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    Scotiana Wishes You a Very Happy Holiday Season!

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    May the bells of Happiness ring merrily for you at Christmas.

    Nollaig chridheil agus Bliadhna mhath ùr! ( Merry Christmas!  in Gaelic)

    Festive Greetings

    From everyone at Scotiana, we wish you and yours a happy holiday and a healthy and prosperous new year. We are honored to have you as loyal readers and truly [...]

    Scottish Christmas Stories for Christmas Time…

     

    Tombe la neige Source: Le portail anti-crise

     

    Joyeux Noël à tous !!!

    Santa Claus will very soon be at our doorstep or should I say up on the roof, ready to drop precious little presents into our chimney, ‘wee surprises’ as Iain and Margaret would say . Why not read or re-read [...]

    Glasgow Necropolis: A Monument to ‘Child Migrants’…

     

    Glasgow Necropolis © 2007 Scotiana

     

    Here fond affection

    rears its sculpted stone…

    (from John Henry Alexander’s epitaph – Glasgow Necropolis)

     

    “CEMETERIES ARE FOR THE LIVING. Sure, the dead are the permanent residents and the living merely visitors but the Necropolis and every other burying [...]

    Opera Tells Story of Scottish Slaves Hekja & Haki

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    Celtic Life – 25th Anniversary – Special Edition

     

    On this beautiful sunshined day, while reading away stories from Celtic Life -  25th Anniversary Special Edition which compiles the “Best of the Best” articles published in the last quarter century,  a title grabbed my fullest attention: Child Slaves From Scotland; A Story rarely [...]

    An Enigmatic Pianist – and two Opera Stars!

     

    The Scots Magazine octobre 2011

    Bonjour Janice, Marie-Agnès et Jean-Claude  -  Hello again from Scotland!

    Marie-Agnès and Jean-Claude, do you still have a subscription to The Scots Magazine, the famous journal first published in 1739?

    We don’t have one ourselves, but were interested to find that the October 2011 issue contained a [...]