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Electric Scotland News
Electric Scotland Community
The Flag in the Wind
Historical Tales of the Wars of Scotland
Poems of George Alexander Rodger
William and Louisa Anderson
The History of Fettercairn
Memoirs of the Jacobites
R. B. Cunninghame Graham, Fighter for Justice
Songs of John Henderson
The Race of the Trough
Oor Ain Folk
Stories by Elizabeth Green
A Scot in China of Today
James Geikie (New Book)
History of Loch Kinnord (New Book)
Clan Wallace Society
Clan Leslie Society of New Zealand & Australia
The Significance of Community Past and Present
The Working Life of Christina McKelvie MSP
Politics of Burns
Chronicles of the Cape Fear River 1660 - 1916
The Dennistouns of Dennistoun
The constitution of Canada in its history and practical working
Electric Scotland News
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I noted this time last week that quite a few of you couldn't get onto our web sites. Our admin domain went down due to non payment. However we did pay on time but Network Solutions missed the payment and so we were removed from Domain Name Servers around the world. When we talked to them they were able to restore our domain within half an hour but by that time it was too late. DNS servers refresh their lists at varying times from 1 hour through to 24 hours and so that was the reason for us being unavilable for a while for some of you.
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I got in an interesting email from Clan Currie which I thought I'd copy here...
Dear Colleagues,
The Clan Currie (MacMhuirich) Society is pleased to announce our first annual symposium on the MacMhuirich Bardic Dynasty. Through this and future programs, we hope to contribute to the greater understanding and appreciation of our bardic ancestors.
Won't you kindly share our news with your members, colleagues and friends?
Calendar Announcement:
The Clan Currie Society is pleased to announce they will hold a special weekend gathering in Edinburgh, Scotland to commemorate the 600th anniversary of the Battle of Harlaw and Gaelic Bard Lachlan Mor MacMhuirich's epic war poem, the Harlaw Brosnachadh. The weekend commences with the dedication of a new memorial stone at the Scottish Writers' Museum on Friday, July 22 at 11:00 AM.
On Saturday, July 23, the Society will hold its first annual MacMhuirich Symposium led by Dr. Hugh Cheape of Sabhl Mor Ostaig. The panel of distinguished speakers includes, Dr. John Purser also of Sabhl Mor Ostaig, Dr. Donald William Stewart and Dr. Wilson McLeod of Edinburgh University, and Dr. David H. Caldwell of the National Museums of Scotland.
For a complete listing of events, visit www.clancurriegatherings.com. For additional information, contact the Society at clancurrie@mail.com.
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On June 11, 2011 the BBC Radio Scotland programme "Take the Floor" paid tribute to the late Bobby Brown of Canada who passed away on May 3rd at the age of 70. He was a leading light all over Canada, Scotland and the USA and founder and leader of the Scottish Accent band and musical director of The Cape Breton Symphony Fiddlers. Sadly, he was due in Scotland just before he died to be honoured by the National Association of Accordion and Fiddle Clubs. In this exerpt from the programme, host Robbie Shepherd is joined by musical colleagues and friends Kenny and Stuart Thomson in Glasgow, Colin Dewar in Shetland and friend and drummer Fred Collins in Canada. You can listen to this tribute at http://www.scottishstudies.com/940bobbybrowntribute.htm
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No video this week but may well do another when I have something worth communicating about :-)
ABOUT THE STORIES
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Electric Scotland Community
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This past weekend we did an upgrade to the lastest version of our software. However the upgrade also managed to kill all our mods which meant we had to do a lot of extra work to bring them back. We also noted that the wee country flags were now available for this latest release so added them back into your profile.
This coming weekend we'll be trying out a few extra mods that look to bring additional value to the community. However while they look good on paper they might not live up to the write up they get. The only real way to see if they are good is to install them and see how they work in real time. And so you might see a new mod going in but then back out if we decide it's not as good as we hoped.
Like this week we thought we'd try this SHOUT mod as a kind of chat facility but we quickly decided we didn't like it so it got removed.
We have managed to add our Google site search engine into the header which means when you use it you'll be searching not only our community but also electricscotland.com and .net and also scotsindependent.org
Our community can be viewed at http://www.electricscotland.org but of course if you are reading this you're already in it :-)
THE FLAG IN THE WIND
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This weeks issue is now available compiled by Jennifer Dunn in which she's telling us about the Westminster by-election. In the Synopsis there are a couple of good articles about new and improved rail routes in Scotland and also a meeting with the defense staff on the air bases in Scotland such as Lossiemoth and Leuchers.
You can get to the Flag at http://www.scotsindependent.org
Historical Tales of the Wars of Scotland
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And of the Border Raids, Forays and Conflicts by John Parker Lawson (1839). This is a new publication we're starting on which is in 4 volumes. We intend to post up 2 or 3 stories each week until complete.
This week we've added...
Execution of Lady Warriston
Scottish Invasion of Ireland
Patrick Earl of Orkney
You can read these at http://www.electricscotland.com/history/wars/
Poems of George Alexander Rodger
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Added another three poems, "Strathardle Ploughing Match", "To An Old Class Mate" and "The Loch O' The Lowes" which you can read at http://www.electricscotland.com/poetry/rodger.htm
William and Louisa Anderson
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A record of their Life and Work in Jamaica and Old Calabar by William Markwick (1897)
This week we've added the final two chapters...
