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  • Are Highland Games the same over the world? Afro Celtic Scottish history tour guide, Bruce Fummey, goes to a highland games in Canada to see how it differs from the one in his own village back home.
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  • @ScotlandHistoryTours
    @ScotlandHistoryTours  Месяц назад +21

    Support the channel with Patreon www.patreon.com/scotlandhistorytours
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    • @mojorocketman
      @mojorocketman Месяц назад

      Is it true the Scottish used rocks for training because the English forbid them from using weapons? I know when the Emperor of China banned weapons in fear of an uprising, they learned to use farm tools as weapons.

    • @Xacute00
      @Xacute00 28 дней назад

      I was there it was sooooo cool to see you there, thank you for coming here to Canada to meet the diaspora!

    • @GEBNP
      @GEBNP 26 дней назад

      Johnny Cash was indeed of English and Scottish descent. :)

    • @squiglees
      @squiglees 20 дней назад

      WHERE in Ontario is this??!!!??? There are games all across the Province which is the size of 10 or more Scotlands...

    • @Xacute00
      @Xacute00 20 дней назад

      @@squiglees Its east of Toronto in Cobourg, also many around Toronto and Ottawa, Glengarry Highland Games is very popular and has military regiments show up as they are near a base.

  • @bradlilly8603
    @bradlilly8603 Месяц назад +101

    The Scotts gave us everything except pants Bruce, except pants

    • @GoBlueGirl78
      @GoBlueGirl78 Месяц назад +5

      😂😂

    • @dadeffone
      @dadeffone 25 дней назад +2

      Funnily enough, they gave us Jeans

    • @Angela-gn1xq
      @Angela-gn1xq 24 дня назад +1

      Who needs pants?

    • @tracymuckle8512
      @tracymuckle8512 24 дня назад +1

      I'm thankful, nothing is sexier than a man in his kilt! 😍

    • @Matthewgrandy
      @Matthewgrandy 23 дня назад +1

      How else are you gonna keep the flies off your dinner?

  • @graywolf4208
    @graywolf4208 Месяц назад +404

    A scotsman is a scotsman regardless of the color of their skin. And Bruce is as Scottish as they come. Sláinte Bruce! 🥃

    • @mattmiller5014
      @mattmiller5014 Месяц назад +1

      Bullsh#t

    • @richardrybicki749
      @richardrybicki749 Месяц назад +14

      Have a dear friend who is Scottish ,pure Cherokee .

    • @haraldtheyounger5504
      @haraldtheyounger5504 Месяц назад +10

      And here's me thinking he's just got a good tan, from all those trips abroad. I'm from Norwegian/Irish heritage, 100% not British, pure Scottish. No ginger hair, strangely enough, just down there.

    • @lindamazur6124
      @lindamazur6124 Месяц назад

      😅 TMI ​@@haraldtheyounger5504

    • @stevenb427
      @stevenb427 Месяц назад +15

      Bruce is the definition of SCOTTISHNESS!! This man is a legend for us Jocks. 🙌 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

  • @ScotlandHistoryTours
    @ScotlandHistoryTours  Месяц назад +113

    I'm in Guelph now. I did a show in Fergus last night

    • @thehellyousay
      @thehellyousay Месяц назад +1

      my grandparents lived in embro. most of my childhood and teen years were spent living in oxford county. my mom was an armstrong, my dad a bailey. so friggin' scots, i bleed plaid. enjoy the games.

    • @mikevantrigt4317
      @mikevantrigt4317 Месяц назад +5

      You must come back sometime for the festival in Fergus. I live in Guelph and go every year. I've just started into the heavies and we camp for the weekend, it is great. If you enjoyed Port Hope, you certainly would not be disappointed in Fergus.

    • @christinec642
      @christinec642 Месяц назад +2

      The Embro Highland Games were today. Held on Canada Day every year. Pipe band competition, highland dancing competition, heavy events, tug o' war, and whiskey tasting. Love to have you visit next time.

    • @reneeangele4766
      @reneeangele4766 Месяц назад +1

      I grew up in that area. My parents loved the Scottish games. We are not Scottish, but my mom liked the kilts so she could check out the men's legs, lol

    • @RBarnett421
      @RBarnett421 29 дней назад +2

      Aue lad!!!! Fergus us a great games!!! If you're still in Canada August 2nd 3rd. Glen Garry highland games in Mayville. I will see you there and buy you a pint!!!!

