Mr. Burns would have loved it...and nobody needed a ride home.
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The Scottish Society of Ottawa (SSO) exists to connect, preserve, and promote Scottish culture and heritage regionally, nationally, and internationally through events, communications, and education. We currently have 6 vacant director positions on the board that we are looking to fill. Not Scottish? No problem – we welcome volunteers from any background with a keen interest in Scottish culture. We are inclusive, passionate, creative, and resilient and work with integrity. And we are a lot of fun!
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The fourth installment by Nancy Dupuis.
Wondering always about the past of my hometown and area and the many remnants of actual old woollen mills, I went in search of some prior history one afternoon – why did these settlers quickly establish such mills in our local area, I wondered?
Sir Alexander Fleming, born in 1881 was one of the greatest medical pioneers who won the Nobel Prize for Medicine, in 1945 for the discovery of Penicillin. Read more about Sir Alexander Fleming.
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”There are few residents of the Ramsay district whose family names are not to be found on the tombstones of the Auld Kirk Cemetery. They are all here, our relatives and our acquaintances; decrepit age and vigorous life, blooming youth and helpless infancy—all. Source: The Ottawa Journal, 20 January 1973, page 38”
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Having retired from the military after 35 years service as a member of the Royal Canadian Regiment, along with learning the bagpipes, I joined the Scottish Society of Ottawa and became the Volunteer Director (assigning marching orders and supervising seemed an obvious fit for an ex Infantry NCO/Officer). One other job I took on was looking after our supplies. This led me to discover that the SSO had received a donation of several copies How to be Scottish: A Guide for North Americans written by a certain retired Infantry Colonel from my Regiment, and whom I personally knew, Colonel Strome Galloway.
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Suffice to say all of these little communities in the county within a few short miles of each other had a number of businesses up and running fairly soon after the arrival of the folks on the ships. The now of today has brought about so many changes (over the last 200 years); they would not likely have ever been imagined by anyone back in 1820-21.
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See the latest news from Scottish-related societies and clans.
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