Chapter 30
The Last Five Years of Active Service, 1884-1889
Chapter 31
The Closing Years
In chapter 30 we learn...
We have now reached Mr. Anderson's last term of active service in Calabar.
Mr. Anderson addressed the Missionary Meeting of the Synod in May 1884, on "Progress in Old Calabar." The Record says that "the fervid and pathetic words of Mr. Anderson, the veteran of Old Calabar, will long haunt the memories of all who heard them."
In the Record, August 1884, it is stated :—
Notwithstanding his advanced years and his lengthened services in a tropical climate, Mr. Anderson made it known some time ago that he was ready to return to Calabar. Since this was his strong desire, the Mission Board were constrained to yield to it, and he is now on his way to the land of his adoption.
A meeting, for the purpose of taking farewell with Mr. Anderson, was held in the Synod Hall, Edinburgh, on the evening of Sabbath, 29th June. A large audience assembled, and all present seemed touched with the peculiar interest and solemnity of the occasion. In his opening address, the Chairman stated that "Mr. Anderson was endeared to the Church, because he was identified with the Church's missionary work—work on which they were persuaded not only the progress but the vitality of the Church largely depended."
The Rev. Dr. Thomson, in name of the meeting and in name of the Mission Board and of the Church, addressed some parting words to Mr. Anderson. Dr. Thomson said: "My dear friend and brother, I have been requested to express, on the part of this farewell meeting, our parting benedictions. We bid you farewell with mingled feelings of regret and thankfulness. Of regret, because at your advanced years, and with your avowed intentions, we can scarcely indulge the hope of your returning again from Old Calabar, so that we partake in some measure of the feelings of the Ephesian elders when they parted with Paul on the shore at Miletus, and 'sorrowed most of all for the words that he spake that they should see his face no more'; and yet of thankfulness, because you have been spared to Old Calabar and to the Church and to us so long, and have been enabled to do such noble work for Christ and His kingdom
You can read the rest of this chapter at http://www.electricscotland.com/hist...derson3-30.htm
You can read all the chapters at http://www.electricscotland.com/hist...rson/index.htm
The History of Fettercairn
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A Parish in the County of Kincardine by Archd. Cowie Cameron (1899)
Have now added the final chapters to this book.
You can read these at http://www.electricscotland.com/hist...airn/index.htm
Memoirs of the Jacobites
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Of 1715 and 1745 by Mrs Thomson (1845) in 3 volumes. We intend to add a chapter a week until complete.
I've now added "Cameron of Lochiel".
The account starts...
The clan Cameron, from whom were descended the chieftains who took an active part in the Jacobite cause, had its seat in Lochaber, of which one of their ancestors had originally received a grant from Robert Bruce. They sprang, according to some accounts, from the same source as that of the clan Chattan, they became, nevertheless, in the course of the fourteenth century, an independent state. In a manuscript history of the clan Cameron, they have been traced so far back as to the year 404; and their origin in Scotland ascribed to the arrival of a younger son of the royal family of Denmark, the progenitors acquiring the name of Cameron from his crooked nose.
The clan consisted of three septs; but the family of Lochiel were acknowledged as the chief, and, according to the singular system of clanship, the Camerons freely gave up their wills to that of their head. The history of this family, whilst it shows by what decision of character and intrepidity of conduct this superiority was maintained, presents little else than a tissue of successive feuds between the clan and its neighbours, until, during the seventeenth century, the events of history brought forth qualities of still greater importance to distinguish the house of Lochiel. From henceforth the disputes with the clan Chattan, and the long-standing feuds with the Mackintoshes, merged into obscurity compared with the more stirring interests into which the chieftains were now, fatally for their prosperity, intermingled.
The celebrated Sir Ewan Dhu of Lochiel, one of the finest specimens of the Highland chieftains on record, had passed a long life in the service of the Stuart family, for whom, even as a boy, he had manifested a sort of inuitive affection. This cherished sentiment had repelled the efforts of his kinsman, the Marquis of Argyle, to mould his youthful mind to the precepts of the Puritans and Covenanters. Sir Ewan Dhu combined a commanding personal appearance with a suitable majesty of deportment, and with a shrewd, dauntless, honourable, generous mind. His very surname had an influence upon the good will of his superstitious and devoted followers. It denoted that he was dark, both in hair and complexion; and so many brave achievements had been performed by chieftains of the clan Cameron, who were of this complexion, that it had been foretold by gifted seers, that never should a fair Lochiel prove fortunate. Endowed with this singular hold upon the confidence of his people, Ewan Dhu eclipsed all his predecessors in the virtues of his heart and the strength of his understanding. His vigilance, his energy, and firmness were the qualities which had distinguished him as a military leader when, in the close of his days, the hopes and designs of the modern Jacobites began to engage the attention of the Highland chiefs.
You can read the rest of this long story at http://www.electricscotland.com/hist.../chapter05.htm
You can read the other chapters as we get them up at http://www.electricscotland.com/history/jacobites
R. B. Cunninghame Graham, Fighter for Justice
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An Appreciation of his Social and Religious Outlook by Ian M. Fraser (2002).
Added two more chapters to this account, "An Expanding Economy" and "The Civilising Mission".
You can get to this book at http://www.electricscotland.com/history/graham/
songs of John Henderson
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John has sent us in several of his songs this week...
Twa Fowks Fa Teuk Guid Tent O' Me
Woe Is Me!