  • @ceilidhmckay9066
    @ceilidhmckay9066 Месяц назад +97

    Another Canadian fact of interest. The famous Cowichan First Nations sweater
    Pattern of Vancouver Island has it's roots in Scotland. In 1885 Jemina Colvin, a settler from Shetland Island, homesteaded near Duncan BC and shared her fair isle knitting pattern with local indigenous women and they adapted the pattern into their own beautiful and distinctive knitting style. 😊

    • @ScotlandHistoryTours
      @ScotlandHistoryTours  Месяц назад +18

      THAT is interesting

    • @g-urts5518
      @g-urts5518 28 дней назад +7

      My sister lived in Lake Cowichan for years. Absolutely gorgeous out there

    • @dmacpher
      @dmacpher 27 дней назад +4

      Born and raised in Duncan and I had no idea! Neat

    • @ceilidhmckay9066
      @ceilidhmckay9066 27 дней назад +1

      @@dmacpher Love Duncan and looking forward to the summer music fest! Bruce is in Victoria now and I hope he manages a visit "up island" at some point!

    • @ceilidhmckay9066
      @ceilidhmckay9066 27 дней назад +2

      @@dmacpher I just looked up info on Jeremina Covin on Familysearch. She was born Jeremina Robertson in 1859 at Tingwall Whiteness and Weisdale. Her husband Robert Mouat Colvin was also born on Shetland. They lived in Cowichan Station, Duncan and had 6 children. Jeremina died in 1937, age 78 and is buried, along with her husband and some of her children, at St.Peters Anglican cemetery in Duncan ( Quamichan)

  • @TheSlider535
    @TheSlider535 Месяц назад +103

    Bruce, I'm a Morrison 77yo , My Dad was Gaelic speaking Scots from The Isle of Harris, I'm glad your enjoying my Country !!

    • @ScotlandHistoryTours
      @ScotlandHistoryTours  Месяц назад +19

      It's been great fun

    • @nakmuay7705
      @nakmuay7705 29 дней назад +8

      Hey, I'm a Cuthbertson from Canada. I was always told we were too small to have our own clan, so we were part of the Morrisons from the Hebrides. Found out they go back to a Norse sea king named Olaf the black and going back further to Norway, all the way back to Ragnar Lothbrok!

    • @kimhackett9675
      @kimhackett9675 19 дней назад +2

      Oh hey there! My dad was a Morrison who was able to trace his family back to the Isle of Lewis - distant, distant relations, perhaps!

  • @ceilidh524
    @ceilidh524 Месяц назад +69

    Hey Bruce, here in Antigonish, known as the “Highland Heart of Nova Scotia”, we have the 159th running of the Antigonish Highland games, which is the longest running Highland Games in North America, from July 7-14. Céad míle fáilte (One hundred thousand welcomes)!

    • @LittleWoba
      @LittleWoba Месяц назад +2

      Actually, ours on Van Isle has been running for 161 years 🍁

    • @iamjakt
      @iamjakt 29 дней назад +4

      @@LittleWoba Antigonish, from their highland games site : "the oldest continuous Highland Games in the world outside of Scotland, running since 1863"

    • @cowtipnupchuckr
      @cowtipnupchuckr 28 дней назад +2

      "Continuous" is probably the key thing here.

    • @gravyvcolouredhair1731
      @gravyvcolouredhair1731 28 дней назад +2

      I'm from Cape Breton, I've never heard anyone call Antigonish the "Highland Heart of Nova Scotia" especially since you have no highlands at all...

    • @haleyd2951
      @haleyd2951 27 дней назад +6

      ​@gravyvcolouredhair1731 I agree, I'm Nova Scotian and I've never heard of Antigonish as the NS highlands. Cape Breton is considered to be Nova Scotia's equivalent to the Scottish Highlands because it actually has highlands that are also from the exact same formation as the Scottish highlands and the Appalachian mountains.

  • @Martin.Wilson
    @Martin.Wilson Месяц назад +28

    I'm 70 now, but was a piper in Ontario starting in the '60's. We played at all the games....Embro, Dutton, Fergus, Brantford, Maxville and many others as well. We'd practice all winter long and the games were a weekly event every summer. Our band actually had the privilege to compete in Scotland in '69 and '72. So many memories.

    • @ScotlandHistoryTours
      @ScotlandHistoryTours  Месяц назад +3

      Brilliant

    • @Hrossey
      @Hrossey 27 дней назад

      I hope yous got pumped when yous competed. Like absolutely embarrassed levels of pumped ❤🤭
      Cannae be Scottish and cheer on foreigners lol x

    • @waywardmind
      @waywardmind 17 дней назад +1

      Went to high school 40 minutes from Maxville. The games were always a yearly tradition for people like 150 km around.

