŽŵ       Clan Ross America  žŝƐŝƌ'ŚăŝĚŚůŝŐŚŝŽĐƚžŝƌŝĂ Representing the great Highland Clan of Ross since 1976. ^ĐŽƚƚŝƐŚ'ĂĞůŝĐŚŽŝƌŽĨsŝĐƚŽƌŝĂ  ǁǁǁ͘ĨĂĐĞŬ͘ĐŽŵͬ^ĐŽƚƚŝƐŚ'ĂĞůŝĐŚŽŝƌŽĨsŝĐƚŽƌŝĂ Clan Sutherland Society in ŽLJŽƵůŝǀĞŝŶDĞůďŽƵƌŶĞ͍ƌĞLJŽƵŝŶƚĞƌĞƐƚĞĚŝŶ'ĂĞůŝĐĂŶĚ Australia Incorporated Caledonian Society  ŝƚƐŵƵƐŝĐ͕ŽƌĚŽLJŽƵƐŝŵƉůLJĞŶũŽLJƐŝŶŐŝŶŐ͍tŚLJŶŽƚũŽŝŶƵƐ͍ ZĞŚĞĂƌƐĂůƚŝŵĞƐ͗ Contact: M Hodgkinson of WA Inc.  dŚƵƌƐĚĂLJϳͲϵƉŵĚƵƌŝŶŐƐĐŚŽŽůƚĞƌŵƐ͕ Paul D Ross, President 212 MacKenzie Street Promotes Scottish Culture and Traditions dĞƌŵϭϮϬϮϬďĞŐŝŶŶŝŶŐϲƚŚ&ĞďƌƵĂƌLJ  Virg Bumann, VP Membership Toowoomba 4350 (07 4632 8559) in Perth, Western Australia ĂƚdŚĞ<ŝůĚĂƌĂĞŶƚƌĞ͕ƌĞĂƌŽĨ 1015 Archer St, San Diego, CA, 92109 [email protected] For further details contact John: 0427 990 754  ϯϵ^ƚĂŶŚŽƉĞ^ƚƌĞĞƚ͕DĂůǀĞƌŶ͘  [email protected] Email: [email protected] http://goldenvale.wixsite.com/clansutherlandaus ZĂŐŚŶĂŝĚEŝĐ'ĂƌĂŝĚŚ [email protected] www.caledoniansocietyofwainc.com  ŽŶƚĂĐƚ www.clanross.org Facebook: Clan Sutherland Society in Australia ƌĂĐŚĞů͘ŚĂLJΛŝŝŶĞƚ͘ŶĞƚ͘ĂƵ 

  SHOULDER TO SHOULDER   Clan Ross of Clan Sutherland  Society of North  The United States  David Ross of Ross, Baron Balnagowan, America Inc. Hunter Valley Chief of the Clan invites all Ross’, septs and their The Society cordially invites membership of all Sutherlands   descendants toto join in preserving our heritage. Scots Club Inc The Society of St. Andrew (however the name is spelled) and of the associated families: Promotes and supports all forms of Scottish culture of Scotland www.theclanross.com Cheyne, Duffus, Gray, Frederith, Mowat and Oliphant. in Newcastle, Hunter Valley and surrounding areas.  (Queensland) Limited  Members and interested people are welcome to ABN 30 093 578 860 [email protected] Email: [email protected] attend activities such as Burns Night, Caledonian Night, Invites membership of all people of St Andrew’s Day, and other social functions.  Contact L. Q. Ross Scottish descent or association Website: www.ClanSutherland.org Web: hvscots.org Email: [email protected] The Secretary, P.O. Box 3233, South Brisbane, BC, 105 S. Graham Ave, Orlando, Fl 32803 P.O. Box 34, Kotara NSW 2289 www.standrewsociety.com 

