Support the channel with Patreon www.patreon.com/scotlandhistorytours Bruce visits a highland games in Australia kzbin.info/www/bejne/mHiqd6CHp9B5gZo Tour Scotland with Bruce www.scotlandhistorytours.co.uk/tours/
@mojorocketman2 ай бұрын
Is it true the Scottish used rocks for training because the English forbid them from using weapons? I know when the Emperor of China banned weapons in fear of an uprising, they learned to use farm tools as weapons.
@Xacute002 ай бұрын
I was there it was sooooo cool to see you there, thank you for coming here to Canada to meet the diaspora!
@GEBNPАй бұрын
Johnny Cash was indeed of English and Scottish descent. :)
@squigleesАй бұрын
WHERE in Ontario is this??!!!??? There are games all across the Province which is the size of 10 or more Scotlands...
@Xacute00Ай бұрын
@@squiglees Its east of Toronto in Cobourg, also many around Toronto and Ottawa, Glengarry Highland Games is very popular and has military regiments show up as they are near a base.
@ScotlandHistoryTours2 ай бұрын
I'm in Guelph now. I did a show in Fergus last night
@thehellyousay2 ай бұрын
my grandparents lived in embro. most of my childhood and teen years were spent living in oxford county. my mom was an armstrong, my dad a bailey. so friggin' scots, i bleed plaid. enjoy the games.
@mikevantrigt43172 ай бұрын
You must come back sometime for the festival in Fergus. I live in Guelph and go every year. I've just started into the heavies and we camp for the weekend, it is great. If you enjoyed Port Hope, you certainly would not be disappointed in Fergus.
@christinec6422 ай бұрын
The Embro Highland Games were today. Held on Canada Day every year. Pipe band competition, highland dancing competition, heavy events, tug o' war, and whiskey tasting. Love to have you visit next time.
@reneeangele47662 ай бұрын
I grew up in that area. My parents loved the Scottish games. We are not Scottish, but my mom liked the kilts so she could check out the men's legs, lol
@RBarnett4212 ай бұрын
Aue lad!!!! Fergus us a great games!!! If you're still in Canada August 2nd 3rd. Glen Garry highland games in Mayville. I will see you there and buy you a pint!!!!
@ceilidhmckay90662 ай бұрын
Another Canadian fact of interest. The famous Cowichan First Nations sweater Pattern of Vancouver Island has it's roots in Scotland. In 1885 Jemina Colvin, a settler from Shetland Island, homesteaded near Duncan BC and shared her fair isle knitting pattern with local indigenous women and they adapted the pattern into their own beautiful and distinctive knitting style. 😊
@ScotlandHistoryTours2 ай бұрын
THAT is interesting
@g-urts55182 ай бұрын
My sister lived in Lake Cowichan for years. Absolutely gorgeous out there
@dmacpher2 ай бұрын
Born and raised in Duncan and I had no idea! Neat
@ceilidhmckay9066Ай бұрын
@@dmacpher Love Duncan and looking forward to the summer music fest! Bruce is in Victoria now and I hope he manages a visit "up island" at some point!
@ceilidhmckay9066Ай бұрын
@@dmacpher I just looked up info on Jeremina Covin on Familysearch. She was born Jeremina Robertson in 1859 at Tingwall Whiteness and Weisdale. Her husband Robert Mouat Colvin was also born on Shetland. They lived in Cowichan Station, Duncan and had 6 children. Jeremina died in 1937, age 78 and is buried, along with her husband and some of her children, at St.Peters Anglican cemetery in Duncan ( Quamichan)
@bradlilly86032 ай бұрын
The Scotts gave us everything except pants Bruce, except pants
@GoBlueGirl782 ай бұрын
😂😂
@dadeffoneАй бұрын
Funnily enough, they gave us Jeans
@Angela-gn1xqАй бұрын
Who needs pants?
@tracymuckle8512Ай бұрын
I'm thankful, nothing is sexier than a man in his kilt! 😍
@MatthewgrandyАй бұрын
How else are you gonna keep the flies off your dinner?