WHich you can read at the foot of his page at http://www.electricscotland.com/poetry/doggerels.htm
John also sent in a wee tribute to Alex Atterson which you can read at http://www.electricscotland.com/poet...n/atterson.htm
The Race of the Trough
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This is a fabulous take where children who were orphaned were taken to a castle and fed through a trough being filled with food for them to eat. This take is explored here to see if there are any facts to substanciate the story. You can read this at http://www.electricscotland.com/hist...les/trough.htm
Oor Ain Folk
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Being memories of Manse Life in the Mearns and a Crack aboot old times by James Inglis (1894)
Here are the chapters we no whave up...
Chapter IX
Village Occupations—The Handloom Weavers—Merchants and Merchantiee—Various Types—Davit Elshender—A Story of the Egg Market—How Mrs. Paitterson turned the Tables—A Stingy Couple—Taking the Pledge—Strong Language—Story of Rev. Mr. Don—John Buchan's Prayer—A Banquet to the Laird—A Dear Denner—Effects of Mixing Drinks—Drinking Habits of the Time
Chapter X
My Mother's Folk—Montrose Skippers and the Baltic Trade— Presents from Abroad—A Partial Eclipse—The Homespun Era —Basket Mary—A Rigorous Caste System—'Tea-pairties'—Wullie D-----'s Hoose-warming—A Sma' Gless—A Heartless Drucken Husband—Painter Tarn—Anecdotes.
Chapter XI
Local Jealousies between County Towns—Curious Nicknames-Aspersions on Brechin—Origin of the Term 'Reed Lichties' —A Sapient Toon Cooncil—Blin' Hughie o' Dundee—The 'Spooters' o' Farfar—Celebrities—Singer Jeemer—Peter Reid and the famous ' Farfar Rock'—The Drawl of the Mearns— Primitive Social Manners—'No the Whisky but the Here's t'ye!'—The Handloom Industry—Weavers' Rhymes—Bailie F------ and the Auctioneer—A Vanishing Bottle—Drinking Orgies and Wild Wagers — Amusing Instance of Local Jealousy.
Chapter XII
Kirks—Ministers and Sermons—The Minister's Place in the Social and Intellectual Life of the People—Sermon Evolution—Tendency to become commonplace—A rather Exaggerated Parody —Impromptu on a 'Dreich' Preacher—Frank Self-criticism— The Brechin Beadle—The Collections and Plate at the Door— Candles—Peppermints—Anecdotes of Dr. Foote—An Outside View of the Subject—'Great Preevileges' o' the Auld Saints —Literalism of the old Bible Critics—Rendering Scripture History realistically — Humorous Instances — Aubraham's Bosom—Pawky Estimate of King David's Character—'The Scarlet Woman'.
Chapter XIII
The Old Gloomy Theology—Dawn of a Brighter Faith—The Two Schools illustrated by Anecdote—Growing Tolerance of Scottish Clergy—Instances of the Old Intolerance—Weariness of Church Services—Anecdote of Dr. Kidd—'Making the best of both Worlds'—'Willie White an* how he cheated the Craws'—Sleeping Acquaintance—Length of Prayers—'Ma ain Bairn'—'Lat the Jews alane'—Old John Aitken the Beadle —'Resist a' Improvements'—Some Beadle Stories—Anecdotes —An Eccentric Minister—Plain Criticism—Estimate of my Father's Preaching—Examples of 'Exotic' Scottish Humour.
Chapter XIV
The Sturdy, Self-reliant Spirit of the Older Generation contrasted with Modern Querulousness—An Unpromising Farm—Geordie Ferrier, the Minister's Man—Co-operative Farming Fifty Years ago—A Farmer-Minister—Geordie's Peculiarities—The Drucken Barber and the Minister—Wattie Dunlop and the Barber—My Father's Fairness—A Grannie's Benediction— My Father's Strong Common-sense—A Disconcerted Fop— Characteristics of my Father and Mother—A Standing Joke— My Mother's Deep Piety and Keen Wit—Her Belief in Direct Answer to Prayer—An Authentic Instance—Her Earnestness and Humour—Her Sense of Duty—Contempt of Meanness— Quaint Criticism on Preaching—Her Farewell Charge to me.
Chapter XV
A Hard-worked Minister—Vigorous of Mind and Body—Details of his Life and Character—Notes by my Brother George—The Manse Garden—Methodical Habits—Love of Children—Care for the Servants—Domestic Daily Routine—Fondness for a Joke—Some of his Stories—A Thievish Urchin—The Imperturbable Trespasser—Pat's Witty Answer—Habits in the Pulpit—His Favourites in History—Gentleness and Sweetness of Disposition—Private Devotion—Anecdotes of Dr. Cruden —Summary of the Old Minister's Character.
I might add that Gordon took the trouble to do some research and said... Reading the opening segment of chapter IV above, I came upon the name.. Rev. George Grimm, curious as I am,: crazy: I checked a little further and here he is...
Grimm, George (1833 - 1897)
and he goes on to give us an account of his life which you can read at http://www.electricscotland.com/hist.../chapter04.htm
You can get to this book at http://www.electricscotland.com/history/ainfolk/
Stories by Elizabeth Green
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Liz has sent us in a wee overview of her book, "But for Freedom" along with the first chapter of the book which you can read at http://www.electricscotland.com/kids/green02.htm
A Scot in China of Today
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By Ron Dow
Ron has sent in another article this week, Enping City Guangdong & (Ginshan hot Spring). In this article he's getting into the countryside and tells us of some interesting businesses that you can purchase for $1.00.
