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6th April 21, 10:12 AM
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 Originally Posted by Boomer
Tartan Day is a North American celebration of Scottish heritage on April 6, the date on which the Declaration of Arbroath was signed in 1320. It originated in Canada in the mid-1980s. It spread to other communities of the Scottish diaspora in the 1990s. In Australia the similar International Tartan Day is held on July 1, the anniversary of the repeal of the 1747 Act of Proscription that banned the wearing of tartan, so the whole thing started here in Canada, go us! 
The Act of Proscription was made law in 1746 but came into effect the following year. It did not ban tartan but the wearing of Highland Clothes by some Men and Boys.
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