  • @paulholmes4697
    @paulholmes4697 Месяц назад +73

    Here's a Scot in Canada you might want to cover: Alexander MacKenzie. He was an explorer and travelled from Montreal to the coast of BC, the first European to do so. Along the way he followed a river to the artic ocean which he named the river of despair, since renamed the MacKenzie river. He carved his name & date into a rock face, still visible, on the Pacific coast a mere few weeks separated him & Captain George Vancouver's exploration of the same coast. The Americans Clark & Lewis read his memoirs to prepare for their journey 12 years later. There are schools, roads and many other things named for him in this country. A new river class destroyer will be named HMCS MacKenzie. He ended his days in Scotland.
    (Another amazing scot was John rae who discovered the fate of the Franklin expedition by hiking there solo. He was blackballed by Lady Franklin because he reported cannibalism).

    • @ScotlandHistoryTours
      @ScotlandHistoryTours  Месяц назад +17

      I know, I thought about him, but didn't have a canoe

    • @kholden2678
      @kholden2678 Месяц назад +6

      @@ScotlandHistoryTours Both Alexander MacKenzie and John Rae have stories that connect to the family of Cuthbert Grant Sr. whose children founded the Metis Nation. Cuthbert Grant Jr. and Queen Victoria were 8th great grandchildren of King James V. Next time you're in Hamilton Ontario let me know and I'll give you a private tour of some sites connected to Scottish history including John Rae, and reveal my hidden famliy connection to them.

    • @wtspman
      @wtspman Месяц назад +5

      On the theme of Scottish engineers and scientists, there’s also Sandford Fleming, easily worth a video

    • @WilliamHunter
      @WilliamHunter Месяц назад +1

      Here's an interesting Scot for Pacific Northwest - Archibald McDonald (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archibald_McDonald) and his son Ranald who explored south Vancouver Island then went to Japan (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranald_MacDonald)

    • @ScotlandHistoryTours
      @ScotlandHistoryTours  Месяц назад +1

      @@WilliamHunter ruclips.net/video/GwlZjC7AYus/видео.html

  • @rkgrant
    @rkgrant Месяц назад +31

    Pipes and Drums are a BIG part of canadian military traditions...now and in every conflict we're been involved in...WWII, WWI, Afganisthan, the Boer war, the seven years war...

    • @queenally2873
      @queenally2873 29 дней назад +3

      As an American living in Nova Scotia, I LOVE seeing a parade with all the Pipe and Drum bands. We were all about marching bands where I came from, and while I enjoy them, I prefer the bagpipes.

  • @alansmithee8831
    @alansmithee8831 Месяц назад +35

    A'reyt Bruce. The family I stayed with in Ontario were Scottish by ancestry. The grandad, who was Scottish, quite took to me as I had not heard all his stories and he had a new audience, though I also think my "having time of day for folk" Yorkshire attitude helped us get on. It was said I had been adopted.
    In Vancouver I thought I was getting on famously with celtic looking redhead French speaking lass, but then I realised that no matter the background or the language we were speaking, she was just being a friendly Canadian.

  • @julianndavis9415
    @julianndavis9415 Месяц назад +26

    This is off to a good start
    The mum and her son dashing across the screen didn’t distract me until he took a nose dive.
    Ok, back to the show!

  • @jameshorne9351
    @jameshorne9351 Месяц назад +53

    Bruce in a kilt, you should do it a lil more often, looking good!! 💙🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

    • @Beanboiwolf
      @Beanboiwolf Месяц назад +6

      Don't forget the modern take on a traditional linen shirt looks great on him!

    • @rksnj6797
      @rksnj6797 Месяц назад +2

      Agreed! Bruce looks great in his kilt!

  • @kurtmooreca
    @kurtmooreca Месяц назад +8

    Thanks for covering a little bit of my Country paying homage to yours. Scotland heritage and culture is deeply engrained in the Canadian identity...and our Highland Games events are always a blast, great way to experience a taste of the old Country.

  • @KellyAnn1997
    @KellyAnn1997 Месяц назад +12

    It’s amazing how many Highland Games are still held all over…including here in the US (Michigan too where I’m from). In fact, a neighbor flies the Scots flag. They’re everywhere! 😂 Love the kilt Bruce!

    • @BeeuTforAshes
      @BeeuTforAshes Месяц назад +2

      Are you talking about the Alma games? It's been years since I've been to it. I'm in Lansing. A little bit Scotish too.