You can view this article at http://www.electricscotland.com/hist.../chapter04.htm
The other articles can be read at http://www.electricscotland.com/hist.../dow/index.htm
James Geikie
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The Man and The Geologist by Marion I Newbiggin and J S Flett (1917). A new book we're starting.
I am embarking on some biographies and autobiographies of significant Scots. This is in part to try and understand what made these people as good as they were. Is there some comon theme? As we read these we'll no doubt get an idea of the conditions they brought up under and how they made their way in the world.
Wikipedia gives an account of him...
James Geikie (23 August 1839–1915) was a Scottish geologist.
He was born in Edinburgh, the son of James Stuart Geikie and younger brother of Sir Archibald Geikie. He was educated at the Royal High School, Edinburgh and University of Edinburgh.
He served on the Geological Survey from 1862 until 1882, when be succeeded his brother as Murchison professor of geology and mineralogy at the University of Edinburgh. He took as his special subject of investigation the origin of surface-features, and the part played in their formation by glacial action. His views are embodied in his chief work, The Great Ice Age and its Relation to the Antiquity of Man (1874; 3rd ed., 1894). He was elected F.R.S. in 1875, his candidacy sitation reading " Author of "The Great Ice Age and its relation to the Antiquity of Man" "On the Changes of Climate during the Glacial Epoch" "On the Glacial Phenomena of the Outer Hebrides" (Quart Journ Geol Soc) and of various papers on Palaeozoic, Glacial and Post-Tertiary Geology in the Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh; the Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London; the Transactions of the North of England Institute of Mining and Mechanical Engineers; the Journal of the Iron and Steel Institute; the Transactions of the Glasgow Geological Society; and the Geological Magazine; District Surveyor on the Geological Survey in Scotland for years, during which time he has surveyed, and drawn many sections through, large areas in the Central and Southern districts of Scotland which he has described in the published "Explanations" issued by the Geological Survey."
Geikie became the leader of the school that upholds the all important action of land-ice, as against those geologists who assign chief importance to the work of pack ice and icebergs. Continuing this line of investigation in his Prehistoric Europe (1881), he maintained the hypothesis of five inter-Glacial periods in Great Britain, and argued that the palaeolithic deposits of the Pleistocene period were not post- but inter- or pre-Glacial. His Fragments of Earth Lore: Sketches and Addresses, Geological and Geographical (1893) and Earth Sculpture (1898) are mainly concerned with the same subject. His Outlines of Geology (1886), a standard textbook of its subject, reached its third edition in 1896; and in 1905 he published an important manual on structural and field geology.
In 1887 he displayed another side of his activity in a volume of Songs and Lyrics by H. Heine and other German Poets, done into English Verse. From 1888 he was honorary editor of the Scottish Geographical Magazine.
John Muir (1838-1914) named a glacier in Alaska after Geikie.
And so you can read this book at http://www.electricscotland.com/hist...ikie/index.htm
History of Loch Kinnord
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By Rev. J. G. Michie (1877)
Another new book we're starting.
It may be necessary to state, for the sake of those who are strangers on Deeside, that Loch Kinnord, with the history of which the following pages are concerned, is situated in the valley of the Dee, five miles beyond Aboyne, near the Dinnet Station of the Deeside Railway. In order to make the chapter on the geology of the district as brief as possible, places are indicated by simple reference to their local names, as, in the opinion of the author, the shortest and surest direction that could be given to a stranger who might wish to examine them minutely.
For a more detailed description of the archaeology of the district than could be given here, the antiquarian reader is referred to a paper on the subject read before the Society of Antiquaries, at their meeting in June, 1875, and to the work of Miss MacLaggan on the "Hill Forts and Stone Circles of Scotland."
In the Introductary chapter it starts...
Less than thirty years ago the upward traveller by the old Deeside coach, on crossing the burn of Dinnet, was apt to fancy himself as entering some vast wilderness of brown heath, where no human habitation had ever stood; and for the next three miles of his journey this impression was likely to be rather strengthened than dissipated by the aspect of the country on either hand. Generally, therefore, it was with a feeling of relief that he found himself wheeled down the somewhat dangerous descent of-the narrow old county road, where it swept in alarming promixity to dark Pol Phanterich, from the rocky buttress of Culblean to the door of the roadside hostelry of Cambus o' May. But though concealed from his view, he had all the while been skirting a locality as lovely and picturesque as the moor be bad crossed was barren and dreary.
At that time very few strangers were aware of the existence of Loch Kinnord, and fewer still knew anything of tde charms of its scenery; while the interesting remains of antiquity that abound in the vicinity were but little explored. "No one bad seen them who could understand their significance or read their story.
You can read this book at http://www.electricscotland.com/hist...nord/index.htm
Clan Wallace Society
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We got in a copy of there ummer 2011 newsletter which you can read at http://www.electricscotland.com/fami...etters/wallace
Clan Leslie Society of New Zealand & Australia
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We got in the July, August, September 2011 newsletter which you can read at http://www.electricscotland.com/fami...letters/leslie
The Significance of Community Past and Present
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From the Ballinafad Oral History Project.
