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Page 2 • North American Edition • September 2017 THE SCOTTISH BANNER ‘Droughtlander’ to end as Outlander returns Did you know? same people who parted at the standing stones, all those years ago?

Diana Gabaldon’s beautiful story Carmi Zlotnik, President of Programming for Starz said “While ‘Droughtlander’ will last just a little longer, we feel it is important to allow the production the time and number of episodes needed to tell the story of the Voyager book in its entirety. Scots and red hair The scale of this book is immense, and we - More than 20 million people in the owe the fans the very best show. Returning UK and Republic of Ireland carry the in September will make that possible.” gene that produces red hair. Steve Kent, Senior Executive Vice President, Programming, Sony Pictures Television said, - There are more red heads in Scotland Tobias Menzies (‘Black Jack’ Randall). than anywhere else in the world. “With the scope of the production and all of the intricate details that go into the Emmy- - Approximately 650,000 redheads are in eason three of the Golden Globe stones to return to her life in 1948. Now nominated sets and costumes, we had to Scotland or roughly 13% of the country, nominated series Outlander will pregnant with Jamie’s (Sam Heughan) make sure everything is kept to the high however 40% might carry the gene. return to television screens in child, she struggles with the fallout of her standard of the previous seasons and Diana - The Edinburgh and Lothian region September. The third season will sudden reappearance and its effect on Gabaldon’s beautiful story. We’re so proud was found to have a large percentage Sinclude 13 episodes based upon Voyager, her marriage to her first husband, Frank of the incredible work that Producer Ron D of ginger people, whilst the North and the third of eight books in Diana Gabaldon’s (Tobias Menzies). Meanwhile, in the 18th Moore and the Outlander team have done.” West are believed to over 10% less international best-selling Outlander series. In century, Jamie suffers from the aftermath of Diana Gabaldon’s eight-book likelihood of having the red head gene. March, production and filming on the current his doomed last stand at the historic battle Outlander series has sold more than 26 - Having red hair and blue eyes is season moved from its home base in Scotland of Culloden, as well as the loss of Claire. As million copies worldwide and all the actually rare. Most people have to Cape Town, South Africa, to shoot pivotal the years pass, Jamie and Claire attempt to books have graced the New York Times brown eyes, hazel or green shades. sea voyage scenes on the former sets of the make a life apart from one another, each best-sellers list. The Outlander series - Red hair is often thicker than STARZ original series Black Sails. Production haunted by the memory of their lost love. spans the genres of history, science other colours. on the season began in September 2016 and The budding possibility that Claire fiction, romance and adventure in - Set in the Scottish Highlands, Disney wrapped up in June. Outlander also recently can return to Jamie in the past breathes one grandiose tale. The second season film Brave, tells the story of a little attended San Diego Comic Con again, new hope into Claire’s heart… as well as of Outlander won the Critics’ Choice red-headed warrior princess named offering fans a chance to experience more of new doubt. Separated by continents and Award for Most Bingeworthy Show, and Merida and her courageous fight this beloved series in person. centuries, Claire and Jamie must find their four People’s Choice Awards, including against the tradition of her land and a way back to each other. As always, adversity, Favorite TV Show. mysterious, menacing beast. Claire and Jamie mystery, and adventure await them on the - The next Redhead Day UK will take The story picks up right after Claire path to reunion. And the question remains: Outlander returns for Season 3, place on 19th May, 2018.

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The Scottish Banner is pleased he Obama Family tartan (Reference: to be offering the Tartan of the 11839) was commissioned by the Hunter Foundation to commemorate Month series highlighting a the visit of former US President variety of different, unique and TBarack Obama when he flew in to Scotland colourful tartans from around the on 26 May 2017 to play golf at St Andrews. He world which are registered with went on to speak at a prestigious dinner in Edinburgh and was presented with a kilt and the Scottish Register of Tartans in trews made by Slanj Kilts. The red, sky blue Edinburgh. The Scottish Register and white colours in the tartan are taken of Tartans was established by an from the flag of Chicago where Mr Obama act of the Scottish Parliament in lived and worked, navy blue represents the Hawaiian flag where Mr Obama was November 2008 and promotes born and green represents the Kenyan flag and preserves information about to honour Barack Obama Senior’s family historic and contemporary roots. This tartan was designed by Brian tartans from Scotland and Halley of Slanj Kilts and registered in July, 2017. A woven sample of this tartan has throughout the world. Text and been received by the Scottish Register of image use is courtesy of the Tartans for permanent preservation in the Scottish Register of Tartans. National Records of Scotland.

North American Edition • September 2017 • Page 3 THE SCOTTISH BANNER Paisley named sole Scottish bidder on UK City of Culture 2021 shortlist

he team behind Paisley’s bid its ambitions. Renfrewshire Council to be UK City of Culture 2021 Leader Iain Nicolson – chair of the Paisley have thanked the people of 2021 Partnership Board – said: “For the the town for their ‘incredible judges to have shortlisted us is a major Tcontribution’ after Paisley was named as endorsement of our ambitions for Paisley the sole Scottish place on the shortlist and Renfrewshire – and we are in it to win for the next stage of the competition. it. I know local people will be absolutely The UK Government’s Department for thrilled at this news – we want to thank Digital, Culture, Media and Sport have every one of them as they are the ones confirmed the 11 places bidding for the whose incredible contribution made it title has been whittled down to just five – happen. They turned the bid into a mass Paisley, Coventry, Stoke, Sunderland and movement, with more than 30,000 people Swansea. Initial bids were lodged in April joining the conversation – a number – the five selected are due to submit more equivalent to almost half the town’s detailed second-stage bids by the end of population. Winning the UK City of September, with the winner announced Culture 2021 title would be a major boost at the end of the year. to our wider plans. Aside from hosting Paisley is bidding for the title as some of the world’s best performers and part of a wider push to use the town’s bringing more than a million people to unique heritage and cultural story as Paisley in 2021, it would over the long the home of the globally-recognised term create thousands of new jobs, and for Paisley – it taken awareness of our on a shared vision to change the area’s Paisley Pattern to transform its future. allow us to attract massive investment internationally-significant story to a future. Paisley will build on that over the It is estimated Paisley’s 2021 year could and build a new town centre economy new level and changed perceptions next few months as we look to further bring a £172m economic boost and with tourism and creativity at its heart. of the town. It has also brought a new convince the judges that the town wants create the equivalent of 4,700 jobs over We wish the best of luck to the other sense of self-confidence to residents and the title, needs the title, and will deliver a a ten-year period. Current UK City of places which join us on the shortlist, shown them how the power of culture year of world-class culture in 2021.” Culture hosts Hull has seen £1 billion and send our best wishes to those which can be harnessed to change people’s Work is under way in the town on of investment since winning the title didn’t make it through.” lives for the better. Our £1m Culture, new cultural infrastructure – including in 2013, with the city attracting 1.4m Heritage and Events Fund has boosted a proposed £42m revamp of Paisley visitors in just the first three months of Scottish first our local cultural scene and linked local Museum and a new museum store and its year in the spotlight. Paisley 2021 bid director Jean Cameron groups with some of Scotland’s best library on the town’s high street – as added: “There’s never been a Scottish creative talent – building a foundation well as work to reconnect the Pattern Major endorsement for Paisley winner and we would be thrilled to for our 2021 year. The initial bid was the back to the town which gave it its name and Renfrewshire be the first – we are now Scotland’s product of a wide range of local groups – via partnerships with international And the shortlist news has been hailed bid and would love to see the whole community and cultural organisations, design houses. by the team behind Paisley’s bid as a country get behind us. The work to schools and Young people, businesses To help support Paisley 2021 or for more massive thumbs-up for the town and date has already been really positive and the council – all working together details see: www.paisley2021.co.uk

By: Christine Woodcock Scottish North American Leadership Conference the University of Guelph’s Library. This was a wonderful learning opportunity for everyone to see the gems contained within the archives of the University. Our last segment for the day was our Youth. Rather than speakers, the Youth formed a panel and took questions from the floor to assist delegates in understanding the types of things that are of importance to their generation so that we can work on those ideas to help us to breathe new life into our clans, societies and organizations. Perhaps the best indicator of the day, as Gus Noble, Delegates at this year’s conference. Chris Maskell, Rianna Crawford and Richard Knight. Chicago Scots and founding member of Photo courtesy of Christine Woodcock. Photo courtesy of Gloria Crawford. the Scottish North American Leadership Conference, said in his closing address, ixty members of the Scots diaspora Chris’ talk was followed by grace and the conference was sharing our collective “a good conference is one in which the from across Canada and the US blessing by Rev John Borthwick, minister passion for our history and heritage and time runs out before the conference congregated at the University of Guelph of St Andrew’s Presbyterian Church in looking for ways to engage our youth in (and discussion) does” for the annual Scottish North American Guelph. After salad, we were treated our organizations so that we can ensure The Scottish North American SLeadership Conference. While normally held to the presentation of the haggis, the our organizations last into the future. Diaspora was well represented at the in the US, the conference was brought to address by bard David Campbell and Conference. The ability to meet and Canada as part of the Canada150 celebrations. finishing off with a toast. After dinner, we History, Heritage and Youth network was a wonderful by-product In an effort to provide a truly Scottish element, were treated to some wonderful Celtic The day was divided into three segments: of the conference. The energy raised the conference was scheduled to coincide music by Mystic Fyre. History, Heritage and Youth. The first two and the enthusiasm shared provided with the nearby Fergus Scottish Festival. Friday saw a very stimulating array segments saw two speakers followed by the necessary renewal for all of us to The Conference began with a banquet, of talks, opened by Youth Ambassador, a panel discussion. After each segment, continue forward with our organizations, held in the Faculty Club of the University Rianna Crawford who shared her vision there was a break and the chatter full of new ideas to strengthen them. We where delegates were able to network over of engaging youth in our clans, societies and excitement carried on into these look forward to continuing the dialogue, cocktails ahead of the opening address and organizations. Rianna was followed respite periods as well. After lunch, the to hearing more about the Scottish Youth by Chris Maskell, head of Scottish Affairs, by Richard Knight of VisitScotland who entire delegation joined up with Clan Organization that is being formed, and Canada. Chris spoke of the work of the shared some wonderful videos and had MacFarlane Worldwide who were enjoying supporting one another over the coming Scottish government both in Scotland and all of us ready to pack our bags and head an exhibit of Scottish Medieval Charters year. We all look forward to the next their work to support the diaspora. to our ancestral homeland. Our theme for from the Scottish Special Collections of opportunity to gather again.

Page 4 • North American Edition • September 2017 THE SCOTTISH BANNER Making a Murderer Aberdeen to be hit The face of the Crammond killer hardest by Brexit Munro of the University of Edinburgh in As the capital’s last criminal to be the last criminal dissection to take place dissected before the Anatomy Act of in the capital. 1832 abolished the practice, Howison is Councillor Ian Campbell, Edinburgh’s famed in the University of Edinburgh’s Depute Culture and Communities Anatomical Museum. His articulated Convener, said: “Edinburgh’s history never skeleton is still displayed next to the fails to amaze, shock and, in this case - remains of William Burke. scare. By putting a face to the Cramond Dr Janet Philp from the University’s Murderer, we have been able to piece Deanery of Biomedical Sciences, together the story of the man behind explained: “It’s fascinating to be able the crimes. The project has combined to link the Anatomical Museum to the Council’s archaeological findings local stories, which in turn enables berdeen is predicted to be worst with forensic techniques; the University our history to become increasingly hit by Brexit according to a study, of Edinburgh’s scientific research and accessible to others. A reconstruction by the Centre for Cities and the The facial reconstruction courtesy A remains; and the brilliant local knowledge like this, even with a measure of Centre for Economic performance at of Hayley Fisher Art. of the Cramond Heritage Trust. It is artistic license, helps us to increasingly the School of Economics. The fantastic to see the city collaborate and the appreciate and understand our city’s economy is heavily reliant on the utting a face to the ‘Cramond result is a fascinating new display in the museum collection and the significant oil industry, and Brexit’s impact will be Murderer’, a new museum display heart of the Cramond community.” role it has played in our city’s history.” driven by how it effects this one sector. in Edinburgh has used forensic John Lawson, City of Edinburgh Other Uk cities predicted to be hit hard techniques to picture John Howison Incredible events Council Archaeologist, added: “This by the Brexit process are Worthing, Pfor the first time. The life-like profile of the John Dods from the Cramond Heritage has been a rare opportunity to put Slough, Reading Swindon, Edinburgh, 19th Century killer is exhibited next to a Trust, said: “Cramond may be a small a face to one of Edinburgh’s lesser- London, Aldershot, Leeds and Ipswich. replica of his skull in a free display, open district but its history packs more incredible known perpetrators. We often focus on Aberdeen and Grampian Chamber now, at Cramond’s Maltings Interpretation events and findings than many parts of the history of the city centre, but our of Commerce chief executive, Russell Centre. John Howison’s crimes involved the Edinburgh. The trial of John Howison is one communities are just as interesting. The Borthwick, said: “Clearly there are brutal murder of a local woman, Ms Marta of the area’s lesser known tales, but it was story of John Howison, the Cramond challenges associated with whatever Geddes, on 21 January 1832. The widow was an important event in scientific history. I Murderer, is especially captivating.” type of Brexit outcome we see but we found dead with severe fracture wounds to hope our display at the Maltings educates are hopeful that the technology, skills The Maltings Interpretation Centre is a her head – following an unprovoked attack and provides visitors with an insight into and innovation for which this area is by Howison with a sharp spade. Cramond’s colourful and sometimes small museum outlining the history of renowned will stand us in good stead He was sentenced by Judge David unsavoury past. I’m delighted we are able to Cramond. Run by volunteers, the space is to see this as an opportunity rather Boyle (pictured) to execution by public host this display locally, and thank everyone free to visit between 2-5pm every Saturday than a threat.” hanging before his body was given to Dr involved for making it happen.” and Sunday between April and September. Historic sites celebrate ‘Outlander effect’ terrestrial television debut and series three gets ready to hit screens again internationally. Stephen Duncan, Director of Commercial and Tourism at Historic Environment Scotland, who manage over 300 Historic Scotland visitor attractions, said: “I’m delighted to welcome this boost in visitor numbers as we continue to celebrate the Year of History, Heritage and Scottish historic sites are feeling the Archaeology. This is an excellent return on the ‘Outlander effect’ as they celebrate investment we have made across our estate. a significant surge in visitor numbers. At Doune Castle, for example, after Photo: Historic Environment Scotland. upgrading the visitor and retail offering, we have seen retail income increase 62% cottish historic sites are feeling the for the year to date. Featuring in Outlander ‘Outlander effect’ as they celebrate a has opened up our sites to a whole new significant surge in visitor numbers. audience, inspiring more and more visitors The start of the summer season to come and discover the history behind S2017 has seen sites in the care of Historic these places, further demonstrating Environment Scotland which have a starring the enduring value and significance of role in the hit TV series record dramatic heritage attractions in Scotland.” increases in footfall from the same period last year. Blackness Castle - which features Treasured heritage sites in the series as the stand in for Fort William Fiona Hyslop, Cabinet Secretary for Culture, - has seen the most significant rise in Tourism and External Affairs, said: “It’s visitors, up 72% for the period 1 April to 2 fantastic to see that the international success June 2017. Doune Castle, famed for its role of Outlander continues to draw visitors from as the fictional Castle Leoch, recorded an around the world to visit treasured heritage impressive 50% increase for the same period. sites like Doune Castle and Blackness Castle Other sites which recorded increased and find out more about Scotland’s rich visitor numbers after making a cameo history and fascinating heritage. The TV appearance in the series include: drama showcases Scotland to international Aberdour Castle 58% increase audiences and has helped strengthen the Linlithgow Palace 43% increase growth we’re seeing in tourism from overseas. Glasgow Cathedral 39% increase I’m delighted Scottish and UK audiences will now be able to watch Outlander on terrestrial Treasured heritage sites TV, and look forward to seeing the impact The announcement comes as the historical on visitor numbers to the heritage sites that time-travel drama series recently made its UK provide the stunning backdrop to the series.”

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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.

and beyond. The economies of Edinburgh, An Edinburgh City Council spokesman Midlothian and the northern Borders said as tourists in the Scottish capital are have all gained demonstrably from the being urged not to rub the nose of the opening of the Borders Railway. Now it is famous Greyfriars Bobby statue as it is time for Hawick and other communities in causing damage to one of the city’s most the southern Borders to benefit directly.” loved landmarks. Greyfriars Bobby was a Skye terrier who became known in the Allan McLean, Chairman, Campaign for 19th -century for supposedly spending Borders Rail said at the launch of a new 14 years guarding the grave of his owner report detailing the advantages of extending until dying in 1872. A year later, a drinking the Borders Railway route by 60 miles fountain topped with Bobby’s statue to include Carlisle, through Hawick and was erected at the junction of George “We have had lots of lovely comments states it would provide a strategic new link IV Bridge and Candlemaker Row to on social media about it and we really to the national rail network. The £350m commemorate him. The monument is hope lots more people will come and see “We have now been in discussion with Borders Railway, stretching 30 miles from now Edinburgh’s smallest listed building. it. This has been a long time coming for Council regarding the concept of a Edinburgh to Tweedbank, opened in us, but we are immensely proud to finally stadium on part of this site for over a year and 2015, and there are now calls for the line “The history of the Royal Navy and Scapa have this aircraft on display. It is the only would like to thank them for the assistance to be continued and reinstate the original Flow are tightly entwined. Last year, we combat veteran Spitfire in Scotland, with they have given us. When Dundee Football route, Scottish Government ministers recognised the huge sacrifice made by a fascinating history. The next stage of its Club were originally formed in 1893, they having pledged to look into the feasibility our sailors at the Battle of Jutland and restoration can now begin, as we refit the played their games at West Craigie Park. They of such an extension. Despite widespread commemorated the loss of HMS Hampshire. cockpit and carry out detail work on the rest then moved to a new ground at opposition, the Waverley Route connecting Now we will recognise the achievement of of the airframe. To unveil the aircraft in this, adjacent to the Docks in Dundee. In 1899, Edinburgh to Carlisle via the Borders carried Squadron Commander Edwin Dunning our 40th anniversary year, is a tremendous Dundee moved to their current home at Dens its final passengers in January 1969. with his first-ever landing of an aircraft on achievement for a small volunteer museum.” Park and we are delighted to be involved a ship at sea and his subsequent death a few in what we hope will be the development days later, but this weekend we are firmly Aviation Museum of their new home for the future.” committed to commemorating the tragedy curator David Reid said as the museum that was the loss of HMS Vanguard. The proudly unveiled a restored spitfire aircraft Bob Hynd of Leadingham Jameson Rogers devastating explosion, completely accidental which crashed into Loch Doon during World and Hynd Architects said as Dundee rather than a result of enemy action, was a War II. The Spitfire MkIIa P7540 was retrieved Football Club’s move from has shock when it happened and the tragic loss from the depths of the loch, which is near moved forward after the team’s owners and of more than 840 lives is still felt through Dalmellington, during a recovery operation management began the official process of their descendants and those in Orkney 35 years ago. The plane had crashed on obtaining planning permission for a new who feel passionately that we should mark October 25, 1941, killing the pilot whose body stadium at Campderdown Park, adjacent to the centenary in appropriate fashion.” was never found — he is commemorated the Dundee Ice Arena. Although plans for on a memorial at the side of the loch. the new stadium have not yet been drawn Naval regional Commander for Scotland up, it is expected its capacity would be at and Northern Ireland, Captain Chris “I am trying to promote a fresh take on least 50% greater than Dens Park, which “While he enjoys attention from visitors Smith, said as descendants of the victims the tradition by bringing it into theatre can hold 11,500 fans. A formal planning and loves to have his photo taken, Bobby of the HMS Vanguard tragedy marked and film and through collaborating with application is then expected to be submitted gets distressed when people rub his nose. 100 years since sinking of the Royal international artists. Step dance is a to the local authority in December. It really does cause damage to the statue, Navy’s worst wartime accident. HMS natural response to music. If you can feel which is why we urge people to be respectful. Vanguard exploded and sank off Orkney the music, it is normal to want to dance to “This document will help inform the debate We always request the city’s statues and with the loss of 843 lives in 1917. it. For me, it’s like playing along to the tunes on preparing for the proposed railway monuments are treated respectfully, and with your feet. Step dance is not intended through the Scottish Borders to Carlisle it’s great so many local people agree.” “The assumption has always been that to be a spectacle. Whether it’s on stage, there was nothing left at Burghead, that as part of social dance or just jamming CLUES ACROSS it was all trashed in the 19th century but along at a session, it’s about responding 1 Scotland’s Playground (7,4) nobody’s really looked at the interior to the music and being part of the music, SCOTWORD 9 Village 3 miles south of Lochmaben (7) to see if there’s anything that survives like a musician. I teach my students the 10 Old Scots wall linings (7) inside the fort. But beneath the 19th basic traditional steps. How they put these Here is a fun crossword for you to try with a few 11 The gift of speech! (3) of the answers to be found in Scotland! If you 12 Italians by Scots (7) century debris, we have started to find together to express themselves is up to are in doubt, you may need a wee peek at a Scots 13 Run of the mill (7) significant Pictish remains. We appear them. I believe there is a lot of potential for 14 Provider of warmth (3) to have found a Pictish longhouse. step dance to be further integrated within dictionary or a map. Or, if you are really stuck, 15 But never last! (5) This is important because Burghead traditional music in Scotland. We have a the answers can be found on page 23! 17 Old hands! (5) 18 Referee (5) is likely to have been one of the key vibrant trad scene with sessions, cèilidhs, 1 2 3 4 5 6 20 Regimental alternative to kilts (5) royal centres of Northern Pictland and festivals and touring musicians. Step dance 22 Play 1 Across and get one (3) understanding the nature of settlement has a place in all of these contexts and is 7 8 24 Prettier in Scotland (7) within the fort is key to understanding accessible to anyone who wants to learn.” 25 Erica’s flower (7) 9 10 26 North-east flower! (3) how power was materialised within 11 27 Scotland’s emblem (7) these important fortified sites.” Scottish step dance expert Sophie 28 Red cents! (7) Stephenson who is helping keep the ancient 12 13 29 A glen in the Trossachs (11) The University of Aberdeen’s Senior Gaelic tradition of step dancing relevant in st CLUES ACROSS lecturer Dr Gordon Noble said as 21 century Scotland. Step dancing was 14 15 16 17 archaeologists have uncovered popular in Scotland in the 18th century 1 Colourful games attraction (8,7) 2 A Village 3 miles south of Crieff (7) important new details of a Pictish and Scots who left took the custom with 3 The last of the drink (5) settlement at Burghead Fort. Evidence them where in places such as the Canadian 18 19 20 21 22 23 4 Village 1 mile south of Dalkeith (9) of a longhouse has been found at the Maritimes it still flourishes today. The dance 5 Deer tops! (7) site, near Lossiemouth in Moray, along had its Scottish revival about 20 years ago and 6 Low range east of Dumbarton (10, 5.) 24 25 7 Wishaw location sounds like gunfire(6) with a coin which is 1,100 years old. is today being incorporated in trad-music 8 Wee islands (6) It is thought the Burghead Fort was event and workshops and being taught at 26 16 The ship’s back (9) a significant seat of power within the the University of the Highlands and Islands. 27 28 18 Highland Dress accessories (6) Pictish kingdom, between AD500 and Sophie hopes to introduce more Scots to 19 Old correspondence (7) 21 Marine winger (7) AD1000. The university team, which the ancient dance and keep this aspect of 29 23 Religious district (6) have been digging at the site since 2015, Scottish culture alive not only in Scotland but 25 Long-legged kin of 21 Down (5) hope to find more items in the future. also in parts of Europe and North America.