 Scots of Victoria Clan Young The Robert Burns Club Coordinating Group of Melbourne Inc.  Supporting the Scottish Australia > Promotes interest in the works, life and  Community in Victoria Clan Scott Ian J Young AM milieu of the Scottish Poet Robert Burns Convenor > Celebrates Scottish Culture Scottish Resource Centre Australia Group Level 1, 420 – 424 William St. Membership inquiries: > Conducts Annual Burn Supper, Poetry  Clan Chief: The Duke of Buccleuch KT, K.B.E West Melbourne VIC 3003 Clan Young Australia Afternoon & Pleasant Sunday Afternoon Commissioner: Heather de Sylva 10 Cedric Street

Membership welcome from Scotts and Septs: Parkdale VIC 3195 For Membership Information contact: E-mail: [email protected] Balwearie, Harden, Laidlaw, Geddes & Langlands. [email protected] Secretary: Noel Wright (03) 8333 0973 Email: [email protected] Website: https//scotsofaus.org.au E: [email protected] www.facebook.com/groups/youngsofaustralia/ Facebook: facebook.com/ScotsofVictoria

Clan Shaw Society Invites membership or inquires from all: Victorian Scottish Union Inc Shaw, Ayson, Adamson, Esson, MacAy, Established 1905 MacHay, Shiach, Sheach, Sheath, Seith, Scottish Heritage Seth, Skaith, Scaith and Shay. Umbrella group representing the interest

Mike Shaw of Scottish Clans and Societies in Victoria. Secretary USA, Inc. Affiliated Clans & Societies 2403 West Cranford Denison, TX 75020 Ballarat Highland Dancing Geelong Scottish Dance P.O. Box 457 Balmoral Highland Dancing Society Glenbrae Celtic Dancers Clan Shaw Society Begonia City Highland Dancing Society Kilmore Celtic Festival Clan Wardlaw Association Pinehurst, NC 28370 Brunswick Scottish Society Maryborough Highland Society Invites membership or inquires from all: Clan Donald Victoria Mornington Peninsula Caledonian Society Founded 2004 Welcomes membership of anyone interested Clan Grant Scottish Country Dance Victoria Society Shaw, Ayson, Adamson, Esson, MacAy, Clan Macdonald Yarraville Inc The Robert Burns Club of Melbourne Worldwide organization for all Wardlaws or related in the exchange of people and ideas between Clan Mackenzie of Australia Robert Burns Club of Camperdown MacHay, Shiach, Sheach, Sheath, Seith, Clan Maclean Australia Warrnambool & District Caledonian Society families. We invite you to join us. Scotland and the United States. Clan Sinclair Association Warrnambool Caledonian Highland Dancing Society Seth, Skaith, Scaith and Shay. Clan Sutherland Australia Email: [email protected] Write or phone for our free brochure. Chief: Ms Ceilidh McKinna Robertson Secretary: Mike Shaw www.scottishheritageusa.org President: Mr Douglas Pearce ‘Wardlaw ivermair!’ Secretary: Mrs Jan Macdonald 2403 West Cranford www.clanwardlaw.com email: [email protected] T: 03 9360 9829 M: 0438 584 930 (910) 295-4448 E: [email protected] Denison, TX 75020 Wardlaw Tartan and Ancestry Books www.victorianscottishunion.com

Page 20 • The Scottish Banner • November 2020 THE SCOTTISH BANNER Majestic collection showcased on global stage Scotland’s oldest surviving book still in a Scottish collection is among the historic artefacts showcased in a new free online experience.