@TheSlider5352 ай бұрын
Bruce, I'm a Morrison 77yo , My Dad was Gaelic speaking Scots from The Isle of Harris, I'm glad your enjoying my Country !!
@ScotlandHistoryTours2 ай бұрын
It's been great fun
@nakmuay77052 ай бұрын
Hey, I'm a Cuthbertson from Canada. I was always told we were too small to have our own clan, so we were part of the Morrisons from the Hebrides. Found out they go back to a Norse sea king named Olaf the black and going back further to Norway, all the way back to Ragnar Lothbrok!
@kimhackett9675Ай бұрын
Oh hey there! My dad was a Morrison who was able to trace his family back to the Isle of Lewis - distant, distant relations, perhaps!
@graywolf42082 ай бұрын
A scotsman is a scotsman regardless of the color of their skin. And Bruce is as Scottish as they come. Sláinte Bruce! 🥃
@mattmiller50142 ай бұрын
Bullsh#t
@richardrybicki7492 ай бұрын
Have a dear friend who is Scottish ,pure Cherokee .
@haraldtheyounger55042 ай бұрын
And here's me thinking he's just got a good tan, from all those trips abroad. I'm from Norwegian/Irish heritage, 100% not British, pure Scottish. No ginger hair, strangely enough, just down there.
@lindamazur61242 ай бұрын
😅 TMI @@haraldtheyounger5504
@stevenb4272 ай бұрын
Bruce is the definition of SCOTTISHNESS!! This man is a legend for us Jocks. 🙌 🏴
@ceilidh5242 ай бұрын
Hey Bruce, here in Antigonish, known as the “Highland Heart of Nova Scotia”, we have the 159th running of the Antigonish Highland games, which is the longest running Highland Games in North America, from July 7-14. Céad míle fáilte (One hundred thousand welcomes)!
@LittleWoba2 ай бұрын
Actually, ours on Van Isle has been running for 161 years 🍁
@iamjakt2 ай бұрын
@@LittleWoba Antigonish, from their highland games site : "the oldest continuous Highland Games in the world outside of Scotland, running since 1863"
@cowtipnupchuckr2 ай бұрын
"Continuous" is probably the key thing here.
@gravyvcolouredhair17312 ай бұрын
I'm from Cape Breton, I've never heard anyone call Antigonish the "Highland Heart of Nova Scotia" especially since you have no highlands at all...
@haleyd29512 ай бұрын
@gravyvcolouredhair1731 I agree, I'm Nova Scotian and I've never heard of Antigonish as the NS highlands. Cape Breton is considered to be Nova Scotia's equivalent to the Scottish Highlands because it actually has highlands that are also from the exact same formation as the Scottish highlands and the Appalachian mountains.
@Martin.Wilson2 ай бұрын
I'm 70 now, but was a piper in Ontario starting in the '60's. We played at all the games....Embro, Dutton, Fergus, Brantford, Maxville and many others as well. We'd practice all winter long and the games were a weekly event every summer. Our band actually had the privilege to compete in Scotland in '69 and '72. So many memories.
@ScotlandHistoryTours2 ай бұрын
Brilliant
@Hrossey2 ай бұрын
I hope yous got pumped when yous competed. Like absolutely embarrassed levels of pumped ❤🤭 Cannae be Scottish and cheer on foreigners lol x
@waywardmindАй бұрын
Went to high school 40 minutes from Maxville. The games were always a yearly tradition for people like 150 km around.
@rkgrant2 ай бұрын
Pipes and Drums are a BIG part of canadian military traditions...now and in every conflict we're been involved in...WWII, WWI, Afganisthan, the Boer war, the seven years war...
@queenally28732 ай бұрын
As an American living in Nova Scotia, I LOVE seeing a parade with all the Pipe and Drum bands. We were all about marching bands where I came from, and while I enjoy them, I prefer the bagpipes.