Page 6 • North American Edition • September 2017 THE SCOTTISH BANNER By: Ron Dempsey WHAT’S IN A NAME? Have a name that has you stumped? Scottish Banner readers can send in their name queries direct to Ron via the Scottish Banner via our website, by post or email: [email protected]. Ron will do his best to help you with your name query and may just add that extra piece to your genealogy puzzle.

arriving in the 12th and 13th century. The Last on the list is Whytelaw. The surname Old English “kin” element added to denote is from a place name, for the lands of a younger person or as progeny of a John. Whitelaw in the parish of Morebattle in Translated it would be read as “little john.” Roxburghshire. “Law” the last element of Earliest recording of the surname in the name usually means a hill in Scots so Scotland is 1565. the name is quite generic when as white hill Next name is Lennie from the lands of read. John de Whytelaw rendered homage Leny, parish of Callander, in Perthshire. to King Edward I in 1296 as many nobles in One John de Leny had the surname when Scotland did. Spellings over the centuries witnessing a charter in 1270. Another form included Quitelaw, Quytelaw and Whitlau s you read this know that there are it is in fact a variation of Bullar a non- of the name may have originated from etc. Thank you Mr. Campbell for that list. only a few more weeks of summer complimentary name. It is from the Old Linay, a land name in Ronaldsay, Orkney. here in the north left, so enjoy French bole or boule for one who as a fraud Rob Lenay was mentioned there in 1576. Scottish surnames yourself. Our summer was very of deceptive. Bullar a name at one time for Not all Scottish surnames have a tartan Agood because our local Scottish festival one who printed false bulls or leaflets. I do Whytelaw or a clan but that doesn’t make them any was revived this summer after taking a year see some families of that name on the 1841 From the very French sounding name Gaston less Scottish. There are so many origins off to reorganize. We knew that it may be census in Dunbartonshire. we find, it has been in Roxborough for of Scottish surnames. Flemish, Viking, scaled down a bit and it was but that didn’t centuries. A Hendrie Gastoun was mentioned Scottish Gaelic, Norman French. French stop a great crowd coming to support it. It Jenkin in the region in 1567. Possibly it has the that came in the entourage of Mary Queen just shows that where there are people with As mentioned in the August issue of the French connection for one being a native of of Scots, and English. Yes, English, Scots a smidgen of Scottish DNA they will gather Scottish Banner, Mr. Lindsay Campbell of Gascony in France. However, English sources “Inglis” was a language for over a thousand to enjoy the pipes, food, and dancing. Our Upper Hutt, New Zealand wrote to us with have it as variation of Garston for one who is years in Scotland before the union in 1707 summer here in Ontario, Canada tended an extensive list of surnames which caught a dweller near a grass enclosure. after which it became fashionable to speak to be wet with rain as happens every so his eye. Mr. Campbell was researching family Mack as a surname would seem to be a London English and regulated Inglis to the often. So I used those wet days to do some history in the parochial registers of Dunoon name that would identify someone as a true five major dialects in Scotland. genealogical endeavours. By helping out and Kilmun where he came across entries Scot. It is in fact a Border name primarily Therefore you should know by now others I am finding tricks to better the of surnames that he found interesting. in Berwickshire. Recorded as early as 1424 that we love hearing from you so drop us a organization of my own family research. Although these names weren’t necessarily as “Makke”. Thought to be a Scandinavian line or an e mail and ask about that family in his own family, he felt that they should be word which was originally “Makr” or “Maki.” surnames that has you curious. The Chinese Pedigree chart addressed in this column to which I agree. Gaelic influence may have the name from have a saying: “May you live in interesting Firstly, I fill in a pedigree chart with my First on this month’s list is the name a place name in Yorkshire named Macwra, times.” sounds like a good plan to me. I can ancestors giving birth, marriage and Jenkin. A variation of the forename John. which would be equivalent to MacGraw, only add, may your September be one that death dates and places. Each person has a “Jun” or “Jen” is the Flemish form probably MacRath or MacRae meaning son of Grace. you can tell your grand “weans” about. number: 1. For yourself 2. For your father and 3. For your mother etc. Then each ancestor and their numbers has a separate file where I keep copies of those births, marriages, deaths certificates and any Iolaire tragedy remembered other documents pertaining to their lives as the first time. The site includes artistic well as photographs. This I do for everyone responses to the tragedy, including poetry on the tree. Lastly, I make a summary list and early 20th century Gaelic songs. of individuals with their numbers and list In his interview, John Macleod recalls what certificates I have for them. So I can the waste of it all. “These men did not die see at a glance what I have for a person and heroically in war. They were killed by colossal of course what I still need without going carelessness and human error. A ship ran through reams of documents. I hope this aground in not really bad weather conditions helps you. I find this gratifying to be able on a notorious reef well off the main shipping to wade through all data without getting line by utterly incompetent officers.” overwhelmed by paperwork. Alice Heywood, Learning Officer at the National library of Scotland who Bouglas has worked on the development of the We have some interesting names to look ewly digitised material being are full of lamentation - grief that cannot website said “The site aims to give visitors at this month. Ms. Elizabeth Aitken from made available for the first time be comforted,” reported The Scotsman on a starting point in looking at the impact somewhere in Australia asked about the to tell the story of one of the January 6, 1919. “Carts in little processions the tragedy had on both the community Border surname Bouglas. Ms. Aitken worst ever disasters in Scottish of twos and threes, each bearing its coffin of the time and what we can learn from it suggested that the name maybe a variation Nhistory. The story of the worst peacetime from the mortuary, pass through the streets today. It includes contributions from the of the name Douglas and I have to admit I shipping disaster since the Titanic, when of Stornoway on their way to some rural community on the Isle of Lewis and related was wondering if it was a typo. It is in fact 205 soldiers returning from WWI died village, and all heads are bared as they pass.” items in the Library’s collection to provide a Border name sometimes spelled Buglass within sight of Stornoway harbour, is being So many people died that the island ran an overview of events on that fateful day.” or Bookless for lands in the Melrose, remembered at the National Library of out of coffins and they had to be brought in The website can be found at Roxburghshire. Historically known as Scotland. A new website has been created from elsewhere to bury the dead. www.digital.nls.uk/learning/iolaire Booklawes or Bukelaws. One suggestion to raise awareness of the tragic events is that it was from buck laws or stag hills. of New Year’s Day in 1919, ahead of the Reflections on the disaster Another is from the Gaelic “buidh glas 100th anniversary of the disaster. It was The dual language Gaelic/English website meaning yellow and blue/gray”. The oldest described by the Stornoway Gazette as “the features reflections on the disaster record of the name 1220. blackest day in the history of the island.” from descendants of both survivors The men were aboard the HMY Iolaire and those who perished, together with Bullard and looking forward to being reunited video interviews with John Macleod, Again from Australia, Mr. David Sheridan with loved ones when the ship struck rocks author of When I Heard the Bell - The asks about a name on his maternal side, called the Beasts of Holm, at the entrance Loss of the Iolaire. The story is also told Bullard. While not a Scottish name in to Stornoway Harbour. There were only through historical newspapers, maps and derivation it is found in Scotland at various 79 survivors. Scarcely a family was left documentary sources in both Gaelic and stages of our history. One might suspect untouched in the close-knit communities of English. Some of these have been newly that it is from bull-herd or bull-ward but Lewis and Harris. “The homes of the island digitised and made widely available for

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He had a sister Elizabeth, born about 1868 and a brother, William, Keith in Scotland and we have been over to Recently we attended the Weary Dunlop who also emigrated to Grafton, NSW Scotland before and would love to return. Foundation Service in Melbourne, it was (Australia), where they went into business I would also like to give my the 110th Anniversary of his birth. The together. William died on 7 November in Taken in our backyard in Canada. sincere congratulations on Valerie’s Guest Speaker was Air Chief Marshal Grafton when George was 46 years of age. Theresa & François Ouellette retirement, may she enjoy it. Sir Angus Houston, AK, AFC (Ret’d) and George lived in St Andrew, Angus in 1871 Toronto, Ontario Mrs C Bruce the Dunlop Appeal was launched by and was a third class engineer. He married Canada Jennings, NSW the Hon Kelly O’Dwyer, MP, Minister Catherine Susannah Venador (French) Australia for Revenue and Financial Services. 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be inspired to get involved. The project implements the Cairngorms Capercaillie Framework, a blueprint for a strategic approach to saving the capercaillie from going extinct in the UK through targeting The capercaillie future management at a landscape scale. We hope to develop a programme of conservation action to support the long- term survival of the species and provide a model to save ‘at risk’ species in National Parks around the world.” Sue Haysom, Policy and Advice Officer with Scottish Natural Heritage, said: “Vital conservation work such as establishing rich feeding areas for adults and chicks, promoting woodland creation in the right locations to increase habitat, and carrying out targeted predator control around breeding sites has already brought benefits. Now we need to build on this with energy and innovative approaches developed by experts and local communities to ensure that future generations can experience this magnificent bird.” Saving a Scottish icon The RSPB’s surveyors walked nearly 1000 miles of “transects” 2km-long lines Photos courtesy of RSPB. Photos through woodland throughout the species’ Scotland’s iconic bird, the capercaillie, is again under threat and is now one of Scotland’s most endangered species. range - looking for and recording the birds. The capercaillie population has declined so rapidly that it is at a very real risk of extinction (for the second The latest survey of capercaillie is the fifth time) and is a ‘Red List’ species. However the largest nature conservation charity in the country has tramped national survey of the species. 1000 miles across the forests of the Highlands to document the species and are now looking to put together a five-year plan in the Cairngorms to try to help the capercaillie survive in Scotland as Judy Vickers explains.

hey have been dubbed Scotland’s capercaillie population has fluctuated by the 1970s, with numbers around 20,000 unluckiest bird. The capercaillie, between 1000 and 2000 birds since the they appeared to be a success story. But the world’s largest grouse and first national survey in the 1990s, but they numbers began to plummet again, one of the country’s most iconic it’s now very much at the low end of this falling to below 1000 in 1999. Tanimals, first became extinct in Scotland in scale. Capercaillie are restricted to only Conservation steps were put into place the 18th century – along with the wolf – as a few areas of the country and most are and numbers edged towards 2000 by its forest habitats were felled. found in Strathspey, which highlights the 2003-4 but the last RSPB survey – they are But the birds, with their distinctive importance of innovative conservation carried out every six years – put numbers “clicking” call, were reintroduced in 1837 work in this area, in partnership with at 1285 and this latest investigation shows from Swedish stock and numbers had others, for their population to recover.” another drop. reached 20,000 by the 1960s, putting them Conservation scientists believe the again at the heart of Scotland’s natural Native bird main reasons for the fall are relatively low heritage – one of the country’s most The giant birds – the males are around 4kg levels of breeding success and an increase Did you know? famous folk bands is named after the bird. in weight with slate-grey plumage and a in deaths from collisions with deer - The capercaillies found in Scottish However, the population of the bird, bright red eye ring - are fairly elusive, often fences. Fences can be marked, lowered or woodlands are the biggest species which lives in mature pine woodlands sitting quietly in pine trees or on the forest removed but improving the birds’ breeding of grouse in the world. in the Highlands, has been tumbling floor. In spring, however, they can be seen rate is a tougher challenge. - All capercaillie in Scotland are in recent years and the latest survey of gathering at communal ‘leks’ where the Breeding success is badly affected by high from Swedish stock, as the species numbers by the Royal Society for the males go to ‘strut their stuff’ in the hopes rainfall in June, when the chicks hatch, and became extinct in Scotland in Protection of Birds (RSPB), Britain’s bird of attracting a mate. The males have an by predators such as pine martens and foxes 1785. The population has halved protection charity, estimates that there are amazing song they use at leks which is a which eat the eggs and chicks. The number in recent years and a variety of only 1114 individuals left, making it one of series of ‘cliks’ ending in a loud ‘pop’ – one of chicks capercaillie raise is only relatively threats including habitat loss and the country’s most endangered birds. of the reasons why the bird is so iconic; high when both of these factors are low but, fragmentation, birds flying into they are also very aggressive towards rival unfortunately, wetter summers have become deer fencing and chick mortality The Cairngorms birds and fighting at leks is common. more frequent and the small size and due to wet and cool weather now Capercaillie Project Its name is a corruption of the Scottish fragmented nature of the forests these birds face this species. Now an innovative five year plan, the Gaelic capull coille, meaning cock of the inhabit allow easier access to predators. - Capercaillie size: Male weight: Cairngorms Capercaillie Project, is being wood. Globally the bird is found in the over 4 kg. Female weight: up to 2 developed to help the bird to survive and mountain forests and boreal regions of Reducing disturbance kg. Male body length: 74 – 90 cm. escape a second extinction. Spearheaded Scandinavia, central Europe, northern Asia of capercaillie Wingspan: 87 – 125 cm. by the Cairngorms Nature Partnership, and Siberia but in Britain it is only found in There is also growing evidence that human - Females lay 5-12 eggs in a nest on the scheme will work closely with the north of Scotland. disturbance can be an issue as it causes the ground and they take 28 days to communities to build support for the A native bird, it was once common capercaillie to avoid using large areas of hatch. Females look after the chicks conservation of capercaillie, as well as in Scotland but as its pine forest homes otherwise suitable woodland – limiting the by themselves and chicks are able to aiming to create bigger, better managed were cut down, it became rarer and rarer potential for population recovery. So key fly after a couple of weeks. and better connected forests to support – the last pair were reputedly shot for a to the new five-year plan’s success will be long-term survival of capercaillie and other royal wedding banquet at Balmoral. The partnerships with National Park communities; - Adult birds eat shoots and buds species in pine woods. Capercaillie are Earl of Fife attempted to reintroduce the local residents will help the project team design of conifer trees and a wide variety found in mature pine woodlands in parts capercaillie for sport at Mar Lodge in Upper sensible approaches to improve recreational of berries. Young chicks feed on of the Highlands, Moray, Aberdeenshire Deeside in the early 19th century but it opportunities for locals and visitors while the insects they find in the ground and Perthshire, but Strathspey – where the was Lord Breadalbane who successfully reducing disturbance of capercaillie. vegetation. Cairngorms are located - holds around brought the birds back in 1837 at Taymouth Andy Ford, Cairngorms Nature - Capercaillies also can be found in 83% of the remaining population. Castle using Scandinavian stock. The bird Manager, said: “People are key to securing Spain, central Europe, Scandinavia Nick Wilkinson, Conservation Scientist was then reintroduced into pine woods in the future of capercaillie in the National and across Russia to northern Asia. for RSPB Scotland, said: “The country’s various parts of the north of Scotland and Park. We want to empower people to

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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.

never had the vitality and character that was held up and brought to a standstill at made tramcars exciting and attractive to Pollokshields, at the very point where there us and that brought about fond memories was one of the tram depots. that endured into our adulthoods. They did not even have the noise and sway of Glasgow’s citizens loved a bus. This cross between a tramcar and their tramcars a bus meant that they were neither fish There were crowds of people lining the nor fowl. They had some of the same streets as some of the tramcars destined to restrictions of operation as the tramcar become exhibits in the transport museum but were not as flexible as a bus. They passed into the depot at Albert Drive. By were also brandished with the unfortunate accident, and not by design, our group nickname, ‘the silent deaths’ because of ended up with box seats, upstairs on their ability to sneak up quietly upon the bus, watching part of the historical unsuspecting pedestrians crossing procession of Glasgow’s tramcars. Neither Glasgow’s busy streets. They were Jean nor I remember anything about the introduced in April 1949 and left the jazz concert. It may have been Acker Bilk Corporation’s service, ignominiously, in or Kenny Ball performing that night but we May 1967. That was not the case when do remember that last procession of trams. Glasgow’s beloved tramcars were taken I had always enjoyed travelling on out of service. Glasgow’s tramcars as a boy but now that The last tram, the No.9 Auchenshuggle I was a youth I was still to learn how much to Dalmuir West, travelling at a maximum I would miss them from our streets. All by a foot tramp. There was another foot speed of 8 miles per hour, ended its service Glasgow’s citizens loved their tramcars, The Last Tram tramp used to release sand, sometimes at the beginning of September 1962. and Jean and I now value the fact that th But ye Cannae go tae heaven on a Number 3 car, required to improve traction whilst Following that on the 4 September 1962, we inadvertently joined 250,000 other For a number 3 car, don’t go that far. braking or when the rails were wet, a historical selection of Glasgow’s tramcars Glaswegians who came out that night, in A Glasgow University student song. (The number 3 greasy or iced up. Both tramps were made its way through the city, for the last a carnival atmosphere, to farewell them in travelled through Mosspark to Glasgow University) sunk into holes in the floor. But today time. It so happened I was travelling into style. They had become a familiar symbol the weather was fine and our tramcar the city to go to a jazz concert, with my of stability in old Glasgow. They well The adult passengers on our tram had finally lurched to a standstill. We had girlfriend, Jean, and some of our friends. deserved our thanks for their long and travelled aboard tramcars all of their reached our destination, the terminus We had not been thinking about the final valued service to the city and if Glasgow’s lives but few had ever asked themselves at Auchenshuggle. Our conductor procession, for with the arrogance of city fathers and other citizens had known how they worked or what half of the immediately dashed upstairs to change youth, we had more important things to then, what they know now, they or their paraphernalia on them was for. Yet much the destination blinds and turn all the do. As fate would have it our number 23 successors would still be ‘shoogling’ along of a tramcar’s technology was open and swing back seats and backrests over to the bus travelling from Pollok to Broomielaw on Glasgow’s cobbled streets. exposed for all to see. That was part opposite way for the return journey. As we of what made them interesting for us left, he then dashed downstairs again to children to look at and to ride on. release the trolley rope from the dash rail to give a strong pull on the rope to swing Date set for Queensferry Crossing Tramcars had charisma the trolley pole around and on to the Glasgow’s electric trams had survived ‘down’ wire for the return trip to be opened by The Queen three wars and the economic depressions As we looked tentatively around us of the 1920’s and 1930’s. They dominated at Auchenshuggle the tram driver was the city’s streets and captured our making some changes. He brought the imaginations; for a 17 ton vehicle that small brass reversing handle, the air clangs, rumbles and rattles along to its brake handles and the larger one used fixed destinations upon steel rails, giving to regulate the speed of the motors off sparks, could readily do that. Tramcars from the rear to the front of the tram. had charisma. They had personality and He then fitted these back on to the character and their journeys had the controller for the return journey whilst the added attractions of requiring all sorts of conductor reset the circuit breaker. After he Queensferry Crossing will be have been involved in the construction of procedures to be undertaken and things checking the pressure on his air brakes officially opened by Her Majesty The the new bridge. The Queensferry Crossing to be done to them all along the way. the driver, standing erect, pushed the Queen on 4 September 2017. The is a symbol of a confident, forward-looking Blue sparks often shot between the small handle on the controller, his other new bridge opens to traffic for the Scotland and – as well as providing a vital bare copper wires of the overhead cable hand on the air brake, and the tramcar Tfirst time on 30 August, prior to closing on transport connection for many years to and the long pole fixed to the roof of the started running again, Meanwhile, the 2-3 September for the Queensferry Crossing come – it is a truly iconic structure and a tramcars. The pole itself carried a small conductor put a card into a clock-like Experience, when 50,000 members of the feat of modern engineering.” metal trolley or stud that was arranged device to clock-in their departure time. public have the unique opportunity to The 1.7 mile Queensferry Crossing – the to press against the live suspended wire By now we were taking in the sights of walk across the bridge – following a ballot world’s longest three-tower, cable-stayed and run smoothly along under the cable’s our special destination, Auchenshuggle. that attracted almost 250,000 entries. On 5 bridge – is set to be delivered at a cost of surface. In spite of this, there were times Disappointingly there was practically September, an additional ‘community day’ £1.35 billion, £245 million under the original when the trolleys in the older tramcars nothing there of interest. The magic was has been added, giving up to 10,000 more budget. Following the inception of plans would suddenly leave the wire and bring indeed in the name and not the place, so people from local schools and community for a new bridge in 2007, construction the tramcar to an unscheduled standstill. we made our way instead up to Alexandra groups on both sides of the Forth the chance commenced in June 2011 and the project has Then the conductor, with a quiet curse, Park and the Monkland Canal instead. to walk on the bridge. From 6 September involved more than 15,000 people, including had to get out and use a big wooden pole onwards the bridge will re-open to traffic the creation of 1,200 jobs in the local area, to re-connect the trolley to the wire. To Trolleybuses with no pedestrian access. with thousands more indirectly employed. solve this problem, later trams were fitted Glasgow was late in introducing with bow collectors which allowed a wider trolleybuses to its streets but the routes Iconic structure The Queensferry Crossing in numbers: area of contact. grew quickly. As youngsters we used to First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said: - 23,000 miles of cables, almost enough seek them out just for the novelty of riding “It is very fitting that the Queensferry to wrap around the earth’s equator. Auchenshuggle on one. That interest did not last for long. Crossing will be officially opened by The - 35,000 tonnes of steel, the equivalent To give notice of our tramcar’s approach We soon discovered that trolleybuses Queen, exactly 53 years to the day from of 80 Boeing 747s. there was a heavy gong fixed under the were like castrated tramcars. They were when she opened the Forth Road Bridge. - 207 metres in height above high tide – 50 footman’s platform. This was struck by tramcars without the sparks, the rattle Importantly, this celebratory event will metres taller than the Forth Road Bridge means of a heavy clapper pressed down and the noise of steel upon steel. They recognise the thousands of people who and 97 metres more than the rail bridge.