Elsewhere, the story of the University’s and the Taj Mahal. The Google Arts & international reputation in medicine and Culture app is free and available online for 500 years of medical teaching will be told iOS and Android. through items from the anatomy collection Google Arts & Culture has been an and the Lothian Health Services Archive innovation partner for cultural institutions – which holds a wealth of historically since 2011 to develop technologies that important records of NHS hospitals. help preserve and share culture and allow Also included are engravings and curators to create engaging exhibitions photographs from the Corson Collection online and offline, inside museums. – an archive relating to the travels of To view Connections//Collections: renowned, novelist, poet, historian, lawyer Sharing Scotland’s Stories with the World and alumnus, Sir Walter Scott. see:https://artsandculture.google.com/ Daryl Green Head of Special Collections partner/university-of-edinburgh said: “The University’s Collections play an important role in object-based learning, research and inspiration. This challenging year has brought the need for online engagement into sharper focus and we are delighted to be able to work with Google Arts & Culture to share the stories behind The 11th century Celtic Psalter. the collections more widely.” All images courtesy of University of Edinburgh, Special Collections. Special of Edinburgh, images courtesy of University All The platform allows users to zoom in he University of Edinburgh has polymer resin was injected into the air on objects in detail and read about the joined the British Library, the passages inside the lung, known as the stories behind the artefacts. Connections// Louvre and others in collaborating bronchial tree.`One Pound Coin, 2017, Collections: Sharing Scotland’s Stories with with Google Arts & Culture to make by Lara Hirst - Exploring material and the World will feature artwork by Edinburgh Ttheir collections more accessible to a wider perceptions of value, Hirst transforms a College of Art Graduates, purchased by The Inchcolm Antiphoner, book of audience. The magnificent Celtic Psalter, single pound coin by recasting it into a the University of Edinburgh Art Collection anthems. which has been described as Scotland’s perfect cube.`Anatomical Museum in the which can be viewed on the Google Arts & Books of Kells, is one of a series of objects University of Edinburgh Medical School, Culture Platform. The exhibition is open which can be viewed on the Google Arts Teviot Place. Designed by Robert Rowand and free to the public. & Culture website and app. The pocket- Anderson, the museum opened in 1884. size book of Psalms – dated to the 11th International reputation century and most likely produced at the Sharing stories The University of Edinburgh’s Museums monastery of Iona – is one of more than The story of the University’s Special and Special Collections contains a 150 images from the collection housed in Collections, Museums and colleges will vast range of rare and unique material the University Main Library which will be be told though themes relating to the including manuscripts and archives, rare accessible on the free digital platform. University’s heritage and Scotland’s books, musical instruments, works of art `Celtic Psalter - An 11th century Psalter, culture, past and present. Among the and photographs. It houses an estimated or Book of Psalms, in Latin probably attractions are photographs from the 35 kilometres of historic material – much produced in a monastery on the west archive of Sir Patrick Geddes – the so- of which cannot be found anywhere coast of Scotland.`Inchcolm Antiphoner called father of modern town planning – else in the world, along with a rare book – A page from an Antiphoner, a book of who is famed for regenerating Edinburgh’s collection of around 400,000 volumes. anthems. It is a rare example of Celtic Old Town. Objects from the University’s Google Arts & Culture puts the plainchant that would have been sung world-class collection of musical collections of more than 2,000 museums at in monasteries around Scotland.`Patrick instruments also feature, including a violin people’s fingertips. It is an immersive way th Geddes Collection- Lawnmarket and High from the 19 century played by James to explore art, history and the wonders The Scott Monument, taken by Street, Edinburgh, from the Outlook Tower. Scott Skinner – one of Scotland’s most of the world, from Van Gogh’s bedroom early Scottish photographers. `Violin – This 19th-century violin belonged famous fiddlers. paintings to the women’s rights movement to the Scottish fiddler James Scott Skinner (1843-1927).`The Scott Monument – Image by pioneering Scottish photographers D. O. Hill and Robert Adamson depicts the Scott Monument in Edinburgh’s Princes Street Gardens.`Dermatome man model, Anatomy Collection - This late 20th century anatomical model is made from papier-mâché. The dermatome is the area of skin supplied by a single, specific spinal nerve root.`Lung resin cast model - To create this anatomical model

Lawnmarket and High St, Edinburgh.