It is the right time to return to our roots, the origin and inspiration of the Fallbrook campaign and the Ballinafad Oral Project. The possible destruction of the little Celt McKay farmhouse which preserved the McClure log cabin exemplified a profound lack of appreciation of the contribution of the pioneer community which continued the work of the Iroquois people in opening this land to human occupation. Through the opinions of heritage experts and historians, we have demonstrated here on www.electricscotland.com the significance of that contribution. With the courage and determination typical of pioneer communities, the families of Ballinafad created a synergetic force based on cooperation, concern for your neighbour and a sharing of human and material resources which ensured the survival of their common endeavour.
You can read the rest of this article at http://www.electricscotland.com/hist...allbrook59.htm
The Working Life of Christina McKelvie MSP
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We got in Christina's diary which you can read at http://www.electricscotland.com/hist...vie/110610.htm
I also got an email saying she hopes to send us another entry tomorrow.
Politics of Burns
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An interesting article I picked up from the Scottish Historical Review which you can view at http://www.electricscotland.com/burns/politics.htm
Chronicles of the Cape Fear River 1660 - 1916
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By James Sprunt
This mammoth volume on Cape Fear in North Carolina is of more value to the local historian than to the general reader. It is an exhaustive account from the foundation of the colony to the State in recent times. To us the most interesting chapter is one by David Macrae, dealing with a visit to the Highland settlers in the 'Scotch County,' North Carolina having been a place of Highland emigration after Glencoe and the '45. Flora Macdonald joined this group in 1775 and was received with great honour and Highland music at Wilmington. We get pleasant glimpses of MacRaes and of the Highland Jacobite settlers who became British loyalists in America. [This taken from the Scottish Historical Review]
I've ocr'd in the Preface and provided a link to download this book in pdf format. You can get to this at http://www.electricscotland.com/hist...a/capefear.htm
I might add the pages on Flora MacDonald and the Scotch Country starts at Page 95.
The Dennistouns of Dennistoun
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Found an article about this family which you can read at the foot of their clan history page at http://www.electricscotland.com/webc...nnistoun2.html
The constitution of Canada in its history and practical working
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By William Renwick Riddell, LL.D.
THE aim of this book is to give a popular account of its subject and it succeeds. It commences with a lucid exposition of the system under which French Canada was governed, and we find this was wholly feudal, arbitrary, and military. British rule was introduced after the conquest of 1759, and English criminal law established. But the former was much modified to give a place to the French Canadians, and in 1774 the 'Quebec Act ' was passed, which for a time at least conciliated that population.
Canada was divided in 1791, but, being subject to an oligarchy, rebellions broke out in both provinces. In 1840 following on Lord Durham's famous Report, the two provinces were united and Responsible Government was granted and a Constitution given. The alterations, improvements and additions to this, made necessary by the changes of circumstances and enormous increase of territory, are well recounted until we come to the present 'nine provinces, all of which have (generally speaking) the same legislative rights and powers.' It is interesting to read the chapters on the written constitution and its practical working, and to notice the fact that 'No province with only one Chamber has ever desired two ; while at least one of those with two has groaned under the imposition.'
You can read this book at http://www.electricscotland.com/hist...nstitution.htm
And finally...
Stamp of approval
Friends of the late James D Robertson of Glasgow School of Art are setting up a webpage and a Facebook page to celebrate his artwork and inform folk of any exhibitions of his paintings taking place. This in itself would have amused Jimmy, who was well known as a technophobe.
When his daughter Katie once offered to do all his correspondence by e-mail, Jimmy thanked her profusely – and said he would pay for the stamps.
And that's it for now and hope you all have a good weekend.
Alastair
http://www.electricscotland.com
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Electric Scotland News
Electric Scotland Community
The Flag in the Wind
Historical Tales of the Wars of Scotland
Poems of George Alexander Rodger
William and Louisa Anderson
The History of Fettercairn
Memoirs of the Jacobites
R. B. Cunninghame Graham, Fighter for Justice
Songs of John Henderson
The Race of the Trough
Oor Ain Folk
Stories by Elizabeth Green
A Scot in China of Today
James Geikie (New Book)
History of Loch Kinnord (New Book)
Clan Wallace Society
Clan Leslie Society of New Zealand & Australia
The Significance of Community Past and Present
The Working Life of Christina McKelvie MSP
Politics of Burns
Chronicles of the Cape Fear River 1660 - 1916
The Dennistouns of Dennistoun
The constitution of Canada in its history and practical working
Electric Scotland News
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I noted this time last week that quite a few of you couldn't get onto our web sites. Our admin domain went down due to non payment. However we did pay on time but Network Solutions missed the payment and so we were removed from Domain Name Servers around the world. When we talked to them they were able to restore our domain within half an hour but by that time it was too late. DNS servers refresh their lists at varying times from 1 hour through to 24 hours and so that was the reason for us being unavilable for a while for some of you.
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I got in an interesting email from Clan Currie which I thought I'd copy here...
Dear Colleagues,
The Clan Currie (MacMhuirich) Society is pleased to announce our first annual symposium on the MacMhuirich Bardic Dynasty. Through this and future programs, we hope to contribute to the greater understanding and appreciation of our bardic ancestors.
Won't you kindly share our news with your members, colleagues and friends?
Calendar Announcement:
The Clan Currie Society is pleased to announce they will hold a special weekend gathering in Edinburgh, Scotland to commemorate the 600th anniversary of the Battle of Harlaw and Gaelic Bard Lachlan Mor MacMhuirich's epic war poem, the Harlaw Brosnachadh. The weekend commences with the dedication of a new memorial stone at the Scottish Writers' Museum on Friday, July 22 at 11:00 AM.
