Help Me Choose a Tartan!

[ForresterModern]

Just a little Canadian trivia...Canada's first two Prime Ministers, John A. MacDonald and Alexander MacKenzie were born in Scotland. The sixth PM spent several years in Edinburgh where he broke with his Baptist faith tasting whiskey for the first time. The last Prime Minister of Upper Canada, Allan MacNab,was born in Canada of Scottish parents and became the chief of Clan MacNab. While Canada is a non-Scottish country, we can lay claim to a great deal of tartan blood.

Thanks Dix, for the correction and education. I guess I should have said countries that were not Scotland itself, rather than leave open the scottish heritage door.

There certainly is/was a lot of scottish blood in Canada, probably as much as there originally was in the early colonial days of the US. Nova Scotia (New Scotland) is enough evidence for that, let alone all the other things you mentioned. I know in the US it is estimated that 60% of the serving line soldiers, enlisted as well as militia, in the colonial army during the US Revolutionary War were of Scottish or Scots-Irish origin or heritage. The Scots/Scots Irish immigrations are still believed to be the largest cultural group statisticially to ever enter the US, but becasue it was over more than 150 years and before great records were kept over here it is the least well known, compared to the forced immigration of slaves from Africa, the Irish immigration in the 1800s and subsequent european, asian, indian subcontinent, and Hispanic immigrations of later years.

Thanks, Dix.

jeff