Category «Colony Stories»

New CBC video on the Scotch Colony

Beautiful video of the Colony including interviews with Darlene Morton and Garth Farquhar. Here’s a link to this video: http://www.cbc.ca/player/play/1684887619728/The video may not play outside Canada. Here is the link to the accompanying CBC article, with beautiful photos, about the Colony and our Burns Celebration: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/kincardine-scottish-robbie-burns-1.5436500 Also, here is a companion radio story: https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-25-information-morning-fredericton/clip/15757187-celebrating-scottish-heritagey. Stories …

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Letter from William Duncan, Stonehaven Journal – Thursday 10 July 1873

Letters from New Kincardineshire, Victoria County, New Brunswick to Scotland NEW KINCARDINESHIRE COLONY. The following letter from a working man to a fellow workman in Stonehaven shows the philosophical spirit with which some persons endure the greatest hardships. It bears a marked contrast when compared with the grumbling epistles of colonists in much easier circumstances:— …

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Colony Featured on Scotland TV documentary

Scotland TV’s The People’s History Show; Episode: The Scots who made Canada “Host David Farrell presents a special episode exploring Scotland’s links to Canada, as the country celebrates its 150th birthday.” On September 27, 2017, David and Ian Hendry (director/camera) interviewed several Scotch Colony folks  and videoed scenes at a Burn’s Hall Music Night and …

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“Like” the new Facebook Page about Upper Kintore

Garth Farquhar has created a new Facebook Page and is posting “A collection of stories and pictures of Upper Kintore New Brunswick. Upper Kintore was settled in 1874 by Scottish immigrants who came over on the Sidonian” Please “Like” his page: https://www.facebook.com/UpperKintore/ Garth has also added many points of interest on our Scotch Colony Google …

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The Scotch Colony and Burns Night 1919

Published in the Presque Isle, Maine newspaper, Star Herald, Feb. 13, 1919 and is signed at the end of the article by W. L. Duncan Many years ago, to be exact, in 1873, a Scotch sea captain whose ship plied between Scotland and St. John, on occasion of a voyage when he had some time …

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from Rev. David Shearman

Begin forwarded message: From: David Shearman <shearman@sympatico.ca> Subject: What A Delight! Date: August 28, 2013 7:27:28 AM EDT To: <info@ScotchColony.ca> Reply-To: <shearman@sympatico.ca> What an absolute delight to stumble on the Scotch Colony web site! I wish I had found it earlier. You may remember me as part of the ministry team that served the Andover-Kincardine …

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