On Saturday, July 23, the Society will hold its first annual MacMhuirich Symposium led by Dr. Hugh Cheape of Sabhl Mor Ostaig. The panel of distinguished speakers includes, Dr. John Purser also of Sabhl Mor Ostaig, Dr. Donald William Stewart and Dr. Wilson McLeod of Edinburgh University, and Dr. David H. Caldwell of the National Museums of Scotland.
For a complete listing of events, visit www.clancurriegatherings.com. For additional information, contact the Society at clancurrie@mail.com.
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On June 11, 2011 the BBC Radio Scotland programme "Take the Floor" paid tribute to the late Bobby Brown of Canada who passed away on May 3rd at the age of 70. He was a leading light all over Canada, Scotland and the USA and founder and leader of the Scottish Accent band and musical director of The Cape Breton Symphony Fiddlers. Sadly, he was due in Scotland just before he died to be honoured by the National Association of Accordion and Fiddle Clubs. In this exerpt from the programme, host Robbie Shepherd is joined by musical colleagues and friends Kenny and Stuart Thomson in Glasgow, Colin Dewar in Shetland and friend and drummer Fred Collins in Canada. You can listen to this tribute at http://www.scottishstudies.com/940bobbybrowntribute.htm
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No video this week but may well do another when I have something worth communicating about :-)
ABOUT THE STORIES
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Some of the stories in here are just parts of a larger story so do check out the site for the full versions. You can always find the link in our "What's New" section in our site menu and at http://www.electricscotland.com/rss/whatsnew.php
Electric Scotland Community
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This past weekend we did an upgrade to the lastest version of our software. However the upgrade also managed to kill all our mods which meant we had to do a lot of extra work to bring them back. We also noted that the wee country flags were now available for this latest release so added them back into your profile.
This coming weekend we'll be trying out a few extra mods that look to bring additional value to the community. However while they look good on paper they might not live up to the write up they get. The only real way to see if they are good is to install them and see how they work in real time. And so you might see a new mod going in but then back out if we decide it's not as good as we hoped.
Like this week we thought we'd try this SHOUT mod as a kind of chat facility but we quickly decided we didn't like it so it got removed.
We have managed to add our Google site search engine into the header which means when you use it you'll be searching not only our community but also electricscotland.com and .net and also scotsindependent.org
Our community can be viewed at http://www.electricscotland.org but of course if you are reading this you're already in it :-)
THE FLAG IN THE WIND
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This weeks issue is now available compiled by Jennifer Dunn in which she's telling us about the Westminster by-election. In the Synopsis there are a couple of good articles about new and improved rail routes in Scotland and also a meeting with the defense staff on the air bases in Scotland such as Lossiemoth and Leuchers.
You can get to the Flag at http://www.scotsindependent.org
Historical Tales of the Wars of Scotland
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And of the Border Raids, Forays and Conflicts by John Parker Lawson (1839). This is a new publication we're starting on which is in 4 volumes. We intend to post up 2 or 3 stories each week until complete.
This week we've added...
Execution of Lady Warriston
Scottish Invasion of Ireland
Patrick Earl of Orkney
You can read these at http://www.electricscotland.com/history/wars/
Poems of George Alexander Rodger
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Added another three poems, "Strathardle Ploughing Match", "To An Old Class Mate" and "The Loch O' The Lowes" which you can read at http://www.electricscotland.com/poetry/rodger.htm
William and Louisa Anderson
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A record of their Life and Work in Jamaica and Old Calabar by William Markwick (1897)
This week we've added the final two chapters...
Chapter 30
The Last Five Years of Active Service, 1884-1889
Chapter 31
The Closing Years
In chapter 30 we learn...
We have now reached Mr. Anderson's last term of active service in Calabar.
Mr. Anderson addressed the Missionary Meeting of the Synod in May 1884, on "Progress in Old Calabar." The Record says that "the fervid and pathetic words of Mr. Anderson, the veteran of Old Calabar, will long haunt the memories of all who heard them."
In the Record, August 1884, it is stated :—
Notwithstanding his advanced years and his lengthened services in a tropical climate, Mr. Anderson made it known some time ago that he was ready to return to Calabar. Since this was his strong desire, the Mission Board were constrained to yield to it, and he is now on his way to the land of his adoption.
A meeting, for the purpose of taking farewell with Mr. Anderson, was held in the Synod Hall, Edinburgh, on the evening of Sabbath, 29th June. A large audience assembled, and all present seemed touched with the peculiar interest and solemnity of the occasion. In his opening address, the Chairman stated that "Mr. Anderson was endeared to the Church, because he was identified with the Church's missionary work—work on which they were persuaded not only the progress but the vitality of the Church largely depended."
The Rev. Dr. Thomson, in name of the meeting and in name of the Mission Board and of the Church, addressed some parting words to Mr. Anderson. Dr. Thomson said: "My dear friend and brother, I have been requested to express, on the part of this farewell meeting, our parting benedictions. We bid you farewell with mingled feelings of regret and thankfulness. Of regret, because at your advanced years, and with your avowed intentions, we can scarcely indulge the hope of your returning again from Old Calabar, so that we partake in some measure of the feelings of the Ephesian elders when they parted with Paul on the shore at Miletus, and 'sorrowed most of all for the words that he spake that they should see his face no more'; and yet of thankfulness, because you have been spared to Old Calabar and to the Church and to us so long, and have been enabled to do such noble work for Christ and His kingdom
You can read the rest of this chapter at http://www.electricscotland.com/hist...derson3-30.htm
You can read all the chapters at http://www.electricscotland.com/hist...rson/index.htm
The History of Fettercairn
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A Parish in the County of Kincardine by Archd. Cowie Cameron (1899)
Have now added the final chapters to this book.