@paulholmes46972 ай бұрын
Here's a Scot in Canada you might want to cover: Alexander MacKenzie. He was an explorer and travelled from Montreal to the coast of BC, the first European to do so. Along the way he followed a river to the artic ocean which he named the river of despair, since renamed the MacKenzie river. He carved his name & date into a rock face, still visible, on the Pacific coast a mere few weeks separated him & Captain George Vancouver's exploration of the same coast. The Americans Clark & Lewis read his memoirs to prepare for their journey 12 years later. There are schools, roads and many other things named for him in this country. A new river class destroyer will be named HMCS MacKenzie. He ended his days in Scotland. (Another amazing scot was John rae who discovered the fate of the Franklin expedition by hiking there solo. He was blackballed by Lady Franklin because he reported cannibalism).
@ScotlandHistoryTours2 ай бұрын
I know, I thought about him, but didn't have a canoe
@kholden26782 ай бұрын
@@ScotlandHistoryTours Both Alexander MacKenzie and John Rae have stories that connect to the family of Cuthbert Grant Sr. whose children founded the Metis Nation. Cuthbert Grant Jr. and Queen Victoria were 8th great grandchildren of King James V. Next time you're in Hamilton Ontario let me know and I'll give you a private tour of some sites connected to Scottish history including John Rae, and reveal my hidden famliy connection to them.
@wtspman2 ай бұрын
On the theme of Scottish engineers and scientists, there’s also Sandford Fleming, easily worth a video
@WilliamHunter2 ай бұрын
Here's an interesting Scot for Pacific Northwest - Archibald McDonald (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archibald_McDonald) and his son Ranald who explored south Vancouver Island then went to Japan (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranald_MacDonald)
A'reyt Bruce. The family I stayed with in Ontario were Scottish by ancestry. The grandad, who was Scottish, quite took to me as I had not heard all his stories and he had a new audience, though I also think my "having time of day for folk" Yorkshire attitude helped us get on. It was said I had been adopted. In Vancouver I thought I was getting on famously with celtic looking redhead French speaking lass, but then I realised that no matter the background or the language we were speaking, she was just being a friendly Canadian.
@ScotlandHistoryTours2 ай бұрын
😂😂
@DuncanMcintyre-jk3qb2 ай бұрын
We’re aw jock tamsons bairns -cut us we bleed red ❤
@salannegrant69672 ай бұрын
💯!!
@julianndavis94152 ай бұрын
This is off to a good start The mum and her son dashing across the screen didn’t distract me until he took a nose dive. Ok, back to the show!
@ScotlandHistoryTours2 ай бұрын
Entertainment all the way
@la_old_salt22412 ай бұрын
@@ScotlandHistoryTours Indeed!
@Aaron-df6jcАй бұрын
A Scot is Scot!!! They are a tough people !! Love the scots - everywhere!!!!!♥️🇨🇦🐈⬛🇫🇮Welcome to Canada.♥️♥️♥️♥️
@jameshorne93512 ай бұрын
Bruce in a kilt, you should do it a lil more often, looking good!! 💙🏴
@Beanboiwolf2 ай бұрын
Don't forget the modern take on a traditional linen shirt looks great on him!
@rksnj67972 ай бұрын
Agreed! Bruce looks great in his kilt!
@kurtmooreca2 ай бұрын
Thanks for covering a little bit of my Country paying homage to yours. Scotland heritage and culture is deeply engrained in the Canadian identity...and our Highland Games events are always a blast, great way to experience a taste of the old Country.
@BabyFace786yegАй бұрын
Great production and sound quality
@dougdavidson1752 ай бұрын
Expat Canuck living in Perthshire! Thanks for posting. Take care & stay safe.
@ScotlandHistoryTours2 ай бұрын
See you when I'm back
@KellyAnn19972 ай бұрын
It’s amazing how many Highland Games are still held all over…including here in the US (Michigan too where I’m from). In fact, a neighbor flies the Scots flag. They’re everywhere! 😂 Love the kilt Bruce!
@BeeuTforAshes2 ай бұрын
Are you talking about the Alma games? It's been years since I've been to it. I'm in Lansing. A little bit Scotish too.