  • @christophersilsby7829
    @christophersilsby7829 Месяц назад +8

    My aunts have a friend who they meet in Toronto. She is from Nova Scotia. She is a Bagpiper with the complete official Scotish outfit for a Bagpiper.

  • @LiqdPT
    @LiqdPT Месяц назад +7

    My university has a pipe band that has won multiple (when I was going there it was 5, but it's more now) world championships. AFAIK, it was the first band outside the UK to win multiple (or back to back). That school? Simon Fraser University just outside Vancouver, BC, Canada.

  • @dougdavidson175
    @dougdavidson175 Месяц назад +8

    Expat Canuck living in Perthshire! Thanks for posting. Take care & stay safe.

  • @cynthiagordon6087
    @cynthiagordon6087 22 дня назад +1

    I have found memories of going to the highland games in Barrie, ON as a child. It was always a great time. My great grandparents were from Aberdeen.

  • @frankkelly2245
    @frankkelly2245 Месяц назад +13

    Bruce posts I must watch.

  • @canadianbacon9819
    @canadianbacon9819 23 дня назад +2

    Scottish Canadian and proud! Great video man hope you enjoyed the trip to our country. It could be in a better State and it will be in the future 🙏🏻

    • @ScotlandHistoryTours
      @ScotlandHistoryTours  23 дня назад +3

      I'm still here and loving it

    • @canadianbacon9819
      @canadianbacon9819 23 дня назад +2

      @@ScotlandHistoryTours That is great to hear man, I also live in Ontario, there is nothing short of things to do and things to see. Enjoy the rest of your time in our fine country brother!

  • @GuruishMike
    @GuruishMike Месяц назад +5

    I grew up going to the Highland Games in New Glasgow and Antigonish.

  • @Aaron-df6jc
    @Aaron-df6jc 17 дней назад +2

    A Scot is Scot!!! They are a tough people !! Love the scots - everywhere!!!!!♥️🇨🇦🐈‍⬛🇫🇮Welcome to Canada.♥️♥️♥️♥️

  • @mtlnascarfan
    @mtlnascarfan 27 дней назад +2

    So very proud of my Irish/Scottish roots (Maxwell/Mundy) based here in Montreal.
    Can't help but smile with a tear in my eye when I hear the sound of the pipes.

  • @susanb4816
    @susanb4816 28 дней назад +2

    I live in ottawa. One of those bands practices in the park beside my house every saturday for 4-6 hours. I absolutely love it

  • @4gunslinger
    @4gunslinger Месяц назад +5

    I've gone to the Highland games in my home state here in the U.S. every year since i was a kid. It's always a good time and a great group of people.
    I've always wondered what the native Scots make of all this 😅

  • @andersthorson5628
    @andersthorson5628 Месяц назад +16

    Grateful to be part of the Highland games in the US my entire life (as a piper) and to have passed it down to my children and grandchildren.

  • @cynthiaeaton2342
    @cynthiaeaton2342 Месяц назад +5

    Hello Bruce, I’m one of your loyal Patreon members and just wanted to say I’m excited to see you in Victoria BC Canada on July 13th. !!

  • @SheldonT.
    @SheldonT. Месяц назад +7

    There's none more Scot than the Scots abroad 🎶

  • @brisetta
    @brisetta Месяц назад +3

    This is an incredible video! Welcome to my country, we welcome you with open arms! Happy Canada Day from Toronto! My moms family came to Canada from Scotland in the early 1900s, around 1905, and its just lovely to hear your accent reminds me of my family who still live there to this day!

  • @petebaldry5033
    @petebaldry5033 Месяц назад +15

    It was great to see you in person last night in Fergus!! Keep the videos coming; it’s a weekly ritual to watch you Saturday mornings with my tea!! Enjoy the rest of your time here!!

    • @Exotic3000
      @Exotic3000 Месяц назад +4

      Thanks for posting. I was born in Fergus! ❤

  • @fartsinthewind
    @fartsinthewind Месяц назад +3

    In the legendary words of the late John Mann, “there’s none more Scots than the Scots abroad.” 😂 I’ve been to games that have had a tug o’war here in Ontario before. I think each games is a little bit different. Not by much, but little things. Specific traditions, degree of formality, etc What I tend to enjoy most is when each individual band practices in random locations through the day. It’s nice to be walking around and come across a circle of musicians playing together, and sometime a dancer will join and preform some highland dancing in the round. Good times always.

