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Dear friends, I am so excited to write about the story of an abandoned village, Rivière de La Guerre, located in the province of Quebec, where Scottish settlers began to come over from the Hebrides Archipelago, west of the Highlands. Originally, the area was called Godmanchester. Named after a man known as Francois dit […]
. A Work for Poets To have carved on the days of our vanity A sun A ship A star A cornstalk Also a few marks From an ancient forgotten time A child may read That not far from the stone A well […]
Sailing on towards Iona aboard the Calendonian MacBrayne ferry © 2003 Scotiana
Hi everybody, Our journey goes on in Argyll and the Isles, in search of the best of Scotland and today a little passenger ferry will lead us to Iona, one of the jewels of Argyll & The Isles. With […]
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 […] |
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