@canadianbacon9819Ай бұрын
Scottish Canadian and proud! Great video man hope you enjoyed the trip to our country. It could be in a better State and it will be in the future 🙏🏻
@ScotlandHistoryToursАй бұрын
I'm still here and loving it
@canadianbacon9819Ай бұрын
@@ScotlandHistoryTours That is great to hear man, I also live in Ontario, there is nothing short of things to do and things to see. Enjoy the rest of your time in our fine country brother!
@cynthiagordon6087Ай бұрын
I have found memories of going to the highland games in Barrie, ON as a child. It was always a great time. My great grandparents were from Aberdeen.
@christophersilsby78292 ай бұрын
My aunts have a friend who they meet in Toronto. She is from Nova Scotia. She is a Bagpiper with the complete official Scotish outfit for a Bagpiper.
@LiqdPT2 ай бұрын
My university has a pipe band that has won multiple (when I was going there it was 5, but it's more now) world championships. AFAIK, it was the first band outside the UK to win multiple (or back to back). That school? Simon Fraser University just outside Vancouver, BC, Canada.
@frankkelly22452 ай бұрын
Bruce posts I must watch.
@GuruishMike2 ай бұрын
I grew up going to the Highland Games in New Glasgow and Antigonish.
@Hogey501Ай бұрын
Hi Bruce, I'm an English born grandson of a Scot who now lives in Canada. I watch your video's all the time, and Lo and behold up pops my daughter and son-in laws band on the screen!. Thanks for that, Paul in Ontario, Canada. (The Celtic band in the tent).
@ScotlandHistoryToursАй бұрын
Brilliant
@mtlnascarfan2 ай бұрын
So very proud of my Irish/Scottish roots (Maxwell/Mundy) based here in Montreal. Can't help but smile with a tear in my eye when I hear the sound of the pipes.
@petebaldry50332 ай бұрын
It was great to see you in person last night in Fergus!! Keep the videos coming; it’s a weekly ritual to watch you Saturday mornings with my tea!! Enjoy the rest of your time here!!
@Exotic30002 ай бұрын
Thanks for posting. I was born in Fergus! ❤
@reneedevry43612 ай бұрын
This was a great video. Grandfather was a Cameron from Findhorn. We live in Ottawa so go to the Glengarry Highland Games in early August about once every 4 or 5 years. Happens on the same weekend as our favorite Pagan Festival😆 Not much for beer but munching shortbread while listening to pipes is a must. Hope you are enjoying your stay in Canada👍
@susanb48162 ай бұрын
I live in ottawa. One of those bands practices in the park beside my house every saturday for 4-6 hours. I absolutely love it
@THISISBEAR2 ай бұрын
Welcome to Canada from a Scottish descendant...my parents....I am the only one born in this country. I've never been to the games but would love to see the caber toss! At any rate, I hope you enjoy your time here and of course the games. Safe travels.
@brisetta2 ай бұрын
This is an incredible video! Welcome to my country, we welcome you with open arms! Happy Canada Day from Toronto! My moms family came to Canada from Scotland in the early 1900s, around 1905, and its just lovely to hear your accent reminds me of my family who still live there to this day!
@cynthiaeaton23422 ай бұрын
Hello Bruce, I’m one of your loyal Patreon members and just wanted to say I’m excited to see you in Victoria BC Canada on July 13th. !!
@ScotlandHistoryTours2 ай бұрын
Send me a message on the Patreon app
@colinthompson31112 ай бұрын
Thank you, Bruce, for this video and visiting us in Canada.
@ScotlandHistoryTours2 ай бұрын
My pleasure!
@andersthorson56282 ай бұрын
Grateful to be part of the Highland games in the US my entire life (as a piper) and to have passed it down to my children and grandchildren.
@HistoryHereAtHome2 ай бұрын
A pleasure to meet and talk to you Bruce and Zak!! Glad to see myself at 4:29 🇨🇦🏴
@rafaelbarreto2658Ай бұрын
Hey where did this happened and when will the next event be?