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IN THE SCOTTISH KITCHEN - ST ANDREW’S DAY MENU

Add the flour and butter and mix thoroughly. Tip onto a lightly floured surface and knead for about five minutes to form a smooth elastic dough. Place the dough into a clean, lightly Celebrate this St Andrew’s Day oiled bowl and cover with a damp tea with a traditional dinner using towel. Leave to prove in a warm place for some of the finest recipes from about one hour or until doubled in size. When the dough has risen, remove the tea Scotland’s natural larder. towel and punch the dough down. Tip onto a Sample some great Scottish style lightly floured surface and knead in the fruit food and drink on November and muscovado sugar until well combined. 30th with your friends and family Shape the dough into a round shape and place on a lightly greased baking and enjoy a St Andrew’s Night! Method: sheet. Cover again with a damp tea towel Boil the potatoes until very tender, about and leave to rise in a warm place again for Cullen Skink Method: 20 mins. Meanwhile, make the skirlie. 30 minutes or until it has doubled in size. Ingredients: To make the cardamom honey: crush Heat the butter in a frying pan, add the Preheat the oven to 180C/350F/Gas For the stock: the cardamom pods in a pestle and onion and cook for 10 mins until golden 4. Brush the bannock with a little beaten 75g/2½oz. butter mortar to separate the dry pods from and soft. Add the oatmeal and stir until egg to glaze. Bake for 45-50 minutes 1 tbsp. vegetable oil the seeds. Discard the husks. Toast the butter is absorbed and the mix looks until risen and a rich brown colour. If the 2 leeks, roughly chopped the seeds in a dry pan to release their dry. Continue cooking until the skirlie is bread is getting too dark, cover lightly 2 onions, peeled, roughly chopped oils so they become aromatic. toasted, stirring (skirling round the pan) all with parchment paper or foil. When the 2 fennel bulbs, roughly chopped Pour half of the honey into a pan and the time for 5 mins, but do not let it catch bread is ready it should sound hollow 250ml/9fl oz. white wine add the crushed and toasted cardamom and burn. Remove and keep warm. Drain when the underneath is tapped gently. 500g/17½oz smoked haddock seeds. Gently heat through until the honey the potatoes, return to the hot pan and Leave to cool slightly before slicing and 750ml/1 pint 7fl oz. water has become more liquid and starts to mash really well. Beat in the cream, parsley serving warm with plenty of butter. For the soup: and skirlie, then season to taste. Serve bubble at the edges; if you have a probe 75g/2½oz. butter immediately before the skirlie softens. Crispy neeps ‘n’ tatties cake thermometer, the temperature should be 1 tbsp. vegetable oil 75C/165F. Remove from the heat and pour 2 leeks, finely chopped Stovies Ingredients: the flavoured honey back into the jar with 2 shallots, peeled, finely chopped the remaining honey. Stir gently, and leave Ingredients: 1 large swede, peeled and cut into chunks 2 garlic cloves, peeled, crushed 4 baking potatoes, peeled and cut into chunks to cool, uncovered. When cool, put on the lid 3.5 lbs./1.6 kg. of peeled potatoes chopped 300g/10½oz. potatoes, peeled, chopped 50g./1.75oz. butter and ideally store for 24 hours before using. into approximately 1 in./2.5 cm. cubes. 500ml/17½fl oz. double cream sunflower oil, for greasing To make the cranachan: heat a heavy- 1-1.5lb./ 450-675g. of onions chopped 1 tbsp. finely chopped fresh parsley 8 thin slices pancetta bottomed pan and toast the oatmeal over a reasonably finely. If you like a pinch freshly grated nutmeg Method: low heat, stirring occasionally, until it smells stronger onion flavour, add more. Boil the swede and potatoes in salted warm and nutty and has changed colour. Method: 1 lb./450 g. of Lorne sausage (or a square water for about 20 mins until completely This will take 10-15 minutes, sometimes For the stock, heat the butter and shaped flat sausage,) chopped into tender, then drain well. Return to the as long as 20 minutes. Leave to cool. vegetable oil in a large pan and gently approximately 1inc./2.5 cm squares pan under a very low heat for a few mins In a bowl, crush half of the raspberries fry the leeks, onions and fennel for Salt to taste - traditionally a generous to dry out. Off the heat, bash the veg to make a rough mash. In a separate 3-4 minutes, or until softened. amount of salt would be added. Add the white wine to the pan and bring into a chunky mash with half the butter, bowl, whisk the cream with the honey, to the boil. Add the smoked haddock, pour Method: a touch of salt and lots of pepper. whisky and rosewater until soft peaks in the water and bring back to the boil. Bring a large pot of water to the boil. Heat oven to 220C/200C fan/gas 7. form when the whisk is removed, then Reduce the heat and simmer for 30 minutes, Add the onions, potatoes, sausage and salt. Grease an ovenproof frying pan with a fold in the crushed raspberries. skimming off any scum that rises to the Allow to boil without a lid for as splash of oil and line the pan with the Fold in the toasted oatmeal and surface, until the haddock is cooked through. long as it takes for the potatoes to pancetta so it meets in the middle (like two-thirds of the remaining whole Strain the haddock, reserving the cooking become soft and mushy. If required, the stripes on the Union Flag). Press the raspberries. Adjust the honey and rose stock. Chop the haddock into bite-sized pieces. add more boiling water from a kettle. veg into the dish (you can get up to this water to taste. Spoon the cranachan For the soup, heat the butter with For the tastiest of results, allow stage up to a day ahead and keep in the into small glasses, and garnish with the the vegetable oil and fry the leeks, the stovies to burn slightly and stick fridge). Dot with the remaining butter, remaining raspberries and some rose shallots and garlic for 3-4 minutes, or to the pot before scraping the sticky, then bake for about 40 mins until crisp petals, if using. Drizzle with a wee bit until softened. Add the potatoes and the burnt parts back into the stovies. and golden. Remove from the oven, turn more of the cardamom honey and serve. chopped smoked haddock to the pan. out onto a board and cut into wedges. Add the reserved cooking stock and Bannocks Clansman’s Coffee bring to the boil, then reduce the heat and Scottish cranachan simmer for 10-15 minutes, or until the potatoes are tender. Stir in the cream and briefly blend the soup with a stick blender. Serve the soup with crusty bread and sprinkle with the chopped fresh parsley and a sprinkling of freshly grated nutmeg. Skirlie mash