  • @reneedevry4361
    @reneedevry4361 Месяц назад +2

    This was a great video.
    Grandfather was a Cameron from Findhorn. We live in Ottawa so go to the Glengarry Highland Games in early August about once every 4 or 5 years. Happens on the same weekend as our favorite Pagan Festival😆
    Not much for beer but munching shortbread while listening to pipes is a must.
    Hope you are enjoying your stay in Canada👍

  • @gregsmith9862
    @gregsmith9862 Месяц назад +6

    A Highland Games is held in Glasgow Kentucky annually. It’s really good and if you’re in the area you should check it out. There’s a lot of Scots-Irish here as they originally settled the area. note, my Duncan, Alexander, Brockett, ancestors fought in both the French & Indian and the Revolutionary wars. As best I can find, most of them came over in the early 1700’s to 1750’s, and as they were Presbyterian I think they were of the Covenanter group that migrated through northern Ireland, but I’ve got more research to do on this. Greetings from Louisville Ky

  • @anneedge3627
    @anneedge3627 27 дней назад +3

    As a Canadian, a descendant of the McLean and Macdonald clans, I love this Scottish man. He is clever, and talented, and makes me laugh so much when I watch his videos. He really knows his history. Anyone who has the nerve to say that he isn’t Scottish because of his African blood just makes me snort, it is so ridiculous.

    • @ScotlandHistoryTours
      @ScotlandHistoryTours  26 дней назад +1

      Ah thanks

    • @brandyjean7015
      @brandyjean7015 14 дней назад

      ​​@@ScotlandHistoryTours I'm an American with an Armstrong greatgrams...and a broadsword. I'll defend that you are a Scot: my witty, humorous Bruce!

  • @Hogey501
    @Hogey501 23 дня назад +1

    Hi Bruce, I'm an English born grandson of a Scot who now lives in Canada. I watch your video's all the time, and Lo and behold up pops my daughter and son-in laws band on the screen!. Thanks for that, Paul in Ontario, Canada. (The Celtic band in the tent).

  • @HistoryHereAtHome
    @HistoryHereAtHome Месяц назад +19

    A pleasure to meet and talk to you Bruce and Zak!! Glad to see myself at 4:29 🇨🇦🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

    • @rafaelbarreto2658
      @rafaelbarreto2658 24 дня назад

      Hey where did this happened and when will the next event be?

  • @colinthompson3111
    @colinthompson3111 Месяц назад +4

    Thank you, Bruce, for this video and visiting us in Canada.

  • @brookechang4942
    @brookechang4942 23 дня назад +1

    I'm not Scottish myself, but I know a lot of the original European immigrants to Canada were from Scotland. Glad to see we made a good impression!

  • @THISISBEAR
    @THISISBEAR Месяц назад +3

    Welcome to Canada from a Scottish descendant...my parents....I am the only one born in this country. I've never been to the games but would love to see the caber toss! At any rate, I hope you enjoy your time here and of course the games. Safe travels.

  • @rockbutcher
    @rockbutcher Месяц назад +3

    I'm Canadian and my Clan Farquharson coat of arms hangs in the front entrance to my house. I even have the kilt, in the Officer's pattern.

  • @lelleithmurray235
    @lelleithmurray235 Месяц назад +4

    Lovely video Bruce. Glad you had a good time!😊

  • @hollyjensen2371
    @hollyjensen2371 Месяц назад +3

    so nice. can't wait for the NH highland games this fall in New Hampshire. already got tickets. three days worth of good times

  • @glenfletcher5746
    @glenfletcher5746 Месяц назад +2

    Great talking with you and your son that day!! Didn't know the camera was on either. Glad to have you at the games in proper Scottish/Canadian style. Great video!

  • @Coddiwompling
    @Coddiwompling Месяц назад +2

    Thanks for sharing new videos as you travel Canada! As always, I appreciate your content.

  • @wrmp
    @wrmp Месяц назад +2

    Truly enjoyed the interview and the great job done by Bruce as Honorary Chieftain who provided really shining moments during a great festival day at Northumberland.

  • @PFWoody488
    @PFWoody488 Месяц назад +6

    Ya had me at "Furious Fengerin".

  • @wesmartin1210
    @wesmartin1210 Месяц назад +4

    I have always loved the sound of the pipes and all that goes with the highland Games!

    • @hollyjensen2371
      @hollyjensen2371 Месяц назад +1

      when you hear them do you get a tightness in your chest and are just drawn to go to them? Maybe its the nova scotian part of me, (I don't even think i have scottish ancestry) but i feel like a moth to a flame when I hear the pipes. past lives maybe.