@4gunslinger2 ай бұрын
I've gone to the Highland games in my home state here in the U.S. every year since i was a kid. It's always a good time and a great group of people. I've always wondered what the native Scots make of all this 😅
@brookechang4942Ай бұрын
I'm not Scottish myself, but I know a lot of the original European immigrants to Canada were from Scotland. Glad to see we made a good impression!
@wesmartin12102 ай бұрын
I have always loved the sound of the pipes and all that goes with the highland Games!
@hollyjensen23712 ай бұрын
when you hear them do you get a tightness in your chest and are just drawn to go to them? Maybe its the nova scotian part of me, (I don't even think i have scottish ancestry) but i feel like a moth to a flame when I hear the pipes. past lives maybe.
@wesmartin12102 ай бұрын
@@hollyjensen2371 Yes, I do! I get motivated hearing them. Does it feel like they stir the soul? They do for me.
@hollyjensen23712 ай бұрын
@@wesmartin1210 they do stir something in the soul, at times I almost tear up (I know that sounds silly) but there it is.
@wesmartin12102 ай бұрын
@@hollyjensen2371 It does not sound silly at all because I almost tear up as well. You are in good company.
@gregsmith98622 ай бұрын
A Highland Games is held in Glasgow Kentucky annually. It’s really good and if you’re in the area you should check it out. There’s a lot of Scots-Irish here as they originally settled the area. note, my Duncan, Alexander, Brockett, ancestors fought in both the French & Indian and the Revolutionary wars. As best I can find, most of them came over in the early 1700’s to 1750’s, and as they were Presbyterian I think they were of the Covenanter group that migrated through northern Ireland, but I’ve got more research to do on this. Greetings from Louisville Ky
@hollyjensen23712 ай бұрын
so nice. can't wait for the NH highland games this fall in New Hampshire. already got tickets. three days worth of good times
@wrmp2 ай бұрын
Truly enjoyed the interview and the great job done by Bruce as Honorary Chieftain who provided really shining moments during a great festival day at Northumberland.
@df6990Ай бұрын
This is the 1st video I've seen and it was nice that it was about the Canadian Highland Games (in Ontario). I enjoyed your interview with William (Bill) Petrie (of CASSOC) and my clan society (Clan Fergusson) is a member of CASSOC). As others have suggested, I hope you will attend either Glengarry or Fergus as they are the 2 largest in Ontario and you will most definitely see tug of war. In fact, Glengarry will have the members of the RCMP there and their horses as part of the opening ceremonies.
@glenfletcher57462 ай бұрын
Great talking with you and your son that day!! Didn't know the camera was on either. Glad to have you at the games in proper Scottish/Canadian style. Great video!
@matthewardill42972 ай бұрын
My friend's uncle and cousin are pipers at those games. Glad you visited and welcome to Canada!
@rtcameron12 ай бұрын
My hometown, Antigonish, Nova Scotia has the longest continuous Highland Games outside of Scotland!
@fartsinthewind2 ай бұрын
In the legendary words of the late John Mann, “there’s none more Scots than the Scots abroad.” 😂 I’ve been to games that have had a tug o’war here in Ontario before. I think each games is a little bit different. Not by much, but little things. Specific traditions, degree of formality, etc What I tend to enjoy most is when each individual band practices in random locations through the day. It’s nice to be walking around and come across a circle of musicians playing together, and sometime a dancer will join and preform some highland dancing in the round. Good times always.
@cjgia4898Ай бұрын
Bruce, you’re the man! Love your videos! 😊✌🏻❤🙏🏼
@ScotlandHistoryToursАй бұрын
😘
@lelleithmurray2352 ай бұрын
Lovely video Bruce. Glad you had a good time!😊
@anneedge36272 ай бұрын
As a Canadian, a descendant of the McLean and Macdonald clans, I love this Scottish man. He is clever, and talented, and makes me laugh so much when I watch his videos. He really knows his history. Anyone who has the nerve to say that he isn’t Scottish because of his African blood just makes me snort, it is so ridiculous.