Ingredients: Ingredients: 1 x 7g sachet fast-action yeast For the cardamom honey: 1 tsp. caster sugar 1 x 250g/9oz jar clear honey Ingredients: 500g/1lb 2oz. strong white flour 20 cardamom pods, seeds only, finely ground 1 measure of scotch 125g/4½oz. unsalted butter, melted Dash of Sambucca For the cranachan: 250g/9oz. dried mixed fruit Black coffee Ingredients: 40g/1½oz. medium or coarse oatmeal 50g/2oz. light muscovado sugar Whipped cream 1kg/2.2 lbs. floury potatoes 200g/7oz .raspberries beaten egg, for glazing 85g/3oz. butter 400ml/14fl oz. double cream Method: 2 onions, finely chopped Method: 2 tbsp. cardamom honey Wipe the rim of a goblet with a piece of 50g/1.76oz. pinhead or medium Mix together the yeast, caster sugar (from above), or to taste lemon and dip it in brown sugar. Pour the oatmeal (not flakes) and 250ml/9fl oz. lukewarm water 3 tbsp. malt whisky spirits and coffee into the glass, add sugar 6 tbsp. double cream in a large bowl. Leave to stand for 10 ½-1 tsp. rosewater, or to taste to taste and float the whipped cream on handful curly parsley, chopped minutes until the mixture is frothy. rose petals, to garnish (optional) top. Decorate with grated chocolate.