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Pollock Country Park the Jacobite Trail spans 26 properties and While Doune Castle takes on the role of Castle attractions throughout the country whose Leoch, it’s Pollok Country Park that doubles history is intertwined with Bonnie Prince as the grounds surrounding the fictional Charlie and the Jacobites. site. Situated near Glasgow, the extensive woodland area is great for walks and an ideal Bonnie Prince Charlie and the Jacobites place to visit for all levels of mountain biking. This new exhibition at the National Museum of Scotland explores the real Preston Mill story of Prince Charles Edward Stuart The peaceful setting of Preston Mill and the rise and fall of the Jacobites. provides the backdrop for a number of More than 300 spectacular objects scenes during the Jacobite Risings.Located including paintings, costumes, jewellery, in the village of East Linton, East Lothian, documents, weapons and glassware will Preston Mill is one of the oldest, working, bring to life the events of this turbulent water-driven meal mills in the country. period in European history. Culross Palace and Gardens in the Royal Burgh of Culross in Fife. Today, visitors can see and hear the mill Photo: VisitScotland/Kenny Lam. mechanisms in action and learn about the Prestonpans Battlefield 1745 millers who worked there. & Bankton Doocot utlander season three is about your own adventure, here are some of the best Visit the site of the famous Battle of to hit viewers around the world Outlander-inspired locations and experiences Outlander-inspired adventures Prestonpans 1745, where Bonnie Prince and the hit show recently had its every fan should try the below locations. Outlander dramatises one of the most Charlie won his first victory. Visitor can long-awaited premiere on UK bloody chapters in Scottish history, the then explore the site of the battle on foot Omainstream television, and while viewers Fan-friendly filming locations Jacobite Risings - an attempt by Charles and discover three stone monuments. fall in love with the story, Scotland’s Edward Stuart, better known as Bonnie Smartphone users can also download a free Kinloch Rannoch starring role in the show is also likely Prince Charlie, to regain the British throne mobile App to guide you are around the site. Nestled in the shadow of Schiehallion, on to capture hearts. Numerous stunning for the exiled House of Stuart. Today, the banks of the River Tummel, lies the Scottish locations, such as Doune Castle, during the Year of History, Heritage and West Highland Museum pretty village of Kinloch Rannoch and the Linlithgow Palace and the Highland Folk Archaeology 2017, many attractions, At theWest Highland Museumin Fort surrounding Rannoch Moor. The idyllic Museum provide the backdrop for the tours and experiences bring to life the William, you can see the Bonnie Prince’s location is the backdrop for Claire and television adaptation of author Diana momentous events of that era and allow you death mask, sword, and some of his Frank’s second honeymoon and is a fantastic Gabaldon’s, time-travelling love story. to delve deeper into the real-life experiences clothing, including his fine silk waistcoat, example of Scotland’s magical landscapes. Based on the best-selling novels, that inspired Diana Gabaldon’s story. as well as other Jacobite artefacts. Outlander follows the story of Claire Doune Castle For more Outlander inspiration and Randall (played by Caitriona Balfe), a Many film and TV fans will already be The Jacobite Trail to download VisitScotland’s dedicated married English combat nurse from 1945 familiar with the formidable sight of From Brodie Castle in Moray Speyside to Outlander Film locations map visit who, while on her second honeymoon Doune Castle, which graced the screen the Palace of Holyroodhouse in Edinburgh, www.visitscotland.com/outlander in Inverness, is mysteriously swept back in Monty Python and the Holy Grail. It in time to the 18th-century Scottish also takes a starring role in Outlander, Highlands. There she meets Jamie (played substituting for the fictional Castle Leoch – by Scottish actor Sam Heughan), a home to Colum MacKenzie and his clan in chivalrous young warrior, with whom she the 18th century. You may also spot a 20th becomes romantically entwined. century version of the site which is visited The blockbuster fantasy show, along with by Claire and Frank on a day trip. With the successful books, have inspired a range of its striking 100ft high gatehouse, the 14th tours and catapulted the real-life attractions century courtyard castle is one of the best and places from the series into the spotlight. preserved great halls in Scotland. Jenni Steele, Film and Creative Culross Industries Manager at VisitScotland, Step back in time and enjoy a glimpse of said “The fact that the hugely popular Outlander series is both set and filmed Scotland from a different era with a visit to October 21st & 22nd, 2017 on location in Scotland has been great for the pretty village of Culross. With its historic Mercat Cross and well preserved buildings, tourism. Claire and Jamie’s relationship Attend “The Friendly Games.” may take centre-stage on screen but the Fife village doubles for the fictional Scotland’s sweeping scenery, romantic Cranesmuir, while behind the stunning Meet your fellow clansmen and celebrate the 45th Anniversary Culross Palace you’ll find the filming location games along with our Honored guests and many old friends who castles and fascinating history are far will gather in this picturesque setting so rich in heritage. from just the support act, helping attract of Claire’s herb garden at Castle Leoch. thousands of visitors to our shores. As Falkland Scottish Festival & Highland Games the show airs for the first time on UK The Fife village doubles for the northern Atlanta, Georgia and Stone Mountain Park Meadow October 21st & 22nd, 2017 | 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. mainstream television we look forward to city of Inverness in some of the first scenes introducing a new wave of fans to Scotland, of the Outlander series. Enjoy a stroll Highland Games the land that inspired Outlander.” Children’s Games around the village centre where you’ll Gathering of Clans So whether it’s following in the fictional recognise a number of local shops, each Exhibits footsteps of Claire and Jamie or embarking on transformed on screen into 1940s stores Demonstrations Scottish Shops & Foods and guesthouses.Falkland is best-known Pipe Bands for its Palace. The royal dwelling was once Scottish Dancing the country residence of the Stewart kings Scottish Harping & Fiddling Scottish Musical Entertainment and queens as they hunted deer and wild boar in the forests of Fife. Adult (Sat.) $20, (Sun.) $18 | Child (4-12) $6 Bo’ness & Kinneil Railway Park vehicle entrance fee required in addition to event tickets. No pets allowed. The popular West Lothian attraction is almost unrecognisable when transformed Presented by into a busy wartime London railway station Stone Mountain Highland Games, Inc. for Claire and Frank’s goodbyes in series 1. P.O. Box 384 • Marietta, GA 30061 Home to Scotland’s largest railway museum, 2017 | 45TH ANNIVERSARY Numerous Scottish locations, like Doune Castle (770) 521-0228 • www.SMHG.org the charity-run heritage railway offers in Perthshire, feature in the smash-hit TV series ©All rights reserved Stone Mountain Highland Games, Inc. 2017 Outlander. Photo: VisitScotland/Paul Tomkins. visitors the chance to journey by steam train.

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By: Lady Fiona Lady MacGregor’s Scotland MacGregor Lady MacGregor of MacGregor – otherwise known as British broadcaster Fiona Armstrong. Fiona is currently news reading for the BBC. But she also leaves the studio from time to time to report on matters Scottish. She lives in Scotland with her husband, the MacGregor clan chief. Sir Malcolm is Convenor of the Standing Council of Scottish Chiefs, and Fiona is an active member of Clan Armstrong, so their lives are interwoven with all things tartan. The couple have moved from the borderlands to the lowlands, home is now a white tower house between Perth and Dundee, although filming and writing takes Fiona all over Scotland.

gloriously green, and white and purple To soak up all that alcohol you will, of pipe bands, brass bands, giant thistles and Sir Malcolm MacGregor heather clings to silvery grey hillsides. course, need some food – and the nearby barley bannocks all adding to the festive and Lady Fiona MacGregor fishing on the River Spey. This is a real Highland morning. It is not town of Aberlour is home to a famous feel as locals celebrate another year of quite autumn, but there is still a slight chill brand of biscuit. If the wind is in the right marking proud Borderland traditions. and a haze on the horizon. As the day goes direction you can smell the baking as you Finally, there is the piping concert we reetings from the Highlands on, the mist will clear from the mountains pass by. The Walkers Shortbread business attend near Dumfries. It marks the end of where I am perched on the and the sun will peep through the clouds. was started in 1898 when Joseph Walker a week-long course for youngsters who grass by the River Spey. The For despite an early nip in the air, this opened a bakery with a loan of just a few want to learn to play the bagpipes – and water is a good height and the place has a relatively mild climate. Indeed, dollars. Then he used a horse and cart to some of them have the makings of being GMacGregor is on the bank, casting a long it has been called the ‘Riviera of the North’. deliver his moreish wares. By the 1960s very good, indeed. As a special treat one line across the stream. Yesterday one of There is perhaps some exaggeration the firm had a fleet of fourteen vans and of the course tutors, a piping expert, plays our fishing party landed a twenty-three there! This is Scotland. No matter: at least today, these sweet offerings in their tartan The Young MacGregor, a complicated tune pound salmon, so we have high hopes of the midges are missing today. Then a red packaging are put on ships and planes to written for my husband’s father when he catching something for the pot… squirrel leaps from the branches of an be sold all over the world. was just thirteen years old. I am told it was Angling is vitally important to the ancient Douglas Fir and a hatch of gaudy Whisky and shortbread. It is all very composed in 1938 by a Scots Guards pipe- Scottish economy. It brings in fishermen flies floats across the water. A kestrel flies Scottish. And, to be honest, this month major. And so I learn something new. The and women from all over the world. If you silently overhead scanning the ground for has been very Scottish. First of all, the Scots Guards piping book is said to be the take into account the amount of money something good to eat. chief and I visit the Lochearnhead Games bible of the piping world. It is the chief’s they spend in local hotels, restaurants and in Perthshire where the MacGregors and former regiment. How good is that?! shops each silvery salmon that is hooked Morayshire MacLarens hold sway and where the But back to the river. So far the is said to be worth thousands of dollars to This is Morayshire – and it is a whisky tug-of-war is one of the star attractions. MacGregor has had no luck. Then that is the local area. region with eight distilleries within a What fun it is to watch lines of kilted men angling for you: incessant expectation and seventy-mile radius. Nearest to us is the digging in and holding on for dear life, perpetual disappointment. Perhaps I will The Riviera of the North MacCallan, a famously delicious malt. A before being dragged across the grass… have to have a go myself. After all, everyone The Spey is one of our premier rivers. little further down the road is the Aberlour knows we ladies catch the biggest fish! Until Dark, wide, rushing – and breathtakingly distillery, its smoothness no doubt fed by The Young MacGregor the next time, I wish you tight lines… beautiful, especially at this time of year. numerous surrounding golden fields of Then there is the annual Langholm Mossy banks are covered with blue and barley. If you come here one of these days Common Riding: two hundred horses and Follow the MacGregor clan chief, Sir yellow wildflowers. Feathery ferns cover – and I do hope you do – take the Speyside their riders thronging the streets of this Malcolm MacGregor of MacGregor, rocky mounds. Rowan trees are heavy Malt Whisky Trail – and get yourself a driver small Borderland town; proclamations Convenor of the Standing Council of with fat orange berries. The trees are still so you can have a dram or two on the way… being thundered out in the town square; Scottish Chiefs, on twitter.com/theclanchiefs The Galloway Hoard-Viking objects on display and save it for the people of Scotland. The unusual objects: beads; amulets of glass Queen’s and Lord Treasurer’s Remembrancer and rock crystal; pilgrimage relics; a silver (QLTR) has kindly granted us permission to penannular brooch; another rare gold put a selection of the Hoard on short-term ingot; five Anglo-Saxon disc brooches of display to support our fundraising campaign. a kind not found in Scotland before; and I would encourage everyone to come along jewelled aestels, pointers used to read and to the National Museum of Scotland to enjoy mark places within medieval manuscripts. a first glimpse of this outstanding Viking-age silver. There is not much time and we are Rare opportunity seeking the public’s support in saving this Other finds from around Britain or Ireland extraordinary treasure.” have been exceptional for a single type of object—for example, silver brooches or Viking-age hoard armlets. However, the Galloway Hoard is The Hoard brings together the richest unique in bringing together a remarkable collection of rare and unique Viking-age variety of objects in one discovery, hinting objects ever found in Britain or Ireland. at hitherto unknown connections between It is of international significance and people across Europe and beyond. It also ollowing allocation of the Galloway National Museums will put a selection will transform our understanding of this contains objects which have never before Hoard to National Museums of items from this unparalleled find on period of Scottish history. Uncovered been discovered in a hoard of this age. Scotland by the Queen’s and Lord temporary display at the National Museum of by a metal detectorist in Dumfries and Incredibly, fragile textiles, leather and Treasurer’s Remembrancer (QLTR), Scotland until 1 October 2017. The items are Galloway, the Galloway Hoard comprises wooden fragments have also survived, Fpart of the Hoard has gone on display for on loan from the QLTR and will give visitors a in excess of 100 gold, silver and other providing an extremely to research and Photos from the Galloway Hoard. ©National Museums Scotland. Museums ©National Hoard. the Galloway from Photos a short period as part of a fundraising first glimpse of this unique hoard of Viking- items from the Viking Age. It was buried reveal many lost aspects of the Viking Age. campaign to raise the necessary £1.98 age gold, silver and jewelled treasures. at the beginning of the tenth century, The Galloway Hoard is on display at the million to save it for the nation. although some of the items within the National Museum of Scotland, Chambers Delicate conservation Hoard date from an earlier period. Street, Edinburgh until 1st October 2017. The treasures on display have not yet been The bulk of the find is a rich Viking- For details see: www.nms.ac.uk fully cleaned or conserved. The fragile age hoard of silver jewellery and ingots. nature of many of the items in the Hoard However, it also contains an outstanding as a whole, means a rigorous process of range of exceptional precious metal and review and delicate conservation work will jewelled items including a rare gold ingot, be necessary before the long term display a gold bird-shaped pin and a decorated of individual items can be planned. silver-gilt cup of Continental or Byzantine Dr Gordon Rintoul, Director of National origin. The cup is carefully wrapped in Museums Scotland said, “We have only textiles and is the only complete lidded months in which to raise the necessary funds vessel of its type ever discovered in Britain to acquire this spectacular treasure hoard or Ireland. This vessel contains further

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By: Andrew Morrison, Viscount Dunrossil Chairman, Society of Scottish Armigers Arms, Armigers and an Armorial It is a fact that most people who about a clan or family from looking at identify as Scots do not live in the country their arms. Interestingly, the Society has of Scotland. Most of us are part of the now published an “Armorial,” which is 50 million, not the five. And most in the an illustrated collection of the arms of Diaspora identify with the motherland not its members, and honorary members, directly but through the medium of a clan grouped alphabetically by clan. In each or family connection. case you can see the chief’s arms first, followed by the other armigers of the clan. Chief of the name and arms There are some 200 full colour, full page It also probably follows, then, that many illustrations of coats of arms, along with of you reading this already own glasses, several other photographs of recent Lords mousepads or jewellery with your clan crest Lyon and other heralds, along with officers on them. The “clan crest” consists of the of the Society and of the Lyon Court itself. very top part of your chief’s arms (the bit The book is a beautiful production above the shield and helmet) surrounded by in itself, and one which would grace Viscount Dunrossil, The Lord Lyon, and Dr J. Ru Morrison, Chief of Clan Morrison, with the banners of Dr Morrison and the Society of Scottish Armigers. a strap and buckle bearing the chief’s motto. the shelves of any Scot, but there is, as The chief is sometimes called the “chief always with the society, an educational of the name and arms of (whatever),” and mission here too, something of an henever two or three Scots of armigers whose purpose is primarily there are usually other armigers in a clan ulterior purpose. Lyon hopes that this are gathered together…an educational. Their mission is to educate or large family. The chief’s arms are known book will encourage and inspire other argument ensues. It sometimes the general public about Scottish heraldry as “undifferenced,” while other people’s worthy folk of Scottish descent to apply seems as if we are less homo and to serve as a resource for Games and arms refer back to the chief’s in some way. for arms themselves. Wsapiens than homo factiosus. We love individuals who want to “get it right.” It can be fascinating to see the different If this is something you might feel nothing more than to pick sides and support Take a look at the FAQ section of our ways an armiger’s shield echoes the design interested in, please get in touch with our own while denigrating the other. It website (www.scotarmigers.net) to see on the chief’s shield, and fascinating also the Society or directly with the Lyon has been this way throughout history, and some of the questions we get asked. to see the way a particular chiefly family court. They will help you understand anyone who thinks it’s only history has These include, what is the right way to chose to present the clan to the world, the process, and whether (and how) never been to an Old Firm football match. address the wife of a chief, or an earl, friend and foe alike. Is the motto in Latin, you might qualify. As we saw already, We support our champions, almost as if or what banners can I fly, or how many English, Scots or Gaelic? What message are heraldry is an ancient and honoured art, it’s a matter of life and death, wearing their feathers (if any) can I wear, and, of they giving about themselves? but it is not simply a matter of history: it livery, shouting their slogans and war cries, course, does ownership of a tiny souvenir is still very much alive. singing their songs, waving their banners plot in a Scottish glen entitle me to Illustrated History For more information on the Society of and flags. A recent article in theNew York anything? (No, it doesn’t. Sorry!) Heraldry has been called “Illustrated Scottish Armigers and their new book Times talked about how some football In addition to the Lyon court, the  History,” and there is much one can learn release Armorial see: www.scotarmigers.net clubs hired marketing men to come up Society works closely with the Council of  with new logos, or change their uniforms, Scottish Clans and Associations (COSCA)  to promote further sales, and instead faced and the Standing Council of Scottish an angry backlash from supporters. Chiefs, many of whose members are also  Well, duh!, as my children used to say. honorary members of SSA.  If these marketing whizzes had known the first thing about heraldry, they’d know  10% these things are sacred. Nobody messes The Society of  with my logo, or in the old heraldic Latin: 10% Scottish Armigers  OFF Nemo me impune lacessit. The Scots are a curious bunch. 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The Scottish Banner speaks to Diana Gabaldon Cast images courtesyCast of Starz/Foxtel. The hit story Outlander has taken millions of people back in time to 18th century Scotland and to a love story like no other. Outlander follows the story of Claire Randall, a married combat nurse from 1945 who is mysteriously swept back in time to 1743, where she is immediately thrown into an unknown world where her life is threatened. When she is forced to marry , a chivalrous and romantic young Scottish warrior, a passionate relationship is ignited that tears Claire’s heart between two vastly different men in two irreconcilable lives. Author and academic Diana Gabaldon spoke to the Scottish Banner’s Sean Cairney on how the concept of Outlander came to be, the Outlander effect and why the Outlander experience is such a success.