@ScotlandHistoryToursАй бұрын
Ah thanks
@brandyjean7015Ай бұрын
@@ScotlandHistoryTours I'm an American with an Armstrong greatgrams...and a broadsword. I'll defend that you are a Scot: my witty, humorous Bruce!
@SheldonT.2 ай бұрын
There's none more Scot than the Scots abroad 🎶
@Hsalf9042 ай бұрын
Would’ve been cool to go to Antigonish Highland Games in Nova Scotia - oldest outside of Scotland! They’re happening in mid July
@jeremychambers7861Ай бұрын
Had the pleasure to meet you on the College street in Toronto! Totally awesome, and please keep up the great work!
@ScotlandHistoryToursАй бұрын
Aye, that was our first day in town
@Coddiwompling2 ай бұрын
Thanks for sharing new videos as you travel Canada! As always, I appreciate your content.
@CS584202 ай бұрын
So glad Bruce is seeing all the places in Canada I and others suggested. Hope the entire journey is nothing but excellent
@ScotlandHistoryTours2 ай бұрын
What could possibly go wrong?
@CS584202 ай бұрын
@@ScotlandHistoryTours Well you just never know I guess. Are you still going to Perth Ontario? I'm hoping to see you live in Calgary but forgot the date you were planning to be there
@kylebrooks338Ай бұрын
We just had our Highland Games this passed weekend. Made sure to wear my clan pin, ended up running into fellow Frasers, it was a fun time
@sadie29142 ай бұрын
Thank you for the stories of the highland games back home for you! I hope one day i can go to scotland and see it in peraon🙏🖤
@ProfMichaelMacD2 ай бұрын
You're awesome! As a Cape Bretoner, I welcome you to Canada 🇨🇦 🏴 By the way, a good friend of mine is from Ghana, and joined a Canadian Armed Forces Reserve unit called the Cape Breton Highlanders! He rocked the kilt, too!
@timothyrobson33252 ай бұрын
Fun meeting you and Zak in Fergus. Entertaining stand up show. Class act
@ScotlandHistoryTours2 ай бұрын
Thank you muchly
@SylviusTheMad2 ай бұрын
There have been Highland Games held in Victoria, on Vancouver Island, every year since 1864. It was there I had the best haggis I've ever tasted (in classic west coast style, the haggis was cooked in a wok).
@rkgrant2 ай бұрын
I was at your Montreal show and have been looking forward to videos from your Canada tour. Thanks for this cousin. - Randall Kenneth Grant - Montreal, Qc
@ScotlandHistoryTours2 ай бұрын
Thanks for coming. There are another five Canada videos up so far
@PFWoody4882 ай бұрын
Ya had me at "Furious Fengerin".
@ScotlandHistoryTours2 ай бұрын
😂
@ChristinaMacDonald7772 ай бұрын
My grandfather Duncan MacDonald💓(Rest in Peace🕊🍃✨️✝️✨️), was born and raised Nova Scotia, Canada. He taught us very well to know, our blood is from the Highlands!💪🏞💯. To the Highlands we go! Love the Highland games. Used to go every year with my dad💓(Rest in Peace🕊🍃✨️✝️✨️). They're held nearby in Vista, Ca. Thank you for this great video! Love this! God bless.
@GamelanSinarSuryaАй бұрын
Your enthusiasm and energy are fantastic!
@ScotlandHistoryToursАй бұрын
You are so kind
@dukemurphy509Ай бұрын
Come to Antigonish this weekend, oldest games outside of Scotland
@ScotlandHistoryToursАй бұрын
Sorry, I'll be in BC
@brianscott33922 ай бұрын
Quite enjoyed your coverage of the Scottish Highland Games! Thank you Bruce. 🙂👍🇨🇦
@rockbutcher2 ай бұрын
I'm Canadian and my Clan Farquharson coat of arms hangs in the front entrance to my house. I even have the kilt, in the Officer's pattern.
@confederatecwby692 ай бұрын
Johnny Cash born in Kingsland, Arkansas, on February 26, 1932, to Carrie Cloveree (née Rivers) and Ray Cash. He had three older siblings, Roy, Margaret Louise, and Jack, and three younger siblings, Reba, Joanne, and Tommy (who also became a successful country artist). He was primarily of English and Scottish descent.