Page 22 • The Scottish Banner • November 2020 THE SCOTTISH BANNER How you can help identify Scotland’s archives Thousands of Scotland’s historic archives are now available to view online. identify as many as possible with the help Lesley continues: “By digitising our of the public. Also digitised this year were archives, we’re able to make them available prints relating to significant archaeological to even more people. Digitisation helps digs including images of excavations at us make heritage accessible to all as well historic sites such as Skara Brae in Orkney as ensuring the long-term preservation and Edinburgh Castle. Approximately of these important documents and 14,000 prints were also digitised from photographs.” personal research and work by prominent To provide HES with details or locations archaeologists such as Dr Euan Mackie, of its archives, please email archives@ Roger Mercer and Vere Gordon Childe, with hes.scotor to view the images in the the oldest image dating from around 1927. Canmore collection (the online catalogue to Scotland’s archaeology, buildings, Scotland’s past industrial and maritime heritage) see: Lesley Ferguson, Head of Archives at www.canmore.org.uk HES, said: “These archives give a unique perspective on civic planning in the 20th century including the development and growth of Scotland’s new towns, while Fyrish Monument, Highlands in 1981. the images of excavations showcase the sites that helped archaeologists istoric Environment Scotland 1980s, from crofts in the Highlands and unlock the secrets of Scotland’s past – (HES) has asked the public to farms in Orkney to large estates in Fife and from the Neolithic to the Middle Ages. This image of Sauchiehall Street help identify over 5,000 archive tenements in Glasgow. Unfortunately, we don’t know where some in Glasgow is part of the Scottish images which are now available of these historic photographs were taken Development Department Collection. Honline for the first time. In 2019-20, over What life was like throughout Scotland and that’s why we are asking for the public’s 170,000 archive items from the HES The collection gives a rare insight into what help. Perhaps there’s a photo of your street, archives were digitised, with the images life was like throughout Scotland at that or your local pub, or even the flat you lived now being added to Canmore – the online time with pub interiors, fashion trends and in as a student. Help us discover more of catalogue of HES archives. interior design choices all documented. Scotland’s past by visiting Canmore and The new online records include There are also extensive records of Glasgow letting us know if you recognise any of the digitised copies of photographic negatives and Edinburgh and nearby locales, as places documented in these archives. Over and printed photographs from the Scottish well as Scotland’s new towns. Over 5,000 1 million archives documenting Scotland’s Development Department (SDD) which images of locations and building exterior archaeological sites, buildings, industry was formed in 1962. The archives showcase and interiors are currently unidentified as and maritime heritage are currently Berneray, Harris in 1983. rural and urban Scotland in the 1970s and part of this collection, with HES aiming to available on Canmore.”

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By: Nick Scotland’s first oil rush Drainey during the national effort of the Second World War but by the beginning of the 1960s the shale oil industry had died, a victim of the international trade in oil. Nowadays, our eco-friendly, modern society is far removed from the industrial age of shale oil, but that is not a reason to forget it, according to Dr Chesters. He says that a few decades ago “there was a pride that people were enterprising” but now the industrial past, and shale oil, can be seen as wrong. But he adds: “You need to go backwards to see where we have come from and how much we have progressed – looking after the environment and our health. You need that perspective to appreciate how well off we are.” Niddry Castle Oil Works.

