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    Hogmanay! A Scottish New Year Celebration at the Mackenzie House in Toronto, Canada

    Mackenzie House, Toronto, Canada

    The Mackenzie House, in downtown Toronto, commemorates the city’s Scottish heritage by hosting a party to celebrate the Hogmanay traditions.

    To the sound of traditional Scottish music and tasting of some of Scotland’s best traditional recipes, the museum, for the event, will be lit by gas and candlelight.

    The Mackenzie [...]

    Scotiana Wishes You A Very Merry Christmas !

    During this festive season, it is definitely a time to be jolly, and to let adults become kids again but more importantly, it is a time to show our appreciation to the people around us, and share our blessings with the less fortunate.

    May the bells of Happiness ring merrily for you [...]

    From Walter Scott’s Black & White Tartan Design to Famous Scottish Clans Tartans Card Set

    Hi Mairiuna! What a surprise when I read your most recent post A Writing Day For Walter Scott in Company of His Favourite Dogs and noticed on one of your photographs the pattern of his study’s carpet ! It’s the Black & White tartan designed by Sir Walter Scott in 1822. 

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    A Writing Day for Walter Scott in Company of His Favourite Dogs

    Walter Scott bust Abbotsford Scotiana.com

    We’ll begin the new year, on Scotiana,  with our reading of Walter Scott’s Rob Roy, one of the most famous Waverley novels. The French and English audio files will be available for download as well. That’ll take some doing but Janice and I are very enthusiastic about sharing with [...]

    Scottish Tartans: “Children of the Mist”, The Clan MacGregor

    Rob MacGregor His Life His Time by W H Murray

    Hi Mairiuna!  Upon reading your last post Rob Roy, one of Walter Scott’s Most Popular Novels,  which I found so informative,   it reminded me that I had purchased last summer a biography of Rob Roy MacGregor,  His Life and Times written in 1982 [...]