You can read these at http://www.electricscotland.com/hist...airn/index.htm
Memoirs of the Jacobites
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Of 1715 and 1745 by Mrs Thomson (1845) in 3 volumes. We intend to add a chapter a week until complete.
I've now added "Cameron of Lochiel".
The account starts...
The clan Cameron, from whom were descended the chieftains who took an active part in the Jacobite cause, had its seat in Lochaber, of which one of their ancestors had originally received a grant from Robert Bruce. They sprang, according to some accounts, from the same source as that of the clan Chattan, they became, nevertheless, in the course of the fourteenth century, an independent state. In a manuscript history of the clan Cameron, they have been traced so far back as to the year 404; and their origin in Scotland ascribed to the arrival of a younger son of the royal family of Denmark, the progenitors acquiring the name of Cameron from his crooked nose.
The clan consisted of three septs; but the family of Lochiel were acknowledged as the chief, and, according to the singular system of clanship, the Camerons freely gave up their wills to that of their head. The history of this family, whilst it shows by what decision of character and intrepidity of conduct this superiority was maintained, presents little else than a tissue of successive feuds between the clan and its neighbours, until, during the seventeenth century, the events of history brought forth qualities of still greater importance to distinguish the house of Lochiel. From henceforth the disputes with the clan Chattan, and the long-standing feuds with the Mackintoshes, merged into obscurity compared with the more stirring interests into which the chieftains were now, fatally for their prosperity, intermingled.
The celebrated Sir Ewan Dhu of Lochiel, one of the finest specimens of the Highland chieftains on record, had passed a long life in the service of the Stuart family, for whom, even as a boy, he had manifested a sort of inuitive affection. This cherished sentiment had repelled the efforts of his kinsman, the Marquis of Argyle, to mould his youthful mind to the precepts of the Puritans and Covenanters. Sir Ewan Dhu combined a commanding personal appearance with a suitable majesty of deportment, and with a shrewd, dauntless, honourable, generous mind. His very surname had an influence upon the good will of his superstitious and devoted followers. It denoted that he was dark, both in hair and complexion; and so many brave achievements had been performed by chieftains of the clan Cameron, who were of this complexion, that it had been foretold by gifted seers, that never should a fair Lochiel prove fortunate. Endowed with this singular hold upon the confidence of his people, Ewan Dhu eclipsed all his predecessors in the virtues of his heart and the strength of his understanding. His vigilance, his energy, and firmness were the qualities which had distinguished him as a military leader when, in the close of his days, the hopes and designs of the modern Jacobites began to engage the attention of the Highland chiefs.
You can read the rest of this long story at http://www.electricscotland.com/hist.../chapter05.htm
You can read the other chapters as we get them up at http://www.electricscotland.com/history/jacobites
R. B. Cunninghame Graham, Fighter for Justice
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An Appreciation of his Social and Religious Outlook by Ian M. Fraser (2002).
Added two more chapters to this account, "An Expanding Economy" and "The Civilising Mission".
You can get to this book at http://www.electricscotland.com/history/graham/
songs of John Henderson
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John has sent us in several of his songs this week...
Twa Fowks Fa Teuk Guid Tent O' Me
Woe Is Me!
WHich you can read at the foot of his page at http://www.electricscotland.com/poetry/doggerels.htm
John also sent in a wee tribute to Alex Atterson which you can read at http://www.electricscotland.com/poet...n/atterson.htm
The Race of the Trough
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This is a fabulous take where children who were orphaned were taken to a castle and fed through a trough being filled with food for them to eat. This take is explored here to see if there are any facts to substanciate the story. You can read this at http://www.electricscotland.com/hist...les/trough.htm
Oor Ain Folk
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Being memories of Manse Life in the Mearns and a Crack aboot old times by James Inglis (1894)
Here are the chapters we no whave up...
Chapter IX
Village Occupations—The Handloom Weavers—Merchants and Merchantiee—Various Types—Davit Elshender—A Story of the Egg Market—How Mrs. Paitterson turned the Tables—A Stingy Couple—Taking the Pledge—Strong Language—Story of Rev. Mr. Don—John Buchan's Prayer—A Banquet to the Laird—A Dear Denner—Effects of Mixing Drinks—Drinking Habits of the Time
Chapter X
My Mother's Folk—Montrose Skippers and the Baltic Trade— Presents from Abroad—A Partial Eclipse—The Homespun Era —Basket Mary—A Rigorous Caste System—'Tea-pairties'—Wullie D-----'s Hoose-warming—A Sma' Gless—A Heartless Drucken Husband—Painter Tarn—Anecdotes.
Chapter XI
Local Jealousies between County Towns—Curious Nicknames-Aspersions on Brechin—Origin of the Term 'Reed Lichties' —A Sapient Toon Cooncil—Blin' Hughie o' Dundee—The 'Spooters' o' Farfar—Celebrities—Singer Jeemer—Peter Reid and the famous ' Farfar Rock'—The Drawl of the Mearns— Primitive Social Manners—'No the Whisky but the Here's t'ye!'—The Handloom Industry—Weavers' Rhymes—Bailie F------ and the Auctioneer—A Vanishing Bottle—Drinking Orgies and Wild Wagers — Amusing Instance of Local Jealousy.