Images courtesy of the Museum of Scottish Shale Oil Industry. of Scottish Shale courtesy of the Museum Images The Shail Trail During the late Victorian times oil works were established across much of West Lothian and new West Lothian has now developed a Shale Trail– a walking and cycling route through villages were built to accommodate the workforce, and new communities developed in the shadow the former industrial heartland. Covering of the bings. The industry competed successfully against cheaper imported petroleum for many 16 miles, it tells the shale oil story through information panels and access to sites years, and continued in operation until the 1960s. The Shale Trail is a new 16 mile trail across West such as the Five Sisters bing, while passing through some reclaimed countryside. Lothian to celebrate this part of Scotland’s industrial heritage, as Nick Drainey explains. Heath Brown the Shale Trail heritage manager said it is a great way “for he Five Sisters, so-called because Company and a huge complex consisting decade or so of the 20th century some of people to get involved and learn about of the number of mounds of shale of an oilworks, refinery and candleworks these were really model workers houses the history, wildlife and lives of the outside the village of West Calder, at a new village, Addiewell – one of many – three four rooms built with inside people who worked in the industry”. looks something akin to Uluru in communities which sprang up at the time. toilets, wash houses and so forth.” Councillor Tom Conn, West Lothian TAustralia. Despite the aesthetic qualities Dr. Robin Chesters, Director of the The companies were producing a Council Executive spokesman for the it is actually the result of heavy industry Almond Valley Heritage Trust which runs wide range of products, not only the oil Environment added: “The shale trail and is a Scheduled Monument, of national the Museum of the Scottish Shale Oil for lighting which had started it all off. is another welcome addition to the importance because of the role it played Industry, says over time West Lothian was Dr Chesters says: “Basically it was crude visitor experience in West Lothian but in the production of oil. Huge mounds transformed. “Beforehand, the industries oil they produced from the shale and it can also be used by local residents to of discarded rock, known as bings, rise focused on market towns and water power. just depended on what you wanted to get out and about and explore their more than 200 metres across the West It was basically a rural area until the shale do when you came to refine that crude local heritage and environment.” Lothian countryside, monuments to an oil took off. When the shale works started oil, what products you wanted.” Paraffin boom which laid the foundations of the people came from all over Scotland, the and lubricating oils are the well-known modern-day petro-chemical industry. Highlands, from Ireland and other places. products but there was also a lot of wax in The Five Sisters were built from It was a time of boom and bust, people the oil, meaning a number of candle works discarded shale from which oil had been didn’t stay in the same place for very long sprang up. And ammonium sulphate extracted at the nearby Westwood Oil because there was always the changing fertiliser, produced as a by-product of the Works but it is one of many bings only fortunes of these companies – responding extraction process, provided another good found in this part of Scotland. The origins to the changing market price of oil.” source of income for the companies. Oilbank village in 1910. of the shale oil boom are widely held to Many new companies began trading The beginning of the 20th century was have been production at nearby Inchcross, including the successful Broxburn Oil when shale oil was at its peak and demand close to Bathgate, where James Young Company and the Pumpherston Oil was high. According to the Museum of the produced oils - but from coal. This was Company. As with better known oil Scottish Shale Oil Industry over 12,000 before the US had seen any wells drilled. rushes across the world there were some were employed and output accounted for financial disasters as well and firms about 2% of the world’s oil production Oilshale such as the Linlithgow Oil Company before the outbreak of the First World War. From 1851 Young’s pioneering technique went bust while others prospered. However, after the First World War the saw the coal heated until the oil could With the influx of workers came the British had began working on oil in the be driven off using steam. At first the oil need for housing, and the growth of new Persian Gulf, meaning imports became Refinery staff. was used to light homes and the process communities on sites which had once cheaper. There was a small upturn was patented and sold across the world. been farmland. At first living conditions But in the 1860s a new source for the for some were not great, but things oil had to be found after supplies of did improve. Dr Chesters says: “It was the oil-rich “cannel coal” began to run an industry that was thrown together short and large amounts of American in a hurry; houses were flung up as petroleum began to be imported. cheaply as they possibly could in the Young started using oilshale – a different first instance. A lot of that housing stock rock from coal but found beneath a lot of survived until the 1920s and 1930s and West Lothian and in 1860 he established got into a really dreadful condition.” Young’s Paraffin Light and Mineral Oil A pride that people were enterprising However, when limited companies began to be formed in the 1880s owners realised that “to attract the best class of man you should offer the best class of housing”. Dr Chesters adds: “There were some enlightened proprietors at Addiewell Works. that time and certainly by the time the The Five Sisters. © Copyright Thomas Nugent. industry was at its zenith in the first

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