SC: Diana thank you very much for taking just a conversation.) I mentioned that I DG: I wouldn’t say that, exactly. I saw a of what they’re writing. My family and the time to speak to the Scottish Banner. thought what I really wanted to do was very old (Patrick Troughton, the second friends were never going to see it, so it Firstly congratulations on the tremendous to write books “that would lift people up” Doctor) episode of the show (it was War didn’t matter. Extremely freeing, and I success of Outlander. You have an (is how I put it, not having the vocabulary Games) in which the Doctor had picked strongly advise anyone who wants to academic background, however you have to describe the feeling of escape fiction up a companion from the Scottish write not to tell anyone about it until said that since the age of eight you knew adequately at that point—but I knew it Highlands in 1746. This companion was they’ve done it. you would be a writer. How did the inner when I read it…). To which God replied a young man who appeared in his kilt— voice of that little girl override the Ph.D. “OK. Do that.” which caused me to think, “Well, that’s SC: You have sold over 25 million books graduate to become an author? So I—along with every other person rather fetching….” which have been translated in over 20 who’s wanted to write a book—had no idea I found myself still thinking about languages, are you amazed just what a DG: Well, it wasn’t actually my voice, so how to do that…but I figured there must this next day—in church—and I then connection people around the world to speak. When I was eight or so, I was on be a way and I’d figure it out eventually. thought, “Well, it doesn’t matter where or have with Outlander? Also how many a family car-outing, driving along on a There was, and I did (at age 36). when you set this novel; the important more books do you think it will take to summer day, watching the big thunder- thing is just to pick a point and get on tell this amazing story? heads that build up near Flagstaff, Arizona SC: I understand you were somewhat with it. So, why not? Scotland, eighteenth on days in mid-summer, and chatting inspired to create Outlander by watching century.” So that’s where I began: DG: Er…28 million and 43 countries with God. (Not formal prayer, it was an episode of Dr Who, can you tell us more? knowing nothing about Scotland or the at the moment, actually. Yes, eighteenth century, having no plot, no I’m constantly amazed (and not outline and no characters—nothing, in infrequently bemused when I get some fact, save the vague images conjured up of the foreign covers. The Korean one by the notion of a man in a kilt. Which is, with the pink soap-bubbles was possibly I think you’ll all admit, a very powerful the oddest one, but there’s a lot of and compelling image… competition for that spot…).

SC: The first bookOutlander was never SC: You had not been to Scotland when meant to be published or even seen by writing the first book. What was your anyone, as you have said you were merely first trip like to the country after seeing developing your writing skills and craft. it through the eyes of someone who Based on this how do you feel it has helped had “travelled” Scotland already whilst you create the characters and develop working on the book? storylines with such raw honesty? DG: I can’t say whether it was simply DG: Well, I felt free to write the story having seen so much of the country via exactly as I saw it and felt the natural photographic and other visual media—it’s shape of it, as I didn’t have the usual a beautiful place, and there’s no shortage Caitriona Balfe (Claire Randall Fraser), Diana Gabaldon and Sam Heughan (Jamie Fraser). beginning writer’s constant fear of of pictures! Or just having been in a mental what their family or friends will think state where immersion and imagination

Page 14 • North American Edition • September 2017 THE SCOTTISH BANNER meet, but when I stood on the Carter’s Bar and looked off into Scotland, rolling greenly upward off into the distance, what I thought was….”Yes.” Yes, it was just as I’d imagined it. And yes, it had a definite sense of coming….perhaps not coming home, but coming to a place where I was expected.

SC: Gaelic was the spoken language of the Highlands in 18th century Scotland. How important was it for you for historical accuracy to incorporate the language into Outlander? Also Outlander has brought a Diana Gabaldon at Doune Castle, or Castle Leoch in Outlander, in Scotland. renewed interest to the Gaelic language, how does this make you feel? in which he told me that he was very much Caitriona Balfe, Diana Gabaldon and Sam Heughan on set in South Africa. DG: Fascinated, deeply moved, and afraid that Gaelic was a dying language, and responsible. It was very important to me might well vanish in the next ten or fifteen to indicate (as best I could) what the actual years. To which I replied, “That may be so, of those characters? Having watched the historical/cultural context of the Highlands Iain—but if the language does die, it won’t be show I see each actor very much as the was, at the time I was depicting. In part, that’s because you and I didn’t try.” character they play. Was that the same for just the scholar’s sense of obligation—I was an you or was there any adjustment for you academic for many years before beginning to SC: The “Outlander effect” has seen to the characters you already had so well write novels—but it was also part of an overall fans of both the books and the TV developed for many years prior to the perception/principle that I’d noted. series flock to see the Scottish locations series filming an episode? To wit: accuracy in detail is one of the featured in Outlander. How proud does best ways to insure a sense of reality in that make you feel that your books have DG: I don’t create a physical fiction. And if you’re writing something had such a positive impact to Scotland’s appearance for anyone; they just have that involves fantastic elements…you tourism industry? a physical appearance, which I can Caitriona Balfe (Claire Randall Fraser), really have to make the reader believe in then describe for people who can’t see Tobias Menzies (Frank Randall). the details of daily life and ordinary human DG: Astonished, grateful, and very them. (And, to answer an increasingly actions. If you can do that, when you then humble, I tell you! common question, no, I don’t now see find at least fifty different answers. I’m not ask them to jump off a cliff (by believing in Sam Heughan and Caitriona Balfe when the first writer to realize—or to say—that time-travel, say…), they’ll follow you over SC: The television series returns to I write. I still see Jamie and Claire Fraser I only begin a book; each reader finishes a the edge without the slightest hesitation. screens this month, ending what some call as they really look.) different one. All I can say is that it doesn’t How to produce accuracy in a language “Droughtlander”, and the show has been a matter what genre you like to read; you’ll you don’t speak? Well, you need help… huge success all over the world. How involved SC: And finally Diana you have called your find some of it in my work! I started with a modest Gaelic/English are you today in keeping the production as books “big fat historical fiction”.Outlander Diana Gabaldon’s latest release Seven dictionary, procured with some difficulty close as possible to your written works? mixes so many genres with time travel, Stones To Stand or Fall- A Collection of (Gaelic speakers being thin on the ground raw intimacy, brutal history and Scotland’s Outlander Fiction is now available. Diana in Phoenix, Arizona in 1988, when I began DG: I’m a consultant on the show. Which stunning scenery. How do you feel each is also now working on the 9th Outlander writing Outlander). Then things started means that they send me scripts, they genre helps create the overall Outlander installment called Go Tell The Bees That I happening, we (my agent and I) sold the send me the many (many, many) revisions experience for fans? Am Gone. For more information see: book as the first volume of the trilogy, and of each script, they send me the daily www.dianagabaldon.com I told my husband that I really must go see footage (or pixelage) that they shoot on set DG: Well, if you asked a hundred people Outlander Season 3 premieres Scotland now. each day, and they show me the various what they liked about my books, you’d September 10 on Starz. While there, I procured a much bigger episodes as they’re assembled—each one and more thorough Gaelic/English goes through several iterations before dictionary, which I used in the writing of achieving its final form. Dragonfly in Amber.That novel, too, was The production people invite my well received, and I began to get fan-mail. comments, and as we get along well (Real letters; email didn’t exist, either.) together, they often see my point and will Among these lovely letters was one from a try to accommodate it. Nine times out of gentleman named Iain MacKinnon Taylor. ten, they can; the tenth time, they’ll explain Mr. Taylor praised my books, saying how why they can’t. wonderful it was to see Scottish history They aren’t, however, under any legal handled so well, and how much he enjoyed compulsion to pay attention to me. They the story. He then coughed metaphorically can do anything they want with the show. and said delicately that he had just one So it’s a good thing that they have a lot of observation: he had, he said, been born on respect for the fans of the books, as well as the Isle of Harris, and was a native Gaelic some for my opinions. speaker. And, “I think you must be getting your Gaelic from a dictionary.” SC: You would have the most intimate It wasn’t, he said, so much that the connection with the characters spirits and words I was using were wrong, as that I had minds, whilst writing the books did you no grammar, voice, or idiom with which mentally create a physical appearance to arrange them. Might he, perhaps, offer his assistance? To which my response was a fervent, “Mr. Taylor, where have you been all my life?” Iain was able to help me through several books, and when he developed health issues that prevented him from continuing, I was so fortunate as to find further help from Catherine MacGregor (a Canadian of Scottish extraction, who modestly styles herself a “learner”) and her good friend Catherine-Ann MacPhee, whom your readers probably know as a prominent television presenter and singer—and a native of Barra. Sam Heughan as Jamie Fraser. I remember one letter from Iain, though,

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Moray Council planning & regulatory services committee chair Cllr Claire Feaver said: “A significant amount of renewable energy will be generated by this solar farm over the next 30 years. The opportunity to continue grazing on the land, together with the habitat management plan, will maintain and enhance the diverse range of species in and around the site. I see this as a win-win.” The project will overtake Scotland’s current largest farm, a 13MW system at Errol Estate in Perthshire, which was opened in May 2016. The scheme was also developed by Elgin Energy and is capable of generating power more than 3,500 homes. Permission for the Moray solar farm is valid for 30 years, from the first time energy is exported from the site. A date for the start of the project has yet to be set but is expected to begin in the next few month. As well as the solar panels, the site will consist of a substation, 20 invertor stations and a CCTV camera system, all bound by a Scottish scientists using whisky two-and-a-half metre high deer fence. Film director Oliver Stone among waste to help the salmon industry Edinburgh honorary graduates Scotland’s whisky distilleries could soon major Scottish names such as the Battle Chris Leggat, finance director for become the source of an economically- of Bannockburn, St Kilda, Glenfinnan, Douglas Laing & Co, said the distillery will competitive supply of omega-3 for Culloden, Glencoe and Soldier’s Leap. The produce a ‘gritty, urban style of malt’. “We salmon feed. Scientist Douglas Martin has NTS has taken out trademarks in order to won’t be making a traditional Lowland developed an omega-3-rich microalgae protect the historical and charitable areas whisky; the exact opposite in fact,” he that feeds on the nitrates and phosphates from exploitation and maintain the brand said. “We’ll be looking for more strength in the waste water from the whisky-making in which they represent. and a style more toward the Speyside and process. Martin, who has a Master’s degree An NTS spokesman said: “The National Highlands. Our whisky will be unique in synthetic biology and biotech from Trust for Scotland does hold the trademark for one produced in the Lowland area of Edinburgh University, has secured funding for the name Glencoe and as such there Scotland. We’re looking at a whisky that’s Academy award-winning film director for his start-up company MiAlgae so he are restrictions on how the name can be designed for the palate of what we believe Oliver Stone is among the public figures can optimise the production process and used by other parties. The purpose of this consumers are interested in. We’ve been who received an honorary degree from the grow enough algae for trials with feed was to protect them from being acquired making whisky for almost 70 years, so we’re University of Edinburgh this past summer. manufacturers. He said confidentiality by commercial organisations with no playing to our strengths and maximising The filmmaker received the degree of agreements prevented him from saying links to these areas, as well as providing our knowledge of the industry.” Doctor Honoris Causa at McEwan Hall, Mr which distillery he was working with but an opportunity for the Trust to raise This will be the company’s first Stone was awarded a degree in recognition added that it was “one of the big ones”. awareness of these places and its role in dedicated site as they have previously used of his prominent and politically engaging The finite supply of forage fish in the caring for them.” distillers across the country to make its career in film. Stone has won three world’s oceans means the expanding New of the trademarks came to light blends. Water will be piped to the complex Academy Awards, as Best Director for aquaculture industry has had to look recently in Scotland as the NTS sparked from Loch Katrine, and 300 tonnes of barley his Vietnam War dramas Platoon (1986) elsewhere for omega-3 in salmon diets and fury when their lawyers ordered Aboyne- will be brought in from Scottish farms to and Born on the Fourth of July (1989) and algae is an increasingly established source. based Hilltrek Outdoor Clothing to stop create whiskies such as Old Particular, for Best Adapted Screenplay, as writer of TerraVia produces algae in South America selling its £365 Glencoe waterproof jacket, Timorous Beastie and The King of Scots. Midnight Express (1978). Before becoming for BioMar using fermented plant sugars, which it has done for over 30 years under a filmmaker, Stone served in the US Army and joint venture Veramaris recently that brand name. Subsequently the NTS has Scotland’s largest solar and experienced combat duty in the revealed plans to build a $200 million been accused of bullying after threatening farm given go-ahead Vietnam War, receiving numerous commercial-scale facility for producing the small business with legal action. military awards for his service. algae in Nebraska in the US. Other recipients of Honorary Degrees MiAlgae’s operation would differ by New whisky distillery for Glasgow included a leading social entrepreneur and obtaining nutrients and low or no cost, a figures from the worlds of media and the win-win for MiAlgae and distillers. Another arts. Entrepreneur Josh Littlejohn, who advantage is the fact that the waste water founded Social Bite – a growing chain of is also cleaned of potentially harmful sandwich shops run as a social business - phosphates and nitrates before it is put was awarded a Doctor of Science in Social back in the system. Science. A quarter of their staff have been affected by homelessness and 100 per cent The National Trust for of the business’ profits go to good causes. Scotland trademarks Scottish Planning permission has been granted for The venture gained worldwide profile location and battle names what will be Scotland’s largest solar farm, when Hollywood star George Clooney A whisky firm has revealed plans to build a 20MW project in the north-east of the visited one of its Edinburgh sandwich a new £10.7 million urban distillery and country. Moray Council approved Bristol- shops in November 2015. bottling complex on the banks of the based developer Elgin Energy’s plans Journalist Magnus Linklater - former River Clyde. Douglas Laing & Co said the for the solar farm near Urquhart, which editor of The Scotsman and The Times in ambitious project will be built at Pacific could see around 80,000 solar panels Scotland – was awarded a Doctor Honoris Quay, the facility will also include a installed. The 47-hectare site will include Causa. Broadcaster Michael Mosley - a bottling complex, visitor centre, whisky a substation and 20 invertor stations, with familiar figure on screen with his engaging, Reenactors at the Bannockburn laboratory and archive, and a new all cabling to be underground. This is lively health and science documentaries Live event in Stirling. corporate head office for the family-owned intended to ensure the farm maintains a – was awarded a Doctor of Science and company. The new venture will also see strong environmental condition, allowing Sculptor Andy Scott - best known for The National Trust for Scotland (NTS) the launch of the firm’s Govan-based malt sheep to graze around the panels and his popular Kelpies creation in Falkirk has trademarked the rights to a variety of whisky and create up to 38 new jobs. hedgerows to grow undisturbed. received a Doctor honoris causa.

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The Highland Military Work underway on £10m renovation of Scottish Tattoo comes to Fort George maritime buildings

ork has begun on the £10m renovation of maritime buildings in the harbour of Wick in Caithness to act as a hub for the new £2.6bn off-shore wind Wfarm. The buildings were originally designed in 1807 by Scottish engineer and first president of the Institution of Civil Engineers, Thomas Telford, to support the areas maritime industry. The new designs for the buildings, which will service the wind A Highland piper performing with the massed bands at the Highland Military Tattoo. farm’s 84 turbines have been done by HRI/Munro Architects with consultant Pick Everard, which is providing mechanical and engineering services. he Highland Military Tattoo is Overhead, there will be an aerial the Royal Marines, Army and Beatrice Offshore Windfarm is being delivered by a unique and truly authentic display by an SE5A World War 1 RAF battling it out; all take place Scottish and Southern Energy (SSE) in joint venture experience. Set inside the Biplane, to herald the imminent during the course of the show. with Spanish-owned Talisman Energy (UK). It is magnificent ramparts of Fort start of the show and an invite for The finale with the RAF Guard expected to be operational in 2019. TGeorge, this spectacular military guests to take their seats. Seating is of Honour, a rendition of Auld Doug Soutar, director at Pick Everard, said: ceremony showcases impressive acts, within three main stands, wrapped Lang Syne and The Last Post “The onshore element of the project comprises the reflecting the very best of Scottish around the arena, with the Fort’s followed by the Lone Piper, offer conservation, re-planning and part reconstruction history, tradition and military expertise. frontage as the iconic backdrop to an often, emotional conclusion to of two blocks of the historic Old Pulteneytown area With a broad appeal and a worldwide the Tattoo. In Visit Scotland’s Year of the evening’s events; prior to an of Wick. These buildings are more than 200 years audience, the Highland Tattoo attracts History Heritage and Archaeology, impressive fireworks display, to old and have a longstanding history of being used visitors from many global countries, the programme will celebrate celebrate the end of the show. for maritime purposes.” Steve Wilson, senior project along with a faithful local following, the rich military heritage of Fort The Highland Military Tattoo is manager for SSE, said: “These buildings will become returning to see new acts within an George, the Highlands and Moray, fast becoming a ‘must-see’ event our long-term operations and maintenance base for annually changing show. and the 75th anniversary of the in the Scottish tourism schedule, Beatrice windfarm. These Thomas Telford buildings (RAF) Regiment. offering locals and visitors alike, are a symbol of Wick’s industrial and marine past Capital of the Highlands The show in fact commences with a unique opportunity to immerse so we are really pleased to be utilising them and in Inverness remains ever popular as a Fly-past by RAF Typhoon jets, themselves in the heritage and doing so help continue that legacy.” a tourist destination and its status directly overhead of the main arena culture of the Scottish Highlands as Capital of the Highlands, affords and signals the start to the evening’s and Moray against the backdrop the city superb communication entertainment. of the spectacular Fort George. links, by road, rail, air and sea. The It is also the year of the Gaelic gateway city offers visitors an ideal Gaelic Welcome Welcome and there will be Gaelic location to stay whilst touring the An array of Massed Pipes and songs and the opportunity to wider Highlands, Speyside and Drums from some 9 military learn a few Gaelic phrases. “We Moray area and is on the doorstep and local bands, The Band look forward to giving all our of Fort George, making the Highland of the Royal Regiment of visitors a warm ‘Gaelic Welcome’ Tattoo a perfect way to spend an Scotland, historical vignettes, in September” said Major General evening, whilst touring Scotland’s traditional highland dancing, a Seymour Monro. Clan Cameron Gathering Australia northern reaches. Access to the Fort clarsach group, Gaelic singing, The Highland Military Tattoo Gold Coast, Queensland is of course free when attending the the Queen’s Colour Squadron take’s place at Fort George, Tattoo and visitors are invited to take Drill Team from the RAF Ardersier, near Inverness between 20 – 22 April 2018 a stroll onto the ramparts and admire Regiment and an Armed Forces’ 8-10 September 2017. For details see: Fort George’s classical buildings competition with teams from www.highlandmilitarytattoo.co.uk Host: Clan Cameron New South Wales Inc. Registration Forms are available on Clan Cameron website and examine its large cannons and www.clan-cameron.org.au mortars, which defended it and the OR https://jcam2812.wixsite.com/gathering sea route to Inverness. There’s a good For detailed information chance of spotting dolphins in the and to follow the Gathering news, visit Moray Firth too! www.facebook.com/ClanCameronGatheringAustralia www.facebook.com/clancameronnswinc/ or contact Lynne Cameron at [email protected] All National and International Cameron Descendants and their families are invited to attend. We look forward to seeing you there These two squares are QR codes. If you have a smartphone equipped with a camera and you download a QR code reader/scanner application feature Highland dancers are part of the you can scan this code and it will take energy and entertainment of the The Highland Military Tattoo includes a variety of international you straight to our Facebook page (left) Highland Military Tattoo. military bands performing in their finest regalia. or our website (right).