    • @wesmartin1210
      @wesmartin1210 Месяц назад

      @@hollyjensen2371 Yes, I do! I get motivated hearing them. Does it feel like they stir the soul? They do for me.

    • @hollyjensen2371
      @hollyjensen2371 Месяц назад +1

      @@wesmartin1210 they do stir something in the soul, at times I almost tear up (I know that sounds silly) but there it is.

    • @wesmartin1210
      @wesmartin1210 Месяц назад +1

      @@hollyjensen2371 It does not sound silly at all because I almost tear up as well. You are in good company.

  • @crazychicSHENA
    @crazychicSHENA Месяц назад +5

    Welcome to Canadian hill's🇨🇦💯🕊️🥰😊

  • @confederatecwby69
    @confederatecwby69 Месяц назад +14

    Johnny Cash born in Kingsland, Arkansas, on February 26, 1932, to Carrie Cloveree (née Rivers) and Ray Cash. He had three older siblings, Roy, Margaret Louise, and Jack, and three younger siblings, Reba, Joanne, and Tommy (who also became a successful country artist). He was primarily of English and Scottish descent.

    • @MoosefromCanada
      @MoosefromCanada Месяц назад +4

      And Johnny‘S first wife was black . Isn’t that interesting mr. Confederate? 🤣🤣🫡‼️🇨🇦 my family came North in 1860 . Irish, Scottish and Nigerian Slave

    • @moniquetroth
      @moniquetroth Месяц назад +2

      @@MoosefromCanada Except the closest black relative she had was "one of her four maternal great-great-great-grandmothers was Sally Shields, a woman of mixed-race who was born into slavery in Alabama." (Wikipedia) Vivian was primarily Sicilian on her father's side & German/Irish on her mother's.

    • @kh1046
      @kh1046 Месяц назад +1

      Not about Canada tho. Let's work on that.

  • @WeeWalks
    @WeeWalks Месяц назад +15

    Great to see. I don't think we appreciate the Scottish diaspora enough.

  • @matthewardill4297
    @matthewardill4297 29 дней назад +1

    My friend's uncle and cousin are pipers at those games. Glad you visited and welcome to Canada!

  • @martinford2475
    @martinford2475 22 дня назад +2

    Great production and sound quality

  • @ChristinaMacDonald777
    @ChristinaMacDonald777 Месяц назад +1

    My grandfather Duncan MacDonald💓(Rest in Peace🕊🍃✨️✝️✨️), was born and raised Nova Scotia, Canada. He taught us very well to know, our blood is from the Highlands!💪🏞💯.
    To the Highlands we go!
    Love the Highland games. Used to go every year with my dad💓(Rest in Peace🕊🍃✨️✝️✨️). They're held nearby in Vista, Ca.
    Thank you for this great video!
    Love this!
    God bless.

  • @Hsalf904
    @Hsalf904 Месяц назад +4

    Would’ve been cool to go to Antigonish Highland Games in Nova Scotia - oldest outside of Scotland! They’re happening in mid July

  • @SylviusTheMad
    @SylviusTheMad Месяц назад +2

    There have been Highland Games held in Victoria, on Vancouver Island, every year since 1864. It was there I had the best haggis I've ever tasted (in classic west coast style, the haggis was cooked in a wok).

  • @rtcameron1
    @rtcameron1 Месяц назад +1

    My hometown, Antigonish, Nova Scotia has the longest continuous Highland Games outside of Scotland!

  • @vincentstuart9562
    @vincentstuart9562 Месяц назад +1

    Bruce sounds like he'd be a fun person to spend a day with just by the energy he gives off

  • @CS58420
    @CS58420 Месяц назад +9

    So glad Bruce is seeing all the places in Canada I and others suggested. Hope the entire journey is nothing but excellent

    • @ScotlandHistoryTours
      @ScotlandHistoryTours  Месяц назад +2

      What could possibly go wrong?

    • @CS58420
      @CS58420 Месяц назад +1

      @@ScotlandHistoryTours Well you just never know I guess. Are you still going to Perth Ontario? I'm hoping to see you live in Calgary but forgot the date you were planning to be there

  • @coldlakealta4043
    @coldlakealta4043 Месяц назад +3

    One of our Maritime Provinces is called Nova Scotia - Latin for New Scotland. There is a very strong Scottish tradition there. The provincial flag is the cross of Saint Andrew with the lion rampant on a shield in the middle.

