The Great Canadian Kilt Skate 2025

By Andy MacCulloch

We are looking forward to another great season this year! We have a tough act to follow with last year’s wide variety of different kilt skates held in rinks and outdoors all across the country. Warm weather might have spoiled several outdoor events, and a couple of communities took a year off but vowed to return this year.

The Great Canadian Kilt Skate capital as always was difficult to choose as the diversity and quality of events was high. Every Kilt Skate is a win! Ultimately Fergus stood out for their participation numbers, young and old, dancers and pipers, and Ceilidh band in the home team’s player’s bench!

Congratulations!

We are grateful to welcome new communities and just as eager to hear outside-of-the-box ideas. For example Whitney Brooks, membership Director at the Scottish Society of Ottawa launched her first and very successful Kilt Skate last year in Pembroke, Renfrew County, Ontario. This year she had another great idea to reach out to Renfrewshire, Scotland to have a joint Kilt skate with Renfrew County, Ontario.

A combined Kilt Skate event is now being planned for the weekend of February 8-10. We hope Kilt Skates in Ottawa and the Valley and across the country will participate. We plan to have a Great Canadian Kilt Skate weekend, with a nod of course to our Scottish and American friends.

The Ottawa Kilt Skate is also a great time, and now with Kilt Skates in Glengarry, Pembroke and Petawawa it looks like the Great Canadian Kilt Skate is growing wings in the Ottawa Valley.

We hope to see you this there. You don’t need to wear a kilt - just have a sense of fun and maybe a dash of tartan!