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By: Nellie The Seaside Highland GamesGraham Lowry Some eighty Clans and organizations fill entertainment by the Third Marine our quarter mile Clan Row, all eager to Aircraft Wing Band who will be with us answer questions and help solve research all weekend! Look for them to perform issues that Games guests bring to the field. on the field in the Opening Ceremonies And they will search until they find the and Grand Parade at noon on Saturday, answer. The saying goes that if we can’t as well as periodically throughout the find your family in the books we have, we’ll grounds, making a very full slate of events. get a bigger book! Four of the 80 Clans will be holding AGM Of course, one’s attention will be drawn (Annual General Meeting) sessions with to a thousand other attractions along the times and locations posted so Clansfolk way—from dancers of all types, bagpipers can join. More whisky and genealogy and drums-solo and in the many bands-to classes and a how-to time with special a total of four music stages offering a full Guest Andrew W R Morrison, the Viscount range of great Scots and Irish tunes, the Dunrossil, President of the Scottish Society amazing Highland Heavies, the Scottish of Armigers—the arbiter of ALL coats-of- athletes throwing impossibly huge arms. How special is that? What are we weights. Further, the beautiful Border missing? Not much and if you look, you’ll Collies following their instincts to herd the probably find it somewhere on these animals before them, the “Heelan’ Coos” Fairgrounds. Plan to see us in October! (Highland shaggy long-horned cattle) Marine Band march. The power of the heavies. The Seaside Highland Games takes place which will vie for your attention. Then on October 13, 14 & 15, 2017 in Ventura, back to the wonderful vendors of fine California. For further details see hen a collection of Clansmen the first Festival was mounted in 2003, the Celtic wares in the mighty Vendor Halls. www.seaside-games.com or call John met in 2002 at the Loch City Council, the Chamber of Commerce, The food court is nearby to satisfy with & Nellie at 818-886-4958. Prado Games to discuss the the US Naval base at nearby Point Mugu authentic Scottish food and drink so you possibility of a Festival on were all on board as well as thousands of can do it all over again. Wthe northern side of the great Los Angeles local Celts/Scots/Irish and wannabees of metroplex, they had no idea the search every ethnicity. And that has been the way A Scottish Evening would reach into the next county. But, it has evolved for these past fifteen years. Special events include Friday night’s Single reach it did, and the great Ventura County Everyone comes and everyone has an Malt Scotch Tasting and the amazing “A Fairgrounds (then called Seaside Park) was amazingly good time. Scottish Evening” dinner/entertainment/ discovered to be an ideal location for a Scottish Fashion Show. Then Saturday mighty gathering of the Highland lifestyle. Clan Row evening will feature a special “Chief’s Little indication was shown by the locals The Clan societies were the first and Dinner” to honor the two authentic Sheep herding. of a solid base to begin but by the time strongest supporters and continue as such. Clan Chiefs in attendance with brilliant

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Page 18 • North American Edition • September 2017 THE SCOTTISH BANNER THIS MONTH IN SCOTTISH HISTORY Names & Places In The News From Today And The Past 1 - Death of St Giles, patron saint 7 - The birth of Henry Campbell Bannerman, 12 - Jacobites defeated government 21 - Prince Charles Edward Stuart of Edinburgh (and Elgin). 714 the British Prime Minister. Born in Glasgow forces at Battle of Sheriffmuir. 1715 emerged victorious at the Battle of and educated at Glasgow and Cambridge, Prestonpans. The Jacobite army of just 1 - The sole remaining gas street lamp in Bannerman became the Liberal MP for over 3,000 under Bonnie Prince Charlie Glasgow was lit for the last time. 1971 Stirling in 1868, a position he held until heavily defeated the English Royal 2 - Death of engineer, road, bridge and his death. He climbed the parliamentary forces led by Sir John Cope. 1745 canal builder Thomas Telford. He was ranks, , before becoming leader of the 22 - Alex Salmond defeated Margaret buried in Westminster Abbey. 1834 Liberal Party in 1899. Bannerman became Ewing by 486 votes to 186 to become Prime Minister in 1905 following Balfour’s 2 - Bill Shankly, arguably the greatest National Convenor of the Scottish National resignation, and led his party to a landslide football manager ever, was born in Party (SNP). Salmond is credited with victory in the 1906 general election. 1836 Glenbuck, Ayrshire. His early career saw improving the credibility of the SNP by him winning seven caps for Scotland as 8 - The hanging and beheading of John Baird projecting a moderate image and presenting a professional footballer. At the age of 33, and Andrew Hardie in Stirling, following the 12 - The death of William McNab, the the party as a realistic alternative to the Shankly was approaching the end of his Battle of Bonnymuir in April. The Radicals, curator of the Edinburgh’s Royal Botanic Labour Party. He would go on to become playing days, so when the 1946-47 season who were on strike from the weaving Garden. McNab was one of the greatest First Minister of Scotland. 1990 of 19th century Scottish gardeners, brought professional football back post- communities in outrage at decreased 23 - The Earl of Mar was commissioned responsible for reviving the Royal war, Shankly embarked on a new career as wages, had marched from Glasgow towards to raise a regiment nicknamed “Earl of a manager, he was appointed chairman of the Carron Iron Works in Falkirk. 1820 Botanic Garden of Edinburgh, elevating it from a state of neglect into one of the Mar’s Gray Breeks” which later became Liverpool in 1959. At this time Liverpool 9 - James IV and the flower of Scotland’s world’s great plant collections. 1848 the Royal Scots Fusiliers. 1678 was languishing in the Second Division. nobility were killed in battle at Flodden Shankly turned this situation around 13 - Battle of Aberdeen, in which the Marquis 24 - Edward Balliol, son of John Field, near Branxton, in the English and elevated Liverpool to the top of the of Montrose captured the city. 1644 Balliol, crowned at Scone. He was county of Northumberland. 1513 deposed by supporters of David II league, the envy of all other clubs.. Shankly 14 - Bonnie Prince Charlie, Charles Edward died of a heart attack in 1981. 1913 in December 1332, restored in 1333, Stuart, occupied Edinburgh. 1745 deposed again in 1334, restored in 1335 3 - Prince Charles Edward Stuart 15 - The Hector from Loch Broom, near and finally deposed in 1341.1332 proclaimed his father as King James Ullapool, arrives at Pictou, Nova Scotia, carrying 25 - The first telephone cable connecting VIII of Scotland at Perth. 1745 emigrants escaping from the Clearances. It the UK and North America “went live”. is estimated that today there are more than 3 - Rioting on the streets of Glasgow, as 2,240 miles long, the cable ran from 140,000 descendants of these emigrants living weavers expressed their anger at wage Gallanach Bay, near Oban in Argyll and in Canada and the United States. 1773 cuts. Workers burned their looms in Bute, to Clarenville, Canada. 1956 the streets, and bricks were thrown at 16 - Scottish explorer David Livingstone 26 - Queen Margaret, Maid of Norway magistrates and soldiers, in protest at the discovered Lake Nyasa, Africa. 1859 (“Eiriksdotter”) died, en route from city manufacturers’ proposal to reduce 16 - Jacobite forces routed Hanoverian Norway to Scotland. 1290 the scale of wages. The disorder resulted dragoons on the outskirts of Edinburgh in in soldiers opening fire on the insurgents 9 - Mary Queen of Scots was crowned in what was known as the Canter of Coltbrig. and six people were killed. 1797 the security of Stirling Castle. Although only At the beginning of September Charles had six days old at the time, Mary’s coronation entered Perth. He had then crossed the Forth took place in the castle chapel following unopposed at the Fords of Frew and, after the death of her father, James V. 1543 passing through Stirling and Linlithgow, he arrived within a few miles of Edinburgh. 1745 10 - HRH Duke of York opened the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and 17 - David Dunbar Buick was born in Museum in Glasgow. 1897 Arbroath. Buick emigrated to the USA with his parents at the age of two and founded 27 - The 80,000-ton liner Queen 10 - The Scots were defeated by the English the Buick Manufacturing Company which Elizabeth, then the largest passenger at the Battle of Pinkie Cleugh, or Falside, later became General Motors. 1854 near Edinburgh. The battle was sparked by ship ever built, launched at John the “Rough Wooing”; the English demands Brown’s shipyard, Clydebank. 1938 that the ten-year-old Edward VI should 28 - “Battle of the Clans” between clans marry Mary Queen of Scots, aged five. The Chattan and Kay on the North Inch, 4 - The last of the famous green and military campaign by Henry VIII on the Perth, in front of King Robert III. 1396 yellow tramcars ran in Glasgow. The final Borders followed the reneged agreement 29 - Charter granted to Sir William scheduled tram ran from Dalmuir to by the Scots Parliament that the two crowns would be united by marriage. The Alexander of Menstrie to colonise the Auchenshuggle in the city’s East End, and battle was fought at Pinkie Cleugh (cleugh “Baronetcy of Nova Scotia”. 1621 marked the demise of a transportation meaning narrow glen in Gaelic) outside system dating from August 1872. More than 29 - John Cobb made an attempt at the Musselburgh and can be regarded as the 200,000 Glaswegians turned out to bid a 18 - Theatre Royal, Glasgow, became world water-speed record on Loch Ness first “modern” battle on British soil.1547 poignant farewell to the trams. 1962 the first theatre in Britain to be lit by gas. which ended in tragedy as the boat crashed 11 - Battle of Stirling Bridge, Wallace The Queen Street Theatre’s consent to and Cobb was killed. Cobb was a racing 4 - The Forth Road Bridge was opened be “illuminated with sparkling gas” in (as famously portrayed by Mel Gibson driver who had broken the land speed to the public. Construction had begun the presence of a large and fashionable in Braveheart) and Andrew de Moray record in 1938, 1939, and 1947, when in 1958, and at 6,156 feet long, with a audience was a significant advance.1818 led Scotland to victory against the forces he became the first man ever to attain a centre span of 3300 feet, the suspension of England’s King Edward I. 1297 18 - Scotland holds a Referendum on speed of 400 miles per hour on land. In bridge spanning the River Forth at South independence. More than 3.6m people turned 1952 he made an attempt on the water Queensferry outside Edinburgh was the 11 - The Referendum on Devolution in out to answer the referendum question: speed record. On his first run, he became longest in Europe at that time. 1964 Scotland which approved the creation of ‘Should Scotland be an independent country?’ the first person to break the 200 miles per a new Scottish Parliament. In the 1990s, 55.3% voted no and 44.7% voted yes. 2014 5 - John Home, the Scottish playwright, the Labour Party had revived the idea of hour barrier, but his boat crashed shortly historian and minister, died. Home outraged devolution and, on their return to power 19 - The Great North of Scotland afterwards and he was killed. 1952 the Church when his verse tragedy, Douglas, Railway opened, running from in 1997, the first moves were made. The 30 - Announcement of the discovery enjoyed a successful run in Edinburgh Aberdeen to Huntly. 1854 referendum received an overwhelming of penicillin by Ayrshire-born Sir after its first performance in 1757.1808 “Yes” vote in favour of establishing a 20 - Liner Queen Elizabeth II launched Alexander Fleming. 1928 at John Brown’s shipyard at Clydebank. 6 - The Earl of Mar unfurled the standard Scottish assembly with tax-raising powers, with 74.3 per cent voting for a Scottish The ship was not named after the Queen, 30 - John Rae, explorer and surveyor of of the “Old Pretender” in Braemar at the parliament and 63.5 per cent in favour of but rather was the second ship to bear Canada’s northern coastline was born in start of the first Jacobite Uprising.1715 it having tax-raising powers. The Scottish that name. This is why the Arabic ‘2’ is Orkney. Several Orkney born explorers 7 - Sir Simon Fraser, the “Scottish Parliament was formally opened by the used in the name rather than the Roman worked in the Canadian Arctic in the Patriot”, who fought alongside Wallace Queen on 1 July 1999, with Labour politician numerals used by the Queen. The ship employ of the Hudson’s Bay Company, but made its maiden voyage in 1969. and Robert the Bruce, was executed by Donald Dewar invested as the first 1967 Rae was the most outstanding. Rae was the English and his head displayed in minister, at the helm of a Labour-Liberal 21 - King James V crowned at recently granted a posthumous Freedom London alongside that of Wallace. 1306 Democrat coalition government. 1997 Stirling Castle. 1513 of Orkney from the local officials.1813

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CLAN DONALD CALLING THE CLANS in VICTORIA Proudly affiliated with Clan Donald Australia, Victorian Scottish Welcome to the Scottish Banner’s Calling the Clans section. Our “Clansified” listing of Union and Scots of Victoria Coordinating Group. Represented at all major Highland gatherings in Victoria. Scottish Clans, Societies and Clubs. If you would like to add your Clan to these pages CLAN DONALD VICTORIA please contact your nearest Scottish Banner office for full details. Our address and phone President: Mr Norman A. Macdonald numbers are located on page 2. If you are contacting your Clan be sure to tell them you Contact: Secretary [email protected] saw them in the Scottish Banner and please support these great community organisations. Formed in 1934, with membership from many MacDonald, McDonald and Macdonald families living in Victoria. Membership available, with dance classes for Scottish Clan Chief: Captain A.A.C.Farquharson, MC of Clan Baird Society Worldwide Country Dance most Friday evenings in Gardenvale. Invercauld Membership is open to those descended THE CLAN from Baird, Barde, Bard, Beard, Beaird, Brd, CAMPBELL SOCIETY CLAN MACDONALD YARRAVILLE Bayard, Bardt, Barth and Biard or varied OF AUSTRALIA Hon Chief: Mrs Christina Milne Wilson spellings of the name of Scottish origin. Contact: Secretary In addition to the Society newsletter and the opportunity [email protected] The Secretary to associate with fellow clansman members may The Society exists for the benefit of all Clan Farquharson Association Australia A hereditary clan society formed by the children of PO Box 585 query the Society geneologist. For information write: its members. Norman Hume Macdonald and Johan McKenzie SPRINGWOOD, NSW 2777 All Campbells or descendants of Dr. Debra J. Baird, President Macdonald (nee Munro) who departed Scotland in 1854. or by Email to: [email protected] 3491 County Road 3459, Haleyville, AL 35565 Campbells and members of Clan Septs Email: [email protected] are most welcome to join the Society. Regional Directors for Australia Branches exist in NSW, Vic, Qld & SA. David and Patricia Benfell For information contact the CLAN FERGUSSON SOCIETY Email: [email protected] National Secretary Judy Campbell Clan Donnachaidh website: www.clanbairdsociety.com Ph: (08) 8260 3637 Society of New South Wales Inc., OF NORTH AMERICA One of the oldest Highland Clans, Email:[email protected] Australia stretches back in history to the www.clan-campbell.org.au Duncan Robertson Reid founder of Scotland’s monarchy, King Fergus 1. People who bear any of the above names or names of any of the Septs of the Clan (see advertisement from CA USA) are invited President: BJ Ferguson to join with us in our activities to promote Clan Donnachaidh, “The Children of Duncan” by participating in the various activities Please address inquiries to: Clan Campbell Society conducted by Scottish Societies. B. J. Ferguson, President, CFSNA For information & membership application, contact 192 Hawthorne Hill Rd, Jasper, GA USA 30143 (North America) Gordon Robertson A society for Campbells, members of 58/157 Marconi Rd. Bonnells Bay NSW 2264 recognized septs, their descendants, and their friends. Recognized septs include: Ballantine, Burnett, Burns, Caddell, Calder, Harris, Hastings, Loudon, MacArthur, MacConachie, MacDiamid, MacIver, McKellar, MacKelvie, MacKessock, MacNichol, MacTavish, CLAN DONNACHAIDH SOCIETY MacThomas, Moore, Muir, Orr, Pinkerton, Chief Gilbert Robertson of Struan

Thomas, Thompson. Membership invited to all who share the Sept names: Duncan, Robertson, Reid, Collier, Dobson, Hobson, MacConachie, MacIvor, MacJames, MacLagan, Stark, and all variations. Prospective members inquire to: The Clan Fraser Society of North America is one of the five Worldwide Clan Society Branches: authorized national societies operating worldwide under the Secretary ([email protected]) authority of the Rt Hon. Lady Saltotm, Chief of the Name of Clan Campbell Society, (NA) UK: London & Southern Counties * Rannoch & Highlands Canada: Ontario * Western Canada Fraser, and the Rt. Hon. Lord Lovat, Chief of Clan Fraser of 963 Plum Tree Lane Australia: New So. Wales * Victoria * Queensland * Western Australia Lovat. Members receive a newsletter, “The Nessie’ and support in Fenton, MI 48430 New Zealand: North Island of New Zealand USA: Arizona * Carolinas * Florida * Gulf Coast * Mid-Atlantic * doing genealogical research. All those bearing the name of Fraser, www.ccsna.org Mid-West * Northeast * Northern California * Pacific Northwest * Texas recognized Septs thereof and their descendants are cordially South * Rocky Mountains * Southern California * Upper Mid-West invited to contact the following for membership information: Learn more about Clan Donnachaidh * our History * Membership * our Clan Museum in Bruar, Scotland * the DNA Project * locate a Branch near you. Visit our website:

Charles Diman http://www.donnachaidh.com/ cfsna.com Membership Chairman Facebook: The Clan Donnachaidh Society 3413 Sunnybrook Dr. Email: [email protected] Charlotte, NC 28210 Email: [email protected]

Clan Davidson Society in Australia Inc. CHEIF: Grant Davidson of Davidston cordially invites to membership all who bear one of the Clan Names, and all who can trace their descent from an ancestor bearing one of these Names: Davidson; Davison; Dawson; Davis; Davie; Davey; Davy; Day; Dye;Dyson; Dawson; Dea; Dean; Deane; Deas; Deason; Dees; Dee; Dey; Daw; Dow; Dhai; Kay; Keay; Key; Keys; MacDade; MacDaid; MacDavid; MacDavett; MacDagnie; MacDagny; MacDhai; McKeddie. In addition we welcome into membership all who have a family association with the Clan Davidson. Applications may be made on our website www.clandavidson.org. au or contact the Hon. Secretary Mr Dennis Hill, J.P, P.O. Box 519 Membership inquiries Baulkham Hills NSW 1755 [email protected] 0431 527 662 welcomed from MacGregors Clan Dunbar of all spellings and Septs of The House of Gospatric the Earl Gregor Grier MacAdams MacNish Magruder Eligible blood or marriage, all descendants of The McGehee Gregory King Peter Fletcher CLAN DONALD Gospatric: Dunbar, Clugston, Corbett, Dundas, Gregg Lecky Black and many others Edgar, Grey, Heryng, Home, Knox, Nisbett, AUSTRALIA Jeanne P. Lehr “under the patronage of the High Peddie, Strickland, Washington, Wedderburn and 11 Ballas Crt. Council of the Chiefs of Clan Donald” all spelling variations of each name. Also all other St. Louis, MO 63131-3036 High Commissioner Mr Lachlan Macdonald families who were associated with The Gospatric. Phone: 314-432-28742, [email protected] State Commissioners Chieftain David C. Dunbar website: www.acgsus.org NSW Mr Lachlan Macdonald 16419 Carlton Vale Ct. Qld Mr A. Neil Macdonald Tomball, TX 77377-8488 SA Ms Therese McCutcheon Vic Mr Norman A Macdonald WA Ms Pamela McDonald Clan Gregor Society Australasia www.clandonaldaustralia.com All MacGregors and Septs of our Clan are invited to join one of the oldest Clan Societies in Scotland Est There is no joy without Clan Donald 1822. If you live in Australia or New Zealand, please contact our clan representative in Australia; Frank McGregor Clan Gregor Society PO Box 14 NORTH HOBART TAS 7002 Email: [email protected] Web. www.clangregor.com “Royal is my Race”

Clan Cameron NSW Inc. Clan Donald, U.S.A., Inc. 2018 Australian Gathering Membership is open only to persons of Details on website http://www.clan-cameron.org.au the blood of Macdonald, however spelled or of the blood of a recognized associate President: James Lachlan Cameron family or is related by marriage or legal adoption to either of these write for more [email protected] info and a complete Sept list. Diane Carey-Schmitz Secretary: Lynnette Cameron 1685 Casitas Avenue [email protected] Pasadena, CA 91103, [email protected]