  • @brians_casual_shenanigans
    @brians_casual_shenanigans Месяц назад +2

    Attended my first Aussie Highland Games/Celtic Festival, back in March. Gave me the kick in the arse needed to wear the Buchanan kilt and get connected with the Clan Society... and the whisky tents 😅

  • @ProfMichaelMacD
    @ProfMichaelMacD Месяц назад +1

    You're awesome! As a Cape Bretoner, I welcome you to Canada 🇨🇦 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 By the way, a good friend of mine is from Ghana, and joined a Canadian Armed Forces Reserve unit called the Cape Breton Highlanders! He rocked the kilt, too!

  • @rksnj6797
    @rksnj6797 Месяц назад +3

    Looking good in your kilt Bruce! I'm not surprised that a Ceilidh band would be playing Country music. From what I understand, Country music is derived from the music the Scots-Irish who settled in Appalachia brought with them.

  • @cjgia4898
    @cjgia4898 23 дня назад +1

    Bruce, you’re the man! Love your videos! 😊✌🏻❤🙏🏼

  • @carolinemackenzie6043
    @carolinemackenzie6043 26 дней назад

    so excited to see your show here in my hometown on Saturday!

  • @petergreig4832
    @petergreig4832 Месяц назад +4

    Clan societies aren't just a North American thing, we have them here in Australia too. It seems to be an 'Everywhere but Scotland' thing. Great to see the Clan Gregor tent in the background there, Ard Choille!

    • @ScotlandHistoryTours
      @ScotlandHistoryTours  Месяц назад +1

      Aye there probably was one there at the games I was at in McLean NSW last year

  • @rkgrant
    @rkgrant Месяц назад +2

    I was at your Montreal show and have been looking forward to videos from your Canada tour. Thanks for this cousin. - Randall Kenneth Grant - Montreal, Qc

    • @ScotlandHistoryTours
      @ScotlandHistoryTours  Месяц назад

      Thanks for coming. There are another five Canada videos up so far

  • @brianscott3392
    @brianscott3392 Месяц назад +1

    Quite enjoyed your coverage of the Scottish Highland Games! Thank you Bruce. 🙂👍🇨🇦

  • @OcculiMortis
    @OcculiMortis Месяц назад +1

    This was awesome. Looks like you had a great time Bruce.

  • @kylebrooks338
    @kylebrooks338 12 дней назад

    We just had our Highland Games this passed weekend. Made sure to wear my clan pin, ended up running into fellow Frasers, it was a fun time

  • @timothyrobson3325
    @timothyrobson3325 Месяц назад +3

    Fun meeting you and Zak in Fergus. Entertaining stand up show. Class act

  • @keithhawthorne5630
    @keithhawthorne5630 9 дней назад

    The McCready's of Ireland immigrated from Scotland a 1000 years ago and never lost their Scottish heritage. You'll find plenty of Scotts-Irish in the US and Canada, proudly wearing their tartan. It does my heart good that you like us Canadians. We have a very strong sense of self.

  • @OTOss8
    @OTOss8 27 дней назад +1

    One of my fondest memories of travelling around Europe and the UK on my own when I was 17 was going to the Edinburgh Tattoo and getting to see my home town--and then world champion--SFU Pipe Band march out and show people how it's done on the west coast.

  • @Lowlandlord
    @Lowlandlord Месяц назад +1

    Love this! I used to go to the one in Guelph Ontario every summer, been afew years now tho, something of a hermit now. I still remember sitting in a little valley as the bands came in with the drums sounding like thunder as the they bounced off the little hills around us, or something. 🥰

  • @debbiegilmour6171
    @debbiegilmour6171 Месяц назад +3

    We have showies in Moray. Only place I've ever heard the term come to think of it.

  • @AncientExplorationCanada
    @AncientExplorationCanada 4 дня назад

    In my home town of Kincardine Ontario we did have the pipe band march down the main street, followed by other Pipe bands and in the end we all drank cider and ate the best chili in Victoria park

  • @planesandbikes7353
    @planesandbikes7353 25 дней назад

    This is great. Thanks for coming and documenting a highland games here in Canada! I grew up attending the highland games around my family's region in Embro Ontario. great memories

  • @mikejackson9105
    @mikejackson9105 Месяц назад

    Great video of you time at the Games, I was wondering when you would put it out. We were there to support our friend in one of the bands.
    The games are fun to watch and support.

  • @ericthompson3982
    @ericthompson3982 Месяц назад +3

    Oh, I wish I'd known! I'd have come to say hi! Though, sadly, my kilt was destroyed in my house fire.

  • @martinwoodworking
    @martinwoodworking 16 дней назад

    My home town just hosted a Highland Games as well as a highland dancing contest with a judge from Scotland.