@MoosefromCanada2 ай бұрын
And Johnny‘S first wife was black . Isn’t that interesting mr. Confederate? 🤣🤣🫡‼️🇨🇦 my family came North in 1860 . Irish, Scottish and Nigerian Slave
@moniquetroth2 ай бұрын
@@MoosefromCanada Except the closest black relative she had was "one of her four maternal great-great-great-grandmothers was Sally Shields, a woman of mixed-race who was born into slavery in Alabama." (Wikipedia) Vivian was primarily Sicilian on her father's side & German/Irish on her mother's.
@kh10462 ай бұрын
Not about Canada tho. Let's work on that.
@Mike-eo5jk2 ай бұрын
Greetings from Michigan, USA, Bruce, I was competing at the highland games in Kingsville, Ontario on June 22nd and had tickets to your show in Seaform. Unfortunately, I miscalculated the distance and realized it was a 3-hour drive and wouldn't make it to the show on time. I'm sure it was great and I hope to see you another time!
@ScotlandHistoryTours2 ай бұрын
Ah no, sorry
@M2lsBc2 ай бұрын
It was fun to see you explore the Highland Games in Port hope! That is where I live. Just walking distance from the fairgrounds where it was held. Unfortunately I missed the event because I’m in Nova Scotia visiting my 2 sons who are renovating a house for me 😊
@martinwoodworkingАй бұрын
My home town just hosted a Highland Games as well as a highland dancing contest with a judge from Scotland.
@trevorlambert4226Ай бұрын
I live in Ontario, and I've been to a Highland Games in Scotland (Pitlochry), but never here. Funny to hear you say you'd never see a kilt back home. I remember seeing them at the one we attended in 2007.
@trishwinstead282 ай бұрын
Thanks for taking me along with you!
@ScotlandHistoryTours2 ай бұрын
Any time!
@debbiegilmour61712 ай бұрын
We have showies in Moray. Only place I've ever heard the term come to think of it.
@keithhawthorne5630Ай бұрын
The McCready's of Ireland immigrated from Scotland a 1000 years ago and never lost their Scottish heritage. You'll find plenty of Scotts-Irish in the US and Canada, proudly wearing their tartan. It does my heart good that you like us Canadians. We have a very strong sense of self.
@planesandbikes7353Ай бұрын
This is great. Thanks for coming and documenting a highland games here in Canada! I grew up attending the highland games around my family's region in Embro Ontario. great memories
@vincentstuart95622 ай бұрын
Bruce sounds like he'd be a fun person to spend a day with just by the energy he gives off
@pauldevlin98352 ай бұрын
It was wonderful to meet you on the Friday night in Port Hope. Safe travels
@missbrenda412 ай бұрын
If you want a fun time next year, try and make her way west to Penticton BC and out wee Highlands Games Day. The pride runs deep here!
@gingerpie19812 ай бұрын
Please come back in August sometime for Fergus , the fergus Scottish festival is fantastic.. I've been attending my entire life, first as a dancer and then to watch my brother in law pipe and now to visit my Outlander fan club friends.. and enjoy the bands.. we would love to show you a good time there !!.. and this year.. there are several stars of outlander , Duncan McTavish and Maria Doyle Kennedy.. my son and I even got to meet Graham McTavish a few years ago
@brians_casual_shenanigans2 ай бұрын
Attended my first Aussie Highland Games/Celtic Festival, back in March. Gave me the kick in the arse needed to wear the Buchanan kilt and get connected with the Clan Society... and the whisky tents 😅
@AncientExplorationCanadaАй бұрын
In my home town of Kincardine Ontario we did have the pipe band march down the main street, followed by other Pipe bands and in the end we all drank cider and ate the best chili in Victoria park
@ericthompson39822 ай бұрын
Oh, I wish I'd known! I'd have come to say hi! Though, sadly, my kilt was destroyed in my house fire.