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� Clan MacDougall Society of North America, Inc. � � CLAN DONALD �a���� �a��al��������� � Clan MacLellan ���M���������� MacDougall MacDowall John B. McClellan, Jr. CALLING THE CLANS in VICTORIA ������a������������������ll�� ���������  Treasurer Proudly affiliated with Clan Donald Australia, Victorian Scottish ��a�l�� ���o��a��o��all�o��� � �������o����a���� www��a��o��all�o��� � Union and Scots of Victoria Coordinating Group. �a���oo��� �www��a���oo���o���la��a��o��all� 6409 Knollwood Drive Welcome to the Scottish Banner’s Calling the Clans section. Our “Clansified” listing of � McKinney, TX Represented at all major Highland gatherings in Victoria. EĂŵĞƐƐƐŽĐŝĂƚĞĚǁŝƚŚůĂŶDĂĐŽƵŐĂůůŽĨƌŐLJůů Scottish Clans, Societies and Clubs. If you would like to add your Clan to these pages ĂŶĚůĂŶDĂĐŽǁĂůůŽĨ'ĂůůŽǁĂLJ  75070-6032 CLAN DONALD VICTORIA Email: [email protected] please contact your nearest Scottish Banner office for full details. Our address and phone President: Mr Norman A. Macdonald �o�l����� Ma��o�l� Ma�o�al� �o�a����� Ma��o�a����� � Invites all MacLellans and their descendants regardless numbers are located on page 2. If you are contacting your Clan be sure to tell them you Contact: Secretary �o�l������ Ma��o�l�� � [email protected] �ol������ Ma��ol������ Ma���ll����� of surname spelling to join in preserving our heritage. �o�al������ Ma��o�al��� M��o��al����� Various family names are MacLellan(d), McClellan(d), saw them in the Scottish Banner and please support these great community organisations. Formed in 1934, with membership from many MacDonald, �o��al����� Ma��o��all����� Ma��o��al���� �o��l�� M��o��l�� M��o��al�� McLellan(d) and Gilliland. McDonald and Macdonald families living in Victoria. ���al����� Ma����al����� Ma����l������ Clan Chief: Captain Visit our website: www.clanmaclellan.net Membership available, with dance classes for Scottish Sheri Lambert, Treasurer �owall������ Ma��owal����� Ma��owall����� A.A.C.Farquharson, MC of P.O. Box 5399 Ma��ow�ll��� Ma��ow�ll� M��ow�ll����� Clan Baird Society Worldwide Country Dance most Friday evenings in Gardenvale. Invercauld ��ll�������� M���ll�������� Ma���ll�������� Membership is open to those descended THE CLAN Vernon Hills, IL 60061 Ma���llo������� M���llo������� Ma���lla��� Clan Macpherson Association from Baird, Barde, Bard, Beard, Beaird, Brd, CLAN MACDONALD YARRAVILLE Ma��l���o������� Ma�����o��� M�����o������ Clan Macpherson welcomes enquiries from Macphersons CAMPBELL SOCIETY and members of our Associated families. For information Bayard, Bardt, Barth and Biard or varied Hon Chief: Mrs Christina Milne Wilson Ma��al������ M��o�l���� Ma�����l���� OF AUSTRALIA Ma��ow�ll���� Ma��owa������ M��ow�� Clan MacLeod contact your local representative, our web site spellings of the name of Scottish origin. Contact: Secretary Ma�����a�� M’Gowall� Ma��a��ll� Societies of Australia www.clan-macpherson.org/branches, or the ‘Official In addition to the Society newsletter and the opportunity The Secretary Ma����a�� Ma����a�� � Ma������ Clan Macpherson Association’ Facebook page [email protected] ^ƉĞůůŝŶŐsĂƌŝĂƚŝŽŶƐDĂLJsĂƌLJŽƌKŵŝƚƚŚĞDĂĐ͕DĐ to associate with fellow clansman members may The Society exists for the benefit of all Clan Farquharson Association Australia Membership is open to MacLeods, A hereditary clan society formed by the children of PO Box 585 Septs (of any spelling) and descendants. Australia. John L Macpherson Canada. John C Gillies query the Society geneologist. For information write: its members. [email protected] [email protected] Norman Hume Macdonald and Johan McKenzie SPRINGWOOD, NSW 2777 Askey MacAndie MacCorkill phone +1 705 4460 280 All Campbells or descendants of phone +61 2 4871 1123 Dr. Debra J. Baird, President Macdonald (nee Munro) who departed Scotland in 1854. or by Email to: [email protected] Beaton MacAskill MacCrimmon Campbells and members of Clan Septs Scotland. Bill Macpherson 3491 County Road 3459, Haleyville, AL 35565 Bethune MacAulay MacGillechallum New Zealand. Tim McPherson Email: [email protected] are most welcome to join the Society. [email protected] [email protected] Caskie MacCabe MacRaild Norie phone +64 3 234 5098 phone +44 1577 830 430 Regional Directors for Australia Branches exist in NSW, Vic, Qld & SA. Harold MacCaig MacWilliam Tolmie David and Patricia Benfell For information contact the USA. Ken Croker Clan Museum. Curator CLAN FERGUSSON SOCIETY Lewis MacClure Norman Williamson [email protected] Email: [email protected] National Secretary Judy Campbell Clan Donnachaidh [email protected] OF NORTH AMERICA NSW, ACT & Qld - Peter Macleod 02 4397 3161 phone +1 559 658 6189 phone +44 1540 673 332 website: www.clanbairdsociety.com Ph: (08) 8260 3637 Society of New South Wales Inc., (1 April to 30 October) One of the oldest Highland Clans, Victoria & Tas - David Dickie 03 9337 4384 Email:[email protected] Australia stretches back in history to the South Australia - Nicole Walters 0415 654 836 www.clan-campbell.org.au Duncan Robertson Reid founder of Scotland’s monarchy, Western Australia - Ruth MacLeod 08 9364 6334 King Fergus 1. Email: [email protected] People who bear any of the above names or names of any of the THE CLAN MACRAE SOCIETY OF Septs of the Clan (see advertisement from CA USA) are invited President: BJ Ferguson AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND to join with us in our activities to promote Clan Donnachaidh, Please address inquiries to: Clan Hope of Craighall Society “The Children of Duncan” by participating in the various activities For all of the name and lineage of Hope If your surname is MacRae, Clan Campbell Society conducted by Scottish Societies. B. J. Ferguson, President, CFSNA INTERNATIONAL & USA AUSTRALIA or you are descended from a For information & membership application, contact 192 Hawthorne Hill Rd, Jasper, GA USA 30143 (North America) Gordon Robertson President: Convenor: person having the surname A society for Campbells, members of 58/157 Marconi Rd. Bonnells Bay NSW 2264 Richard Rex Hope Stephen Hope MacRae (any spelling) or that of recognized septs, their descendants, and their [email protected] [email protected] friends. Recognized septs include: Ballantine, a Sept of the Clan then you are Burnett, Burns, Caddell, Calder, Harris, Membership Chair: Hastings, Loudon, MacArthur, MacConachie, Janet Hope Higton eligible to join our Society. MacDiamid, MacIver, McKellar, MacKelvie, CLAN DONNACHAIDH SOCIETY [email protected] MacKessock, MacNichol, MacTavish, Australian Contact: MacThomas, Moore, Muir, Orr, Pinkerton, Chief Gilbert Robertson of Struan www.clanhope.org www.clanhopeaustralia.org Thomas, Thompson. Membership invited to all who share the Sept names: Duncan, Robertson, Reid, Collier, Roslyn MacRae 0412 291 054 email: [email protected] Dobson, Hobson, MacConachie, MacIvor, MacJames, MacLagan, Stark, and all variations. Clan MacInnes Prospective members inquire to: The Clan Fraser Society of North America is one of the five NZ Contact: Sue Tregoweth email: [email protected] Worldwide Clan Society Branches: authorized national societies operating worldwide under the International Association of Clan Secretary ([email protected]) authority of the Rt Hon. Lady Saltotm, Chief of the Name of Clan Campbell Society, (NA) UK: London & Southern Counties * Rannoch & Highlands Canada: Ontario * Western Canada Fraser, and the Rt. Hon. Lord Lovat, Chief of Clan Fraser of MacInnes (Aonghais) 963 Plum Tree Lane Australia: New So. Wales * Victoria * Queensland * Western Australia Lovat. Members receive a newsletter, “The Nessie’ and support in  New Zealand: North Island of New Zealand All spelling variants of MacInnes are welcome Fenton, MI 48430 doing genealogical research. All those bearing the name of Fraser, www.ccsna.org USA: Arizona * Carolinas * Florida * Gulf Coast * Mid-Atlantic *    worldwide: (Mc)Angus, (Mc)Kinnis, (Mc)Innis, Mid-West * Northeast * Northern California * Pacific Northwest * Texas recognized Septs thereof and their descendants are cordially (Mc)Ginnis, (Mc)Ninch, (Mc)Neish, (Mc)Canse, South * Rocky Mountains * Southern California * Upper Mid-West invited to contact the following for membership information:  Clan MacTavish,U.S.A. (Mc)Masters, (Mc)Innes, (Mac)Masters Under the patronage of Chief Steven Learn more about Clan Donnachaidh * our History * Membership * our Clan Museum MacTavish of Dunardry invites you to join us in Bruar, Scotland * the DNA Project * locate a Branch near you. Visit our website:  www.clanmacinnes.org in celebrating our history. Cash, Holmes, Charles Diman http://www.donnachaidh.com/ cfsna.com    Eric Perry, Director-Member Services 14 Jakes Lane, MacTavish, Stephenson, Stevens, Thompson, Membership Chairman Facebook: The Clan Donnachaidh Society  Dexter, ME 04930; [email protected] Thomson, Todd & other variants. 3413 Sunnybrook Dr. Email: [email protected]  www.clanmactavish.org  Charlotte, NC 28210 Membership Info: Email: [email protected]  [email protected] or  PO Box 686, Milford, OH 45150-0686  Clan Macnachtan Association Worldwide Sir Malcolm F. Macnaghten of Macnaghten, Bart - Chief of Clan Chairman - Peter McNaughton - 360-686-8451 We welcome membership from all Scots named MacNaughton Clan Davidson Society in Australia Inc. or any of the Septs on our Website: Contact the Membership CHEIF: Grant Davidson of Davidston cordially invites to membership all who bear one of the Clan Secretary, Vice-Chairman or Regional Commissioners in: Names, and all who can trace their descent from an Australia - Regional Commissioner - Bruce McNaught ancestor bearing one of these Names: Davidson; Davison; Dawson; Davis; Davie; Davey; Davy; Day; +61 7 3266 2047 [email protected] Dye;Dyson; Dawson; Dea; Dean; Deane; Deas; W. Canada - Regional Commissioner - Miles MacNaughton Deason; Dees; Dee; Dey; Daw; Dow; Dhai; Kay; 250-999-9636 [email protected] Keay; Key; Keys; MacDade; MacDaid; MacDavid; MacDavett; MacDagnie; MacDagny; MacDhai; McKeddie. New Zealand - Regional Commissioner - John Macnaughtan In addition we welcome into membership all who have a family +64 9 441 4984 [email protected] association with the Clan Davidson. USA - Membership Secretary - Mary Nivison Burton Applications may be made on our website www.clandavidson.org. 541-401-2613 [email protected] au or contact the Hon. Secretary Mr Dennis Hill, J.P, P.O. Box 519 Membership inquiries WWW.CLANMACNAUGHTON.NET Baulkham Hills NSW 1755 [email protected] 0431 527 662 welcomed from MacGregors Clan Dunbar of all spellings and Septs of The House of Gospatric the Earl Gregor Grier MacAdams MacNish Magruder Eligible blood or marriage, all descendants of The McGehee Gregory King Peter Fletcher CLAN DONALD Gospatric: Dunbar, Clugston, Corbett, Dundas, Gregg Lecky Black and many others Edgar, Grey, Heryng, Home, Knox, Nisbett, AUSTRALIA Jeanne P. Lehr “under the patronage of the High Peddie, Strickland, Washington, Wedderburn and 11 Ballas Crt. Council of the Chiefs of Clan Donald” all spelling variations of each name. Also all other St. Louis, MO 63131-3036 High Commissioner Mr Lachlan Macdonald families who were associated with The Gospatric. Phone: 314-432-28742, [email protected] State Commissioners Chieftain David C. Dunbar website: www.acgsus.org NSW Mr Lachlan Macdonald 16419 Carlton Vale Ct. Qld Mr A. Neil Macdonald Tomball, TX 77377-8488 SA Ms Therese McCutcheon CLAN MATHESON Vic Mr Norman A Macdonald Clan Gregor Society Australasia WA Ms Pamela McDonald SOCIETY All MacGregors and Septs of our Clan are invited to CLAN MACNICOL SOCIETY, INC. www.clandonaldaustralia.com Member of The Highland Clan MacNeacail Federation Chief of the Clan There is no joy without Clan Donald join one of the oldest Clan Societies in Scotland Est 1822. If you live in Australia or New Zealand, please Welcomes persons of the names Major Sir Fergus Matheson of contact our clan representative in Australia; Nicolson, Nicol, MacNicol in all spellings Matheson Frank McGregor 7th Baronet of Lochalsh Clan Gregor Society For membership inquiries, contact: Invites all Mathesons/Mathiesons or Kin PO Box 14 to join our Clan Society. Clan Mackintosh USA CANADA CLAN LESLIE Contact the Chief's Lieutenants in USA NORTH HOBART TAS 7002 Membership in Clan Mackintosh of North Jeremy Nicholson Jacques McNicoll Email: [email protected] America is available to all persons bearing the P.O. Box 501166 202 Berlioz Apt 203 U.S.A. Atlanta, GA 31150-1166 Web. www.clangregor.com SOCIETY name of any of the clans or septs of Clan Verdun, QC H3E 1B8 Canada Malcolm Matheson, III Mackintosh. Associate memberships are also [email protected] Email:[email protected] P.O.Box 307, The Plains, VA 20198 “Royal is my Race” available to those interested in the clan. www.clanmacnicol.org www.clanmacnicolcanada.com Tel: (540) 687-6836, Fax: (540) 687-5569 of Australia [email protected] Canada U.S.A. and New Zealand Mr. David J. Elder Margaret McIntosh, Secretary www.clanmatheson.org 46 Dunvegan Dr. 301 Smugglers View Clan Chief: Hon Alexander John Leslie Chatham, Ont. N7M 4Z8 Jeffersonville, VT 05464 Clan Cameron NSW Inc. Enquiries invited from Leslies around the world, Clan MacNeil Association as well as the Septs of Clan Leslie: OF AUSTRALIA Clan Moffat Society 2018 Australian Gathering Clan Donald, U.S.A., Inc. Abernethy, Bartholomew, Cairney, Lang, Membership is open only to persons of For all enquiries about the clan and Details on website http://www.clan-cameron.org.au the blood of Macdonald, however spelled Moore etc in all their spellings. Madam Jean Moffat, Chief of the or of the blood of a recognized associate membership contact. Name and Arms of the Family of President: James Lachlan Cameron family or is related by marriage or legal Contact:Conta Malcolmct: J Barrie W. Leslie Leslie D.Ua. Moffat, welcomes Moffats of all adoption to either of these write for more 43 Rosedale Rd. John McNeil spellings. Spouses and those legally [email protected] info and a complete Sept list. 117/303 Spring Street. Gordon, NSW, 2072, Australia. 21 Laurel Avenue, Linden Park, adopted by Moffats are also eligible Secretary: Lynnette Cameron Diane Carey-Schmitz Kearney’s Spring, Qld, 4350, Australia. for membership. 1685 Casitas Avenue Phone:Phone: +61 +61 2 7 46359418 83582262 SA 5065 [email protected] Pasadena, CA 91103, [email protected] • www.clanleslie.org Email [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] www.clanleslie.org Website: http://www.ClanMoffat.org/

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Leonard Montgomery President [email protected] www.clanmontgomery.org

        Scottish Heritage USA, Inc. P.O. Box 457    Pinehurst, NC 28370   Welcomes membership of anyone interested in the exchange of  people and ideas between Scotland and the United States.           Write or phone for our free brochure. www.scottishheritageusa.org email: [email protected] (910) 295-4448 Clan Scott Australia Group Scottish Associations Clan Chief: The Duke of Buccleuch K.B.E Commissioner: Heather de Sylva and Societies Membership welcome from Scotts and Septs: Balwearie, Harden, Laidlaw, Geddes & Langlands. Info: Secretary, PO Box 320, Maclean, NSW, 2463 Australian Scottish Communtiy (Qld) Inc. E: [email protected] Promoter of International Tartan Day, W: clanscottaustraliagroup.moonfruit.com Brisbane, Queensland PO Box 3188, South Brisbane 4101 Bi-Monthly Newsletter, All things Murray Clan Society Scottish Email: [email protected]  Clan Shaw Society All persons of Scottish Descent of North America Invites membership or inquires from all: welcome. www.aussie-scots.org.au,Email: ,,('! /'+*. $+- )#) #-.&', -# '*1'/#" $-+) Shaw, Ayson, Adamson, Esson, MacAy, [email protected], Ph 07 3359 8195 0-- 34. *" /&# $+((+2'*% (('#" $ )'('#. MacHay, Shiach, Sheach, Sheath, Seith,  (*# 1#.'*.)+-#0*.)+-#(#)'*%+- 3 Seth, Skaith, Scaith and Shay. 0--'## 1#.',#-3,#-) '() (#) (( Scottish Gaelic Society of Victoria )# ( *", ("'*% Mike Shaw * * " !+*/ !/ */&#!+*/ !/ Secretary www.scottishgaelicsocietyvic.org '((' )0-- 3 + #-/0-- 3 2403 West Cranford Founded in 1905 +-"#-+-#.!#*/  ) -'"%#1#   Denison, TX 75020  ), #(('1#-   3+)'..'*%   Scottish Gaelic Choir: Wednesdays 10:30 am to Clan Sinclair Australia 12:30 pm during school terms at The Kildara Centre, rear of Membership and enquiries from all Sinclairs, 39 Stanhope Street, Malvern. Sinclair Septs and Sinclair descendants Clan Pollock Language Class: Wednesdays 7:00 to 8:30 pm Among the most ancient families of Scotland. If For further info contact you are a descendant of Pollock, Pollok, Pook, during school terms at the Celtic Club, Cnr Queen Polk, Polke, Paulk, Poalke, Poulk, Poolke, Pogue President Secretary and Latrobe Streets, Melbourne. - you are cordially invited to contact: WayneSinclair Liane Sinclair A. D. Pollock, Jr. (004173) 9 814673 4717461 (03) 9348 2663 Contact Maurice Fowler 0408 223 277 PO Box 404 Email: [email protected] Greenville, KY 42345 e-mail: [email protected] E: [email protected] The Society of St. Andrew of Scotland Clan Skene Association, Inc. Caledonian Club (Queensland) Limited Invites membership from Skene and Of ABN 30 093 578 860 septs Cariston, Carney/Carnie, Florida West (Sarasota, FL) Currehill, Dyas, Dyce, Dyer, Hall, Invites membership of all people of Halyard/Hallyard, MacGalliard, Scottish descent or association. Rennie, and Skains. 2017 Spring Schedule: Feb. 4: Scottish Games AlDorna McGalliard Comp Jack Vaudin, Hon Secretary, P.O. Box 3233 Mar. 25: Thistle Ball The Secretary,South Brisbane,P.O. Box BC,3233, QLD, South 4101, Brisbane, Australia BC,. PrePresidentsident Apr. 2: Kirkin’ O’ Tartans 273103 Amy Sumners Clegg Alle Drivey QLD, 4101, Australia. www.standrewsociety.com May 6: Annual General Luncheon www.standrewsociety.com Summerville,Gray, GA, SC 31032 29485 Summer Socials: TBA Email:Email: [email protected] [email protected] FOUNDED 1974 Contact: Robert Howard, President 941-376-5514 FOUNDED 1974 St. Andrewís Society Email: [email protected] St. Andrewís Society RossRoss Clan in Australia Clan in Australia The Stewart Society Web site: www.caledonianclub.org of Vermont TheThe clan is active again in Australia clan is active again in Australia for information contact Welcomes Stewarts, however spelled, by name, ofP .VermontO. Box 484 Commander Des Ross(By appointment David Ross Bt Chief of Clan Ross and Balnagowan) for information contact Commander Des Ross birth, or descent, from all over the world. Annual (By appointment David Ross Bt Chief of Clan Ross and Balnagowan) Essex Junction,P.O. Bo xVT 48 405453 Gathering in historic, Stewart-related properties in We would be pleased to hear from anyone with Ross Clan Essex Junction, VT 05453 We wouldheritage and interest. be pleased to hear from anyone Scotland. Newsletter. Annual magazine. Invites membership inquiries. contact Commander Des Ross at with [email protected] Clan heritage and interest Please inquire: Invites membership inquiries. The Secretary contact Commander Des Ross 53 George Street, Edinburgh EH2 2HT, David Campbell - President (802) 878-8663 at [email protected] Tel/Fax 0131 220 4512 www.stewartsociety.org David Campbell - President (802) 878-8663

Victorian Scottish Union Established 1905 Clan Sutherland Society Umbrella group representing the interest of North America, Inc. of Scottish Clans and Societies in Victoria. The Society cordially invites membership of Affiliated Clans & Societies for 2013-2014: all Sutherlands (however the name is spelled) and of the associated families: Cheyne, Duffus, Gray, Frederith, Mowat and Oliphant. Ballarat Highland Dancing Geelong Highland Gathering Association Balmoral Highland Dancing Society Geelong Scottish Dance Richard Langford Begonia City Highland Dancing Society Glenbrae Celtic Dancers 1106 Horshoe Lane Brunswick Scottish Society Horsham & District Highland Dancing Club Blacksburg, VA 24060 Clan Cameron Kilmore Celtic Festival e-mail: [email protected] Clan Donald Victoria Maryborough Highland Society Illinois Saint Andrew Society Clan Grant Mornington Peninsula Caledonian Society Illinois’ oldest, largest Scottish Clan Lamont Australia Scottish Country Dance Victoria Society Clan Macdonald Yarraville Inc St Andrews First Aid organization and owner of The Scottish Clan Mackenzie of Australia The Robert Burns Club of Melbourne Clan Sutherland Society Home. A unique “assisted living” Clan Maclean Australia The Royal Caledonian Society of Australia Clan Sinclair Association Warrnambool & District Caledonian Society The Society welcomes membership of all facility located in a beautiful wooded Glenmaggie Scottish Folk Festival Warrnambool Caledonian Highland Dancing Society bearers of the Sutherland name and any of setting. their septs- (Cheyne, Duffus, Frederith, Mowat (or any variation of the spelling). For more information on Society membership and Marie Hodgkinson Jan Macdonald: Secretary 212 MacKenzie Street programs or The Scottish Home, contact Victorian Scottish Union Toowoomba, 4350 T: 03 9360 9829 M: 0438 584 930 Queensland, Australia Gus Noble, President E: [email protected] e-mail: [email protected] www.victorianscottishunion.com http://goldenvale.wix.com/clansutherlandaus 708-447-5092 or www.chicago-scots.org