  • @frankmckinley1254
    @frankmckinley1254 Месяц назад +1

    Thanks for posting another great video.👍

  • @trishwinstead28
    @trishwinstead28 Месяц назад +1

    Thanks for taking me along with you!

  • @Mike-eo5jk
    @Mike-eo5jk Месяц назад +1

    Greetings from Michigan, USA, Bruce, I was competing at the highland games in Kingsville, Ontario on June 22nd and had tickets to your show in Seaform. Unfortunately, I miscalculated the distance and realized it was a 3-hour drive and wouldn't make it to the show on time. I'm sure it was great and I hope to see you another time!

  • @GamelanSinarSurya
    @GamelanSinarSurya 26 дней назад

    Your enthusiasm and energy are fantastic!

  • @BoadiceanRevenge
    @BoadiceanRevenge Месяц назад +1

    Wonderful video Bruce, cheers me dear! 🙋🙏🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇪

  • @M2lsBc
    @M2lsBc Месяц назад +1

    It was fun to see you explore the Highland Games in Port hope! That is where I live. Just walking distance from the fairgrounds where it was held. Unfortunately I missed the event because I’m in Nova Scotia visiting my 2 sons who are renovating a house for me 😊

  • @sadie2914
    @sadie2914 28 дней назад

    Thank you for the stories of the highland games back home for you! I hope one day i can go to scotland and see it in peraon🙏🖤

  • @df6990
    @df6990 22 дня назад +1

    This is the 1st video I've seen and it was nice that it was about the Canadian Highland Games (in Ontario). I enjoyed your interview with William (Bill) Petrie (of CASSOC) and my clan society (Clan Fergusson) is a member of CASSOC). As others have suggested, I hope you will attend either Glengarry or Fergus as they are the 2 largest in Ontario and you will most definitely see tug of war. In fact, Glengarry will have the members of the RCMP there and their horses as part of the opening ceremonies.

  • @pauldevlin9835
    @pauldevlin9835 Месяц назад +1

    It was wonderful to meet you on the Friday night in Port Hope. Safe travels

  • @a.jlondon9039
    @a.jlondon9039 Месяц назад +7

    I am so PROUD of my Scottish Ancestry. Need MORE of it in Canada. Happy Canada Day!

  • @jeremychambers7861
    @jeremychambers7861 27 дней назад

    Had the pleasure to meet you on the College street in Toronto! Totally awesome, and please keep up the great work!

  • @NatoBro
    @NatoBro Месяц назад +1

    Great video!! That's a game I have not attended yet. I'm sure my daughter and her band were there competing. As for the tug o war, you see that at some games here in Ontario. The big one is at the Glengarry Highland Games at Maxville. Members of the Canadian Army reserve units come and put on a big tug o war event. Great fun!

  • @corm7538
    @corm7538 День назад +1

    This year's St. Louis, Missouri, USA, Scottish Games & Cultural Festival have already happened but they happen every year in May. If you can Bruce, you should come to the 2025 or 2026 St. Louis Highlander Games, to see how the US does them. Ne Obliviscaris.

  • @lrdstrahd1
    @lrdstrahd1 27 дней назад

    Thanks for visiting Canada and the highland games here in Ontario. I am glad to see you found things familiar while discovering some new things unique to us. I haven't been to a games in years. But after watching this I may have to get off my butt and get out there again. Awesome vid.

  • @DL_Burns
    @DL_Burns Месяц назад +1

    Great reaction video, Bruce! For the Tug of War event, Cambridge, Ontario would be the place I always watched it. From the sounds of it, not all but some have this event.

  • @user-fj5qf7gt6n
    @user-fj5qf7gt6n Месяц назад +1

    Then there's the ScotfestBC and the BC Highland Games every year in Coquitlam (ko-Quit-lum, a coast Salish word for red fish up the river). East of Vancouver but still considered part of the metro area. I see there are 37 highland games and festivals in Canada!

  • @XENONPLASMA
    @XENONPLASMA 26 дней назад

    Used to grow up near Port Hope (in a small tiny hamlet of Bewdley) Port Hope is also famous for the "Float your fanny down the Ganny" every year!

  • @user-vw9gy4ze5l
    @user-vw9gy4ze5l Месяц назад +1

    Thank you! Childhood memories..

  • @stevenb427
    @stevenb427 Месяц назад +3

    "The young team" 😂🤣👍👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

  • @andrewbrown1258
    @andrewbrown1258 Месяц назад +1

    Was great meeting you Bruce!! Free the Broons o’ Bo’ness😉🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