Chapter XII
Kirks—Ministers and Sermons—The Minister's Place in the Social and Intellectual Life of the People—Sermon Evolution—Tendency to become commonplace—A rather Exaggerated Parody —Impromptu on a 'Dreich' Preacher—Frank Self-criticism— The Brechin Beadle—The Collections and Plate at the Door— Candles—Peppermints—Anecdotes of Dr. Foote—An Outside View of the Subject—'Great Preevileges' o' the Auld Saints —Literalism of the old Bible Critics—Rendering Scripture History realistically — Humorous Instances — Aubraham's Bosom—Pawky Estimate of King David's Character—'The Scarlet Woman'.
Chapter XIII
The Old Gloomy Theology—Dawn of a Brighter Faith—The Two Schools illustrated by Anecdote—Growing Tolerance of Scottish Clergy—Instances of the Old Intolerance—Weariness of Church Services—Anecdote of Dr. Kidd—'Making the best of both Worlds'—'Willie White an* how he cheated the Craws'—Sleeping Acquaintance—Length of Prayers—'Ma ain Bairn'—'Lat the Jews alane'—Old John Aitken the Beadle —'Resist a' Improvements'—Some Beadle Stories—Anecdotes —An Eccentric Minister—Plain Criticism—Estimate of my Father's Preaching—Examples of 'Exotic' Scottish Humour.
Chapter XIV
The Sturdy, Self-reliant Spirit of the Older Generation contrasted with Modern Querulousness—An Unpromising Farm—Geordie Ferrier, the Minister's Man—Co-operative Farming Fifty Years ago—A Farmer-Minister—Geordie's Peculiarities—The Drucken Barber and the Minister—Wattie Dunlop and the Barber—My Father's Fairness—A Grannie's Benediction— My Father's Strong Common-sense—A Disconcerted Fop— Characteristics of my Father and Mother—A Standing Joke— My Mother's Deep Piety and Keen Wit—Her Belief in Direct Answer to Prayer—An Authentic Instance—Her Earnestness and Humour—Her Sense of Duty—Contempt of Meanness— Quaint Criticism on Preaching—Her Farewell Charge to me.
Chapter XV
A Hard-worked Minister—Vigorous of Mind and Body—Details of his Life and Character—Notes by my Brother George—The Manse Garden—Methodical Habits—Love of Children—Care for the Servants—Domestic Daily Routine—Fondness for a Joke—Some of his Stories—A Thievish Urchin—The Imperturbable Trespasser—Pat's Witty Answer—Habits in the Pulpit—His Favourites in History—Gentleness and Sweetness of Disposition—Private Devotion—Anecdotes of Dr. Cruden —Summary of the Old Minister's Character.
I might add that Gordon took the trouble to do some research and said... Reading the opening segment of chapter IV above, I came upon the name.. Rev. George Grimm, curious as I am,: crazy: I checked a little further and here he is...
Grimm, George (1833 - 1897)
and he goes on to give us an account of his life which you can read at http://www.electricscotland.com/hist.../chapter04.htm
You can get to this book at http://www.electricscotland.com/history/ainfolk/
Stories by Elizabeth Green
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Liz has sent us in a wee overview of her book, "But for Freedom" along with the first chapter of the book which you can read at http://www.electricscotland.com/kids/green02.htm
A Scot in China of Today
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By Ron Dow
Ron has sent in another article this week, Enping City Guangdong & (Ginshan hot Spring). In this article he's getting into the countryside and tells us of some interesting businesses that you can purchase for $1.00.
You can view this article at http://www.electricscotland.com/hist.../chapter04.htm
The other articles can be read at http://www.electricscotland.com/hist.../dow/index.htm
James Geikie
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The Man and The Geologist by Marion I Newbiggin and J S Flett (1917). A new book we're starting.
I am embarking on some biographies and autobiographies of significant Scots. This is in part to try and understand what made these people as good as they were. Is there some comon theme? As we read these we'll no doubt get an idea of the conditions they brought up under and how they made their way in the world.
Wikipedia gives an account of him...
James Geikie (23 August 1839–1915) was a Scottish geologist.
He was born in Edinburgh, the son of James Stuart Geikie and younger brother of Sir Archibald Geikie. He was educated at the Royal High School, Edinburgh and University of Edinburgh.
He served on the Geological Survey from 1862 until 1882, when be succeeded his brother as Murchison professor of geology and mineralogy at the University of Edinburgh. He took as his special subject of investigation the origin of surface-features, and the part played in their formation by glacial action. His views are embodied in his chief work, The Great Ice Age and its Relation to the Antiquity of Man (1874; 3rd ed., 1894). He was elected F.R.S. in 1875, his candidacy sitation reading " Author of "The Great Ice Age and its relation to the Antiquity of Man" "On the Changes of Climate during the Glacial Epoch" "On the Glacial Phenomena of the Outer Hebrides" (Quart Journ Geol Soc) and of various papers on Palaeozoic, Glacial and Post-Tertiary Geology in the Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh; the Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London; the Transactions of the North of England Institute of Mining and Mechanical Engineers; the Journal of the Iron and Steel Institute; the Transactions of the Glasgow Geological Society; and the Geological Magazine; District