@jacobdube97992 ай бұрын
Go to the Maxville Highland games! The largest highland games in Canada. It's usually the first or second weekend in August
@YewrinePish2 ай бұрын
Wait was this in Maxville/Alexandria? Nice. Out in Eastern Ontario there's tons of francophone ontarians with last names like MacDougall etc that all do highland games
@NatoBro2 ай бұрын
Great video!! That's a game I have not attended yet. I'm sure my daughter and her band were there competing. As for the tug o war, you see that at some games here in Ontario. The big one is at the Glengarry Highland Games at Maxville. Members of the Canadian Army reserve units come and put on a big tug o war event. Great fun!
@KevinHell2 ай бұрын
Glad the beer tent was able to stay open Bruce, all that mingling would have been thirsty work. The Games looked great and remind me of the Cowal Gathering Games in Dunoon in its scope. Keep up the great (thirsty)work.
@ScotlandHistoryTours2 ай бұрын
A dirty job, but I gritted my teeth and got on with it
@petergreig48322 ай бұрын
Clan societies aren't just a North American thing, we have them here in Australia too. It seems to be an 'Everywhere but Scotland' thing. Great to see the Clan Gregor tent in the background there, Ard Choille!
@ScotlandHistoryTours2 ай бұрын
Aye there probably was one there at the games I was at in McLean NSW last year
@coldlakealta40432 ай бұрын
One of our Maritime Provinces is called Nova Scotia - Latin for New Scotland. There is a very strong Scottish tradition there. The provincial flag is the cross of Saint Andrew with the lion rampant on a shield in the middle.
@ScotlandHistoryTours2 ай бұрын
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@coldlakealta40432 ай бұрын
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@SMac862 ай бұрын
Fantastic! I hope you can make it to the BC Highland Games in Coquitlam some year. Always a beer garden and whiskey tent! One year there was 300 pipers playing in unison. Also the SFU piper band regularly appears.
@DL_Burns2 ай бұрын
Great reaction video, Bruce! For the Tug of War event, Cambridge, Ontario would be the place I always watched it. From the sounds of it, not all but some have this event.
@Lowlandlord2 ай бұрын
Love this! I used to go to the one in Guelph Ontario every summer, been afew years now tho, something of a hermit now. I still remember sitting in a little valley as the bands came in with the drums sounding like thunder as the they bounced off the little hills around us, or something. 🥰
@OTOss82 ай бұрын
One of my fondest memories of travelling around Europe and the UK on my own when I was 17 was going to the Edinburgh Tattoo and getting to see my home town--and then world champion--SFU Pipe Band march out and show people how it's done on the west coast.
@joeprestera22392 ай бұрын
I thought you were in Maxville Glengarry Highland Games at first. That's a good one as well. Glad you had a great time. :)
@ScotlandHistoryTours2 ай бұрын
I am!
@andrewbrown12582 ай бұрын
Was great meeting you Bruce!! Free the Broons o’ Bo’ness😉🏴
@OcculiMortis2 ай бұрын
This was awesome. Looks like you had a great time Bruce.
@RBarnett4212 ай бұрын
If you're at maxville in August or Fergus ill buy you a pint for sure. Welcome to Canada and enjoy your time here
@rksnj67972 ай бұрын
Looking good in your kilt Bruce! I'm not surprised that a Ceilidh band would be playing Country music. From what I understand, Country music is derived from the music the Scots-Irish who settled in Appalachia brought with them.
@ScotlandHistoryTours2 ай бұрын
I know, but it's just not something I see in Scotland.
@Joseph1316314 күн бұрын
Doesn't happen in ireland either though country music Ceili(Dh is dropped in ireland) bands wouldn't play country music and country music bands wouldn't play Irish trad music .
@THE_CDNАй бұрын
This video makes me smile. 👍
@Blairrows892 ай бұрын
Me and my sister will be heading to the highland games in Fergus later this August, it will be her first time but my second. Enjoy your stay and some random trivia, Perthshire is where my clan hails from, the Blair's of Balthayock 🏴🙂