Page 22 • North American Edition • September 2017 THE SCOTTISH BANNER SCOTTISH BANNER EVENTS Having a Clan event? Know of a highland games? Know where the pipes will be playing? Let Scottish Banner readers know of Scottish events both near and far with the Scottish Banner events page. Leonard Montgomery Send us your community event, concert, meeting or anything with a Scottish twist! Please submit events either online at www.scottishbanner.com/events or email [email protected]. President Please ensure you submit your event in the exact format we use below, events not submitted in this way cannot be guaranteed to be printed. Events will run both in print and online and is a free service. [email protected] www.clanmontgomery.org OCTOBER 2017 8 - 10 Fort George - The Highland Military Tattoo CANADA USA A showcase of the best of Highland and military culture 5 Woodridge, IL - 16th Annual Kilted Classic Golf and traditions, set against the stunning backdrop SEPTEMBER 2017 SEPTEMBER 2017 Tournament of Fort George near Inverness. Info: + 44(0)131  Dressed in kilts of every color, golfers follow the     2 - 3 Canmore, AB - Canmore Highland Games 1 - 3 Waukesha, WI - The Wisconsin Highland Games 3108701 or www.highlandmilitarytattoo.co.uk Celebrate Scotland the shadow of the Rocky Mountains. Celtic fun for the entire family at Waukesha Expo skirl of a bagpiper around a course and play  9 Pitlochry - Pitlochry Highland Games Info: 403-678-9454 or www.canmorehighlandgames.ca. the game that many regard as one of Scotland’s  Center. Info: www.wisconsinscottish.org Traditional Highland games featuring dancing, pipe  Scottish Heritage USA, Inc. greatest inventions, presented by Chicago Scots 2 Vancouver, BC - West End Fall Frolic 2 - 3 Altamont, NY - Capital District Scottish Games band competitions and, of course, heavy events P.O. Box 457 at Seven Bridges Golf Club. Info: 708 426 7126   Pinehurst, NC 28370 The West End Scottish Country Dance Club welcomes Scottish events, entertainment and more and track & field at Pitlochry Recreation Ground.  everyone to the seventh annual Fall Frolic. Start or www.chicagoscots.org/kiltedclassic2017  at Altamont Fair Grounds, 129 Grand Info: www.pitlochryhighlandgames.co.uk Welcomes membership of anyone interested in the exchange of the new season dancing old and new favourites 7 Laurinburg, NC - Scotland County Highland Games  St. Info: www.scotgames.com 11 Glasgow - The HNC Music - Piping  people and ideas between Scotland and the United States. to live music. Info: www.rscdsvancouver.org Celebrate Scotland at the North Carolina Rural Heritage  2 - 3 Pleasanton, CA - The 152nd Scottish The only course which has a bespoke Music First  2 Calgary, AB - Calgary Highland Games Center, 13040 X-Way Rd. Info: www.schgnc.org         Write or phone for our free brochure. Highland Gathering and Games Study Unit for performance on the Highland www.scottishheritageusa.org One of the oldest gatherings in North Celebrate Scottish culture, cuisine, competition 7 Henderson, NV - Pipes & Pours 2017 - LVPB’s Bagpipe at The National Piping Centre. Info: +44 America at Springbank Park for All Seasons. and entertainment at the Alameda County Annual Whisky Tasting Fundraiser (0) 141 353 0220 or www.thepipingcentre.co.uk email: [email protected] Info: www.calgaryhighlandgames.org (910) 295-4448 Fairgrounds, presented by The Caledonian Club of Pipes & Pours whisky tasting fundraiser, benefiting 16 Bonar Bridge - Invercharron Highland Games 9 - 10 Trenton, ON - Trenton Scottish Irish Festival San Francisco. Info: www.thescottishgames.com Las Vegas Pipe Band , a registered local non-profit, Traditionally the final games of the year, many Promoting and celebrating Celtic culture and heritage and the annual Celtic Thanksgiving Concert. This 5 - 10 Estes Park, CO - Clan MacRae Family of the Scottish Games Association league at Centennial Park. Info: www.trentonscottishirish.com event brings you the perfect traditional Scottish Clan Scott Australia Group Gathering results are decided at Invercharron, making Scottish Associations pairing of whisky and bagpipe music at 1794 9 Toronto, ON - The Gaelic Society of Toronto Presented by the Clan MacRae Society of North it the most exciting of the season, at Balblair Clan Chief: The Duke of Buccleuch K.B.E Amarone Way. Info: www.lasvegaspipeband.org Whisky Tasting Dinner & Fundraiser America with a variety of activities and events for Clan Farm. Info: www.invercharrongames.co.uk Commissioner: Heather de Sylva and Societies Gaelic-related event with Comunn Gàidhlig members. Info: Judy McRae [email protected]. 14 - 15 Ventura, CA - Ventura Seaside Highland Games 22 - Oct 1 Wigtown - Wigtown Book Festival Thoronto/The Gaelic Society of Toronto. The premier Scottish Event on the Central California Membership welcome from Scotts and Septs: 7 - 10 Estes Park, CO - Longs Peak Scottish-Irish Scotland’s National Book Town’s literary festival: Info: www.gaelicsocietytoronto.com Coast at Seaside Park, Ventura Co. Fairgrounds. Balwearie, Harden, Laidlaw, Geddes & Langlands. Highland Festival 240+ events. Info: www.wigtownbookfestival.com 13 Windsor, ON - RSCDS Windsor Open House Info: 818-886-4968 or www.seaside-games.com Info: Secretary, PO Box 320, Maclean, NSW, 2463 Immerse yourself in Celtic culture at the 28 - 29 Faskally Wood - Enchanted Forest: Oir An Uisge Australian Scottish Communtiy (Qld) Inc. Meet the Royal Scottish Country Dance Society highland festival in Estes Park. Info: (800) 14 Indianapolis, IN - Indianapolis Scottish Perthshire’s renowned sound and light show Promoter of International Tartan Day, Windsor Branch at 7:30 p.m. in Mackenzie Hall, 3277 E: [email protected] 90ESTES, 970-586-6308 or www.scotfest.com Highland Games & Festival offers visitors a unique opportunity to experience W: clanscottaustraliagroup.moonfruit.com Brisbane, Queensland Sandwich Street West. Info: www.rscdswindsor.org Presented by The Scottish Society of Indianapolis the outdoors, at night and with spectacular 7 - 10 Edinboro, PA - Edinboro Highland PO Box 3188, South Brisbane 4101 16 Orillia, ON - Gaelic Society of Toronto Picnic in Orillia and The Scottish Foundation of Indianapolis imagery. Info: www.enchantedforest.org.uk Games & Scottish Festival Bi-Monthly Newsletter, All things Pack a lunch and join us for some fun activities at German Park, 8600 S Meridian St. Info: Featuring music, dance, athletics, art, and camaraderie at Couchiching Beach Park, 140 www.indyscotgamesandfest.com OCTOBER 2017 Scottish Email: [email protected] food, and family gatherings at Edinboro Murray Clan Society  Canice St. Info: www.gaelicsocietytoronto.com 3 - 6 Glasgow - The National Piping Centre Clan Shaw Society All persons of Scottish Descent University. Info: 888-8GO-BORO or www. 20 - 22 Atlanta, GA - 45th Annual Stone of North America Invites membership or inquires from all: welcome. www.aussie-scots.org.au,Email: 30 Toronto, ON - Culture Days Drop-in Ceilidh Mountain Highland Games Adult Seasonal Piping Gathering ,,('! /'+*. $+- )#) #-.&', -# '*1'/#" $-+) edinboro.edu/events/highland-games Shaw, Ayson, Adamson, Esson, MacAy, [email protected], Ph 07 3359 8195 This is part of a cross-Canada celebration of different On the meadows of the Stone Mountain Park Themed workshops, practice time and small 0-- 34. *" /&# $+((+2'*% (('#" $ )'('#. MacHay, Shiach, Sheach, Sheath, Seith, 9 - 10 Columbus, IN - Columbus Scottish Festival  (*# 1#.'*.)+-#0*.)+-#(#)'*%+- 3 Seth, Skaith, Scaith and Shay. cultures. Free event and dance easy lots of fun ceilidh the sights and sounds of a Scottish Highland group lessons to improve your playing through A full weekend of Scottish fun at Bartholomew 0--'## 1#.',#-3,#-) '() (#) (( Scottish Gaelic Society of Victoria dances. This is a great way to experience a taste of Games presented in a uniquely southern style. this shared learning experience at the National )# ( *", ("'*% Mike Shaw Scottish social dance at Eastminster United Church, County Fairgrounds. Info: www.scottishfestival.org. Piping Centre. Info: www.thepipingcentre.co.uk * * " !+*/ !/ */&#!+*/ !/ Secretary www.scottishgaelicsocietyvic.org Info: 770 521-0228 or www.smhg.org. 310 Danforth Ave. Info: www.dancescottish.ca 9 Hermitage, TN - Middle Tennessee '((' )0-- 3 + #-/0-- 3 2403 West Cranford Founded in 1905 21 Sarasota, FL - Sarasota Celtic Music Festival 8 Falkirk - Glasgow to Edinburgh Canoe Challenge +-"#-+-#.!#*/  ) -'"%#1#   Denison, TX 75020 30 Montréal, QC - RSCDS Montreal Branch Workshop & Highland Games 2017 Paddle your way from Glasgow to Edinburgh  ), #(('1#-   3+)'..'*%   Scottish Gaelic Choir: Celebrate Celtic culture at Nathan Benderson Tea Dance In the heart of Music City Nashville focusing on the over two days and help raise funds for Wednesdays 10:30 am to Park. Info: www.celtoberfest.org The Montréal Branch of the Royal Scottish Country Highland athlete and to honor its growing amateur Kidney Cancer Scotland along the Union 28 - 29 Fayetteville, NC - Carolina Caledonian Fest 12:30 pm during school terms Dance Society social at Church of St. Andrew and St. Paul competitions. Also an outstanding musical talent Canal. Info: www.kcuk.org.uk/scotland Clan Sinclair Australia A festival honoring the Argyll Colony, America’s most at The Kildara Centre, rear of 3415 Redpath. Info: www.scdmontrealorg.weebly.com from the area providing entertainment throughout significant Highlander settlement at Campbellton 13 - 15 Inverness - Loch Ness Knit Fest Membership and enquiries from all Sinclairs, along with a great Clan experience often described 39 Stanhope Street, Malvern. Landing. Info: www.caledonianfest.com International knitting festival. Info: Sinclair Septs and Sinclair descendants OCTOBER 2017 as a big family reunion at The Hermitage, 4580 www.lochnessknitfest.com Clan Pollock Language Class: Wednesdays 7:00 to 8:30 pm 5 - 8 Vancouver, BC - Scottish Dance Teachers Alliance 28 - 29 Richmond, VA - Central Virginia For further info contact Rachel’s Lane. Info: www.midtenngames.com 20 - 31 Edinburgh - Scottish International Among the most ancient families of Scotland. If during school terms at the Celtic Club, Cnr Queen North American Conference and Scholarships Celtic Festival & Highland Games you are a descendant of Pollock, Pollok, Pook, 9 North Riverside, IL - Scottish American Storytelling Festival Polk, Polke, Paulk, Poalke, Poulk, Poolke, Pogue A weekend of learning with the SDTA - great instructors, A weekend of Celtic fun at Richmond Raceway President Secretary and Latrobe Streets, Melbourne. History Forum A celebration of live storytelling, oral traditions - you are cordially invited to contact: WayneSinclair Liane Sinclair fun classes, and events at the Pinnacle Harbourfront Complex, 600 E Laburnum Ave Info: 804- Hotel. Info: www.facebook.com/SDTA2017 At the Scottish Home (Heritage Hall) 2800 and cultural diversity, with Scottish and A. D. Pollock, Jr. (03) 9873 4761 (03) 9348 2663 Contact Maurice Fowler 0408 223 277 356-1093 or www.vacelticfestival.com 0417 146 174 Des Plaines Ave. Open to the public and international storytellers and musicians. PO Box 404 Email: [email protected] 6 - 8 Dartmouth, NS - RSCDS Nova Scotia 28 Bakersfield, CA - Bakersfield Celtic Music Festival Greenville, KY 42345 free to attend. Info: 708 447 5092. Info: www.tracscotland.org/festivals e-mail: [email protected] E: [email protected] Branch 35th Anniversary Fall Workshop The great tradition of Scottish and Irish music at 21 Ballindalloch, Moray - The Dramathon Scottish country dance classes, ceilidh and 9 Quarryville, PA - 4th Annual Covenanter Kern County Fairgrounds. Info: www.kernscot.org The Society of St. Andrew more at Christ Church Parish Hall, 61 Dundas Scottish Festival and Highland Games Run from Glenfarclas to Glenfiddich, pick up St. Info: www.rscdsnovascotia.ca. Celebrate Scotland at 1199 Valley Rd. stamps along the way and get single malt samples of Scotland at the end. Love running and whisky? Time to cross Caledonian Club 6 - 9 Canmore, AB - Scots Gathering Info: www.oldcovchurch.com SCOTLAND Clan Skene Association, Inc. (Queensland) Limited the streams. Info: www.thedramathon.com Invites membership from Skene and Of ABN 30 093 578 860 in the Canadian Rockies 9 Gaithersburg, MD - MacMillan SEPTEMBER 2017 septs Cariston, Carney/Carnie, Florida West (Sarasota, FL) Unleash Your Inner Scot! Explore the arts with Pipe Band Celtic Ceilidh 27 Edinburgh - Ceilidh 1 - 3 Dunoon - Clan Lamont Society Annual Currehill, Dyas, Dyce, Dyer, Hall, Invites membership of all people of dancing, music and needlework workshops. Learn Come join us for a special evening to The Annasach Ceilidh Band provide the live music Halyard/Hallyard, MacGalliard, Gathering: ‘Hands Across the Seas’ Scottish descent or association. new things with whisky tasting and cultural lectures. at this ceilidh dance with a caller at Counting Rennie, and Skains. 2017 Spring Schedule: support the MacMillan United Pipe Bands Full programme of activity in Dunoon Burgh Hall Feb. 4: Scottish Games House,West Nicolson St. Info: www.annasach.co.uk Jack Vaudin, Hon Secretary, P.O. Box 3233 Hosted by St. Andrew-Caledonian Society of Calgary at Gaithersburg Hilton Inn, 620 Perry including sailing trip to Loch Striven to the Manse Clan AlDorna McGalliard Comp Mar. 25: Thistle Ball The Secretary, P.O. Box 3233, South Brisbane, BC, South Brisbane, BC, QLD, 4101, Australia. and the Royal Scottish Country Dance Society, Parkway. Info: [email protected] 27 Bowmore, Isle Of Islay - Theatre PrePresidentsident Apr. 2: Kirkin’ O’ Tartans Lamont Society HQ, formal dinner and ceilidh. There 273103 Amy Sumners Clegg Alle Drivey QLD, 4101, Australia. www.standrewsociety.com Calgary Branch. Info: www.calgaryscots.org May 6: Annual General Luncheon www.standrewsociety.com will also be films, children’s activities, workshops, an of Drams Whisky Festival Summerville,Gray, GA, SC 31032 29485 15 - 17 Lincoln, NH - New Hampshire Summer Socials: TBA 7 - 15 Cape Breton Island, NS - Celtic Colours exhibition of Lamont history over the years in the Morning lectures explain the linear process of Email:Email: [email protected] [email protected] Highland Games & Festival Nine days of Celtic music, energy and excitement. Burgh Hall. Info: www.clanlamontsociety.com. whisky making - Malting, Mashing, Distillation, FOUNDED 1974 A celebration of Scottish heritage at Loon Maturation, Libation/Marketing/Nosing and Tasting. Contact: Robert Howard, President 941-376-5514 FOUNDED 1974 St. Andrewís Society Info: 888 355-7744 or www.celtic-colours.com. Mountain Resort, 60 Loon Mountain Rd. 2 - 9 Shetland Islands - Follow the Vikings Email: [email protected] St. Andrewís Society 13 - 15 Halifax, NS - The Great Canadian Roadshow & Festival Afternoons offer Peat Cutting, Gaelic and English RossRoss Clan in Australia Clan in Australia Web site: www.caledonianclub.org Info: 1-800-358-7268 or www.nhscot.org. The Stewart Society of Vermont Genealogy Summit Experience Viking heritage on a scale never before Distillery Tours, Whisky Tastings, Ceilidh Corner, TheThe clan is active again in Australia clan is active again in Australia 15 - 17 Timber Ridge, WV - Scottish Weekend for information contact Welcomes Stewarts, however spelled, by name, ofP .VermontO. Box 484 The National Genealogy Conference featuring all seen in Shetland. Info: www.shetland.gov.uk. Independent Bottlers, Independent Distillers and more Commander Des Ross(By appointment David Ross Bt Chief of Clan Ross and Balnagowan) for information contact Commander Des Ross birth, or descent, from all over the world. Annual Scottish country dance event which emphasizes at Bowmore Hall. Info: www.theatreofdrams.scot (By appointment David Ross Bt Chief of Clan Ross and Balnagowan) Essex Junction,P.O. Bo xVT 48 405453 Canadian speakers, includes Scottish ancestry at the 2 - 3 Kinross - The Mary Queen of Scots Festival Gathering in historic, Stewart-related properties in the best in live music, fine teaching, and “controlled We would be pleased to hear from anyone with Ross Clan Essex Junction, VT 05453 Lord Nelson Hotel. Info: www.cangensummit.ca Celebrate the rich cultural and history and heritage 28 Perth - 68th Perth All Scotland Accordion heritage and interest. Scotland. Newsletter. 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Wear your ACROSS: 1 Hampdenpark, 9 Hightae, 10 Wattles, 11 Gab, 12 Tallies, 29 - 30 Colorado Springs, CO - The of Australia facility located in a beautiful wooded Clan Sinclair Association Warrnambool & District Caledonian Society tartan. Light Scottish fare will be served after the The Society welcomes membership of all Glenmaggie Scottish Folk Festival Warrnambool Caledonian Highland Dancing Society Colorado Military Taptoo 13 Average, 14 Sun, 15 Least, 17 Serfs, 18 Judge, 20 Trews, 22 Cap, 24 Bonnier, bearers of the Sutherland name and any of setting. service in the lower all. Handicapped Accessible. their septs- (Cheyne, Duffus, Frederith, Ample Parking. Info: Keith McKee 519-455-5760. Military Music Spectacle at the Pikes Peak 25 Heather, 26 Dee, 27 Thistle, 28 Roubles, 29 Glenkinglas. Mowat (or any variation of the spelling). For more information on Society membership and Marie Hodgkinson Jan Macdonald: Secretary Center. Info: www.heroshow.org Victorian Scottish Union 28 Windsor, ON - RSCDS Windsor Ball DOWN:1Highland Dancing, 2, Muthill, 3 Dregs, 4 Newbattle, 5 Antler, 6 Kilpatrickhills, 212 MacKenzie Street programs or The Scottish Home, contact 30 Dixon, CA - Dixon Scottish Highland Games Toowoomba, 4350 T: 03 9360 9829 M: 0438 584 930 Annual ball with the Royal Scottish Country Dance 7 Shotts 8 Islets, 16 Afterdeck 18 Jabots, 19 Epistle, 21 Seagull, 23 Parish, 25 Heron Queensland, Australia Gus Noble, President E: [email protected] Society Windsor Branch at 7:30 p.m. in Mackenzie Hall, Celebrate Scotland at Dixon Fairgrounds, 655 e-mail: [email protected] www.victorianscottishunion.com http://goldenvale.wix.com/clansutherlandaus 708-447-5092 or www.chicago-scots.org 3277 Sandwich Street West. Info: www.rscdswindsor.org South First St. Info: www.scotsindixon.org

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IN THE SCOTTISH KITCHEN 50g/1¾oz. lard or vegetable shortening Method: 1 tbsp. lemon juice Put the orange wedge, whisky, passion 100ml/3½fl oz. chilled water fruit syrup, apple juice and cranberry 150g/5½ oz. butter juice into a cocktail shaker. Add a handful For the filling: of crushed ice and shake hard. To serve, 8 quails’ eggs strain the cocktail into a highball glass fill 600ml/20fl oz. milk with crushed ice. Garnish with the apple. pinch saffron 2 bay leaves Bakewell tart 6 black peppercorns pinch salt 200g/7oz. salmon 200g/7oz. smoked haddock 200g/7oz. cod 70g/2½oz. sunflower margarine 70g/2½oz. flour salt and freshly ground white pepper small bunch chives, chopped small bunch flat leaf parsley, chopped 125g/4½oz. jumbo king prawns, cooked and peeled dollop mustard 1 free-range egg, beaten Ingredients: 30g/1¼oz. butter 1 tbsp. sesame seeds For the pastry: Pea and mint soup splash rapeseed oil 300g/10½oz. plain flour, lemon wedges, to serve Method: Ingredients: plus extra for dusting To make the pastry, mix the flour with 1 litre/1 pint 15fl oz. water Method: 125g/4oz. cold unsalted the salt and rub in the lard or vegetable salt For the potato salad, boil the new potatoes butter, cut into cubes shortening until the mixture resembles large handful fresh mint, leaves only in a large saucepan of salted water until 30g/1oz.sugar breadcrumbs. Add the lemon juice and 500g/1lb 2oz. fresh peas (shelled weight) tender (about 12 minutes). Add the kale 2 free-range eggs water to form a dough and knead until salt and freshly ground black pepper and cucumber to the pan three minutes 2 tbsp. milk (optional) smooth. Roll out the pastry on a floured drizzle olive oil before the potatoes are ready and boil until work surface to form a rectangle and dot For the filling: 200ml/7fl oz. crème fraîche all of the ingredients are tender. Drain two thirds of the rectangle with one third 225g/8oz. unsalted butter, softened 4 slices Parma ham, fried or grilled well and set aside. For the dressing, whisk of the butter. Fold the unbuttered end of 225g/8oz. caster sugar until crisp (optional), to serve together the vinegar, rapeseed oil and the rectangle over the middle third, fold 225g/8oz. ground almonds lemon juice in a jug until well combined. Method: again and seal the open ends by gently 3 free-range eggs Season, to taste, with salt and freshly Bring the water to the boil in a large pan pressing them together. Cover with cling 1 lemon, finely grated zest only ground black pepper. Set aside. For the and add a generous pinch of salt. Add film and chill for 15 minutes. Roll out the 50g/2oz. plain flour herring, sprinkle the oatmeal onto a plate the mint leaves and bring the liquid pastry again and repeat the process with 1 jar raspberry jam and season with salt and freshly ground back to the boil. Add the peas and cook another third of the butter, then repeat flaked almonds, for sprinkling black pepper. Brush both sides of each for 2-3 minutes, until the peas are just again with the remaining butter. Roll out herring fillet with a little of the mustard, Method: tender and bright green. Strain the mint the pastry to a rectangle once more, fold then roll in the seasoned oatmeal until For the pastry, place the flour, butter and and peas, reserving the cooking liquid, it in thirds then wrap in cling film and completely covered. Heat the butter and sugar into a food processor and pulse and transfer the peas and mint to a food return it to the fridge. To make the filling, the oil in a large, heavy-based frying pan until the mixture resembles breadcrumbs. processor. Allow to cool for 3-4 minutes. cook the quails’ eggs in a pan of boiling over a medium heat. Add the coated Add one of the eggs and pulse until the Add just enough of the cooking liquid to water for two minutes then plunge into herring fillets to the pan, skin-side up (do mixture comes together to form a rough cover the peas and mint, then blend for cold water and set aside to cool. Warm the this in batches if necessary). Gently press dough. If the dough is too dry, add a bit 1-2 minutes, to create a smooth, bright milk in a wide saucepan with the saffron, down on each of the herring fillets using of milk. Shape the dough into a ball and green purée. Season, to taste, with salt bay leaves, peppercorns and salt. Bring to a fish slice so that they stay flat. Fry for wrap in cling film. Chill in the fridge for 20 and freshly ground black pepper and a gentle simmer then poach the salmon, 1-2 minutes, or until the oats are golden- minutes. Unwrap the dough and discard add a generous drizzle of olive oil. Add haddock and cod in the milk until just brown, then turn over and continue to fry the cling film. Turn the dough out onto 140ml/4½fl oz. of the crème fraîche cooked through. Remove the fish, break on the other side for a further 1-2 minutes, a floured work surface and roll out until to the pea and mint purée and pulse it into flakes then set it aside and strain or until the herrings are cooked through large enough to line a 30x20cm/12x8in in the blender for a few seconds, until the milk through a sieve into a clean bowl. and the oats are golden-brown. Remove cake tin. Line the tin with the pastry, then combined. To serve, pour equal amounts Melt the margarine in a clean saucepan the herring fillets from the pan using a place into the fridge to chill for a further 30 of the soup into four warmed bowls. then add the flour, stir to form a roux slotted spoon and set aside to drain on minutes. Preheat the oven to 200C/400F/ Add a neat tablespoon of crème fraîche and cook gently for two minutes. Add the kitchen paper. Place the boiled potatoes, Gas 6. Line the chilled tart case with a sheet into the centre of each and, if you wish, strained milk and bring the sauce to a kale and cucumber into a serving bowl, stir of greaseproof paper and fill with baking garnish with the crisp Parma ham. simmer, stirring all the time, then season in the spring onions, and drizzle over the with salt and freshly ground white pepper. beans. Bake for 15-20 minutes, or until the dressing. Mix well and season, to taste, with Add the chopped chives and parsley pastry is lightly golden-brown. Remove Fish in oats with salt and freshly ground black pepper. To to the sauce, gently fold in the fish and the paper and beans and brush the pastry potato salad serve, divide the herring equally between transfer the mixture to an ovenproof dish. all over with the remaining beaten egg. two serving plates. Spoon the potato salad Return the pastry to the oven for a further Ingredients: Preheat the oven to 180C350F/Gas 4. Peel alongside and serve with a wedge of lemon. the quails’ eggs and add them to the pie five minutes, until golden-brown. Remove For the potato salad: filling with the prawns. Roll out the pastry the pastry from the oven and turn the oven 200g/7oz. small new potatoes Arran fish pie and cover the filling, sealing the edges of temperature down to 180C/365F/Gas 4. 50g/2oz. kale, very coarsely chopped the pastry to the dish with a little water. For the filling, beat the butter and sugar ¼ cucumber, cut in half lengthways, seeds Roll out the off-cuts of pastry and use together in a bowl until pale and fluffy. scooped out with a spoon, thickly sliced to decorate the top of the pie. Brush the Mix in the ground almonds, then crack 1-2 spring onions, trimmed and sliced pie with the beaten egg, scatter over the in the eggs one at a time, beating well between each addition until smooth and For the dressing: sesame seeds and bake for 25 minutes. creamy. Fold in the lemon zest and the 1 tbsp. white balsamic vinegar flour. Spread some of the raspberry jam 2 tbsp. cold-pressed rapeseed oil Sporran breeze generously across the base of the pastry, squeeze lemon juice leaving a 2.5cm/1in gap around the edge. salt and freshly ground black pepper Ingredients: 1 orange wedge Spread the filling mixture over the jam For the fish: 50ml single-malt whisky and sprinkle over the flaked almonds. 2 handfuls ‘medium’ oatmeal Ingredients: 2 tsp passion fruit syrup Bake the tart for 20 minutes, or until the salt and freshly ground black pepper For the flaky pastry: 25ml/1fl oz. fresh apple juice filling is set and golden-brown. Allow to 6 fish fillets, scales and central 250g/9oz strong white bread flour 25ml/1fl oz. cranberry juice cool in the tin before serving. To serve, line of bones removed pinch salt ¼ apple, to garnish cut the tart into 5cm/2in squares.

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By: David C. Weinczok

while marking the visit of the future James VII. It did a stint in the Tower of London before being returned to Edinburgh in 1829, and it has had a home in Edinburgh Castle almost constantly since. You’ll find it next to St Margaret’s Chapel, and it’s devilishly fun to stand behind it and imagine firing off a shot. There are three other items on the Edinburgh 101 list inside the castle as well: the Stone of Destiny, Crown Jewels, and wooden doors in the old

Craigmillar Castle. prison marked with graffiti by American, Edinburgh in 101 Objects French and Spanish prisoners of war. Craigmillar Castle yew trees There are actually quite a few castles and Visitors to Scotland’s ancient capital are being invited to discover the rich history of Edinburgh through its tower houses in Edinburgh, though of most treasured objects over a time span of 1,000 years. Seven themes provide a thread through the Edinburgh’s course Edinburgh Castle itself is by far the best known. A real contender, though, 101 journey through time: Building a City, Faith & Nation; City of Innovation; Arts & Performance; Everyday is Craigmillar Castle, now receiving a Life; On the Dark Side and Books, Words, Ideas. The city is a showcase of history and whether you are walking lot more attention thanks to being used its streets or discovering its treasures online Edinburgh 101 celebrates the story of Edinburgh and allows for filming in season three of the hit television series Outlander. Having been people to connect with Edinburgh’s history in a unique way as David C Weinczok explains. to just under 300 Scottish castles now, Craigmillar always ranks amongst the he story of Edinburgh is an epic still and measured empirically, he had no time Lord Gardenston, championed its healing must-sees I recommend to visitors. in the making. From its volcanic for it. We have Hume to thank in no small abilities. He commissioned a pillared temple origins, whose upheaval gave us part for the development of the scientific and statue of Hygieia, goddess of health and Castle Rock and Arthur’s Seat, to method, for humanism, Enlightenment and cleanliness – a much needed morale boost Tthe insatiable minds of the Enlightenment skepticism. On the other hand, he knew well in a city so dirty it was called ‘Auld Reekie’. 101 objects around and the frantic Fringe Festival, it’s nearly that the course human life is often decided St Bernard’s Well gets a mention in Mary Edinburgh have been impossible to do the capital justice. But by passions rather than reason. He might Shelley’s Frankenstein, listed amongst Edinburgh World Heritage, an independent have found a chuckle, then, in the fact that Edinburgh’s “…environs, the most selected to represent the charity that seeks to engage people with visitors and students in the city since the delightful in the world”. The stretch of the the city’s UNESCO World Heritage status, late 1990s have rubbed his toe for good luck! Water of Leith between Stockbridge and city’s sprawling history. has come as close as you can. Some view the rubbing of Hume’s toe Dean Village is one of the most beautiful yet 101 objects around Edinburgh have been as little more than a vacuous, vain photo least well-known sections of the city, just selected to represent the city’s sprawling opportunity for tourists with selfie sticks. 10 minutes’ walk from Princes Street yet One reason is that its atmosphere is history. From the 350 million-year-old rocks And sometimes it is. But the sculptor, blissfully secluded. It is also very historic, that of a ‘proper castle’, a hard-to-define of Hutton’s Section in the Salisbury Crags to Sandy Stoddart, seems on board, stating with mills being recorded here in the early concept but you know it when you’re Dolly the Sheep, the first cloned mammal, in a 2006 interview with The Scotsman 1100s and many of the colourful buildings in one. Craigmillar has countless nooks the diversity of the objects means there is an that “We are seeing the birth of an ancient have their origins in the 16thcentury. and crannies to explore, remarkably Easter egg hunt in the making for all interests. tradition…the more people are seen to do intact curtain walls, and significant and I have only been to around forty after living in that kind of thing, the more cultivated and Mons Meg bloody historical events to recount. Edinburgh for six years, so it’s been a real joy cultured they become.” While that may Perhaps my favourite feature, though, discovering extraordinary places and artifacts. be slightly optimistic, Edinburgh World are the yew trees flanking the entrance Heritage has clearly embraced the idea, to the main gate. No one knows for sure David Hume’s Toe encouraging myself and other history geeks how old they are, but they make entering to rub the toe on a recent walking tour. I the core of the castle feel like walking like to think it’s history in the making. into a Game of Thrones set. Mary, Queen of Scots spent time St Bernard’s Well unhappily at Craigmillar on several occasions. Most notoriously, during Mons Meg. a stay in 1566 the ‘Craigmillar Bond’ was hatched between several nobles to If ever curiosity killed the cat, that cat murder Mary’s husband, the oafish Lord was James II (r. 1437-1460). The Scottish Darnley. Life at Craigmillar was otherwise king had a fascination with artillery mostly peaceful, a place to escape the bordering on obsession, often watching mire and masses of the city. demonstrations of cannons in his free The full list of 101 objects can be found time. Such was his enthusiasm that when at the dedicated website www.edinburgh. Duke Philip of Burgundy was shopping org/101, and you can ‘visit’ the objects St Bernard’s Well. for a gift for the Scottish king in 1449, he on social media by using and searching settled on Mons Meg. #Edinburgh101. Travel and heritage writers, The New Town of Edinburgh is the Capable of firing a 250kg stone myself included, will be sharing lots of David Hume’s toe. Enlightenment in stone, its streets, gardens around 2 miles, the behemoth bombard photos, videos and information about them and symbolism all designed to encourage was more a status symbol than a in the coming months. There is so much Irony and self-deprecation is something rational individuals. While that may not practical weapon. Still, despite its bulk more to discover, from Britain’s largest fossil that Edinburgh does well, with sculptures have entirely worked out, it did become and the staggering logistics of hauling to a carving of an angel playing the bagpipes and statues seemingly a favourite means home to some of the finest minds in it anywhere, its shot battered the walls in St Giles Cathedral. With 101 quirky corners of mischief. A case in point: David science, literature and philosophy. Many of Norham, Dumbarton and Roxburgh of Edinburgh to explore, it’s a comprehensive Hume’s right big toe. of those minds looked back to ancient castles. Roxburgh is where James II tour of one of the world’s most storied cities. Living in a time when superstitions were Greece and Rome for inspiration, where St was killed when he was inspecting his David C Weinczok is a heritage professional, beginning to give way to science and reason, Bernard’s Well would have fit right in. artillery line and one of his own guns presenter and adoptive Scot based in Hume was an objectivist to the core – if it In the late 1780s three schoolboys found proceeded to explode. Edinburgh. Twitter: @TheCastleHunter couldn’t be observed in the physical world a mineral spring here, and a local eccentric, Mons Meg’s barrel burst in 1680

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2017 World Pipe Band Champions, Scotland’s Inveraray and District Pipe Band. All photos courtesy of Glasgow Life. photos courtesy of Glasgow All

nveraray and District Pipe Band have 219 Pipe Bands brought around been named the World Pipe Band 8000 pipers and drummers to Glasgow Champions for 2017. They fought off Green to compete at the World Pipe stiff competition from Field Marshal Band Championships. Approaching IMontgomery Pipe Band who finished 35,000 people attended the event over 2 second and St Laurence O’Toole from days. Bands from 15 nations including Dublin who were third. This was the USA, Canada, Northern Ireland, France, 70th anniversary of the World Pipe Band England, Australia, New Zealand, Belgium, Championships which Glasgow has hosted Austria, Netherlands, Republic of Ireland, for more than 30 years continuously. Switzerland, Denmark, Argentina and Scotland took part at Glasgow Green with Glasgow’s Lord Provost Eva Bolander, Scotland doing well across all grades. who was Chieftain of the World Pipe Band Championships 2017 said: “My heartiest Magnificent performances congratulations to everyone who competed The first ever World Pipe Band at the World Pipe Band Championships. As Championships were held at Murrayfield a former pipe-band member I know exactly in Edinburgh in 1947. The event was first how much work goes into producing such held in Glasgow in 1948 and has been magnificent performances. Next year will staged in the city continuously since 1986. mark 70 years since the Worlds were first held in Glasgow and we are already looking forward to another fantastic occasion.” As well as the best pipe bands in the Ian Embelton, Chief Executive of the Royal world, the event also hosts Highland Scottish Pipe Band Association said: “We have games, Highland dancing and a great enjoyed two outstanding days of musical showcase of Scottish food and drink. This performances of extraordinary quality. It’s year, the Worlds, as they are affectionately been a competition full of drama, excitement known, are part of the celebrations for and above all some brilliant playing from the Year of History, Heritage and Archaeology. best bands in the world who continue to set The World Pipe Band Championships are new standards. It has been an unforgettable being supported by EventScotland, part of occasion for everyone who joined us. VisitScotland’s Events Directorate.

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THE RESULTS OF THE 2017 WORLD PIPE CHAMPIONSHIPS There’s something about Mary Grade 1 Grade 4A still bears a stain believed to be 1 Inveraray and District 1 3rd Battalion The Rizzio’s blood on the floor. Following 2 Field Marshal Montgomery Royal Regiment of Scotland the murder of Rizzio, Mary fled to 3 St Laurence O’Toole 2 Tullylagan Craigmillar Castle. It was in the castle 4 Scottish Power 3 McNeilstown 5 Simon Fraser University where the plot was hatched to murder 4 Denny and Dunipace Mary’s husband, Lord Darnley. 6 Shotts and Dykehead Caledonia Gleneagles In June 1566, in a tiny room in Drumming: Inveraray and District 5 Cullybackey Edinburgh Castle, Mary gave birth Grade 2 6 Dunbar RBL Drumming: Tullylagan to her son who would go on to 1 The Glasgow Skye Association become James VI of Scotland and 2 Lomond and Clyde Grade 4B I of England. The nearby National 3 St Thomas Alumni 1 College of Piping Museum of Scotland includes 4 City of Dunedin Summerside over 200 objects connected to 5 MacKenzie Caledonian 2 Kildoag 6 Manorcunningham-Eire 3 Lisnamulligan Mary Queen of Scots including the Drumming: Lomond and Clyde 4 Culter and District Penicuik Jewels. The gold necklace, 5 Cullen-Eire locket and pendant, which is believed Grade 3A 6 Davison Mains to contain miniature portraits of 1 Royal Burgh of Stirling and District Mary and her son, were recently 2 New Ross and District Drumming: Bucksburn listed by VisitScotland among 25 3 Marlacoo and District and District Novice objects that shaped Scottish history. 4 Coalburn I.O.R Follow in the footsteps of the famous Scottish queen at Linlithgow Novice A It was as part of an official tour in 5 St Joseph’s-Eire Palace during the Year of History, Heritage and Archaeology 2017. 6 Deeside Caledonia 1 Ross and Cromarty 1566 that Mary enjoyed a brief stay in P&D School Photo: VisitScotland. Drumming: Royal Scottish Borders’ town of Jedburgh. 2 Dollar Academy Burgh of Stirling It was whilst she was here she visited 3 Oban High School t has the makings of any for the Queen through some of her her secret lover Lord Bothwell in Grade 3B 4 George Watson’s 1 Royal Burgh of Annan College gripping thriller, a story filled most turbulent years. You can get Hermitage Castle. The town still th 2 Bothwell Castle 5 George Herriot’s with betrayal, revenge, love a feel for Royal life in 16 century celebrates its Royal connections School 3 Quinn Memorial and even murder, but far from Scotland with a visit to the Royal through the Mary Queen of Scots 6 Peoples Ford Boghall 4 The Highlanders(4 Scots) Ia work of fiction, these are the Apartment which bears the style Visitor Centre. Situated within a 16th and Bathgate 5 Major Sinclair Memorial Drumming: George dramatic events surrounding the and décor of life in that era. century towerhouse, the attraction 6 Kevin R. Blandford Memorial Watson’s College reign of Mary Queen of Scots. For her own safety following a explores the life of the tragic queen Drumming: Royal Burgh of Annan Novice B The turbulent life of the young campaign by Henry VIII to force a through paintings, textiles and monarch, which includes her forced marriage between Mary and Prince objects associated with her. Juvenile 1 Lochalsh Junior abdication of the throne exactly Edward, the young Queen spent 1 Dollar Academy 2 Oban High School Abdicate or die 2 George Watson’s College 3 Bucksburn and 450 years ago (24 July 1567), has time in Dunkeld in 1544 and later, 3 George Heriot’s School District Novice captured the imagination of visitors, Inchmahome Priory in late 1547. Just three months after the death of 4 West Lothian Schools 4 MacKenzie historians and even TV producers, Often used as a political pawn, Lord Darnley, who was believed to 5 Peoples Ford Boghall Caledonian Juvenile with the successful Netflix series Mary was just 5 years old when King have been smothered in February 5 North Lanarkshire and Bathgate Reign inspired by the life and times Henry II of France proposed to unite 1567, Mary married Lord Bothwell 6 Robert Malcolm Memorial Schools of the famous queen. Scotland and France through the at the Palace of Holyroodhouse. The Drumming: George 6 Sgoil Lionacleit Heriot’s School Drumming: Bucksburn. 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North American Edition • September 2017 • Page 27 THE SCOTTISH BANNER By: Nick Drainey Scottish mother, adventurer Myrtle Simpson and polar veteran Myrtle Simpson is a woman who carved her own path (often out of ice) and is known as the “Mother of Scottish skiing”. Her passion for her family, adventure, climbing and skiing have seen her become a true Scottish trailblazer and this year was awarded the Polar Medal for outstanding achievement and service to the United Kingdom in the field of polar research as ‘Explorer of Arctic regions; sea canoer, climber and writer’. Myrtle was the first woman to ski across Greenland, raised her kids in the snow and still skis today as Nick Drainey explains.

the medal 50 years ago for his work as a Hugh had six months of research to do on just months old.” They took a teacher from scientist in the Antarctic. Svalbard, an archipelago in the Arctic Ocean. Scotland with them who looked after the Speaking from her home near Aviemore Myrtle says: “I realised I was pregnant but children while they were away. she says: “Of course you can take kids too selfish to stay behind so I went too. We “It was frightful to begin with; the ice but you have to know how to do it. I got got a lot press at the time for taking the baby, was churned up and we were going about knocked a lot about it – people said it Robin, who was six weeks or so.” three miles a day. Then things got better was bad to take children to such an awful The presence of women caused a stir but the radio went on fire. We argued for place and I was a bad mother. But no-one even on the remote islands, home to polar two days and three nights, I wanted to says that now. There has been a change in bears. “A girlfriend of mine came out to push on – I said if we can’t find it we’ll just people’s thinking, they are asking how I took see us and she and I went off kayaking. We push on to Russia. In the end we chucked the kids, not how awful it was to take them.” were camping on a magical beach, just the it in and turned round and we went and Myrtle was born in Aldershot when her two of us and the baby. when suddenly a picked up the kids.” Edinburgh-born father was stationed on the boat appeared. A whole lot of people got town’s Army base. She estimates she went off and a furious guy said: ‘Who are you, Broke the glass ceiling to 19 schools as the family moved around what are you doing. This is my area.’ He It is with her children she has most enjoyed with the military but they moved back to was from Cambridge and had just been being the outdoors. She says: “The happiest I Edinburgh when she was a teenager. She telling his party how dangerous it was to have ever been in my life is in a little tent with says: “I stuck out like a sore thumb because land and they must keep close to him, he the four kids. I don’t care about the rain – of Arctic adventurer Myrtle Simpson. I hadn’t had a normal education so I used was the intrepid guy - then they find two course I love my electric blanket and my Aga to go and walk by myself in the Pentlands.” young women and a baby camping.” but it is great to know you can do without She became part of the Edinburgh In 1965 Myrtle became the first them. When you hear people wailing now s a young mother of four in the University climbing club and met Hugh woman to ski across Greenland with about how bad everything is, I would say 1960s Myrtle Simpson would have when she was qualifying as a radiographer. three others as part of an unsupported ‘take your family and go camping’.” Myrtle been expected to stay at home to Her first job was in Fort William at the age expedition. But it was on another trip says she was shocked to be awarded the raise her family. But the pioneer of of 21 and her love of climbing grew: “I was to the world’s largest island she enjoyed Polar Medal – first given in 1904 to Captain AArctic adventure took her babes in arms with accepted by the climbers and there weren’t seeing her children thrive. She says: Scott’s first expedition to Antarctica. her to the frozen wastes of the North, home many girls climbing in those days.” “Our daughter (Rona) was three and “I was very surprised because we haven’t to polar bears and sub-zero temperatures. She organised the Edinburgh Andean there was a little Greenland girl of three done anything big for ages, in all the Expedition in 1958 and set off by boat and these two spent every day of the congratulations cards the first thing said Arctic adventure to Lima with fellow climber Bill Wallace, summer playing together, making dollies was why get it now. Maybe it is something The 87-year-old received criticism for her meeting up in Peru with Hugh who was and stuff. They didn’t speak a word of to do with women being cool (at the lifestyle in the 1960s but nowadays she says returning from the Antarctic. When there each other’s language and they didn’t at moment) – they broke the glass ceiling but attitudes are beginning to change. She, the trio made the first British ascent of the the end either. We thought our kids had there are still lots of things (to do).” however, is adamant she will not change 22,000ft Huascaran, the second-highest much better time coming with us rather Now, she is happy to continue a life- her active lifestyle and still advocates mountain in the Americas. than us leaving them behind.” long love of skiing. A past president of the skiing, despite being in her ninth decade. In 1969, with Hugh and fellow Scottish Ski Club – a position her daughter Earlier this year she was awarded the Home to polar bears expeditioner Roger Tuft, she was forced Rona currently holds - she still skis in the prestigious Polar Medal for her exploits Myrtle says: “It caused great interest in the to turn back from an attempt to reach Cairngorms, where she helped establish in the Arctic, which included skiing press in Peru because there were two guys the North Pole. the ski resort in the 1950s and 60s. She across Greenland and making an attempt and me and I would say that above 20,000ft “We took the kids as far as we could says: “It is the very sport for the elderly – at reaching the North Pole. She was it doesn’t matter. Anyway, I came back and which was the most northerly school in the lift takes you up and all you have to do following her husband Hugh who received married Hugh.” Just after they were married Canada and Rory, our youngest child was is ski down. You have to keep active.” SEASIDE HIGHLAND GAMES The PremierOctober Scottish 14 & Festival 15, 2017 on the Pacific Coast Ventura County Fairgrounds • Ventura, CA October 14 & 15, 2017 Traditional & Rock Bands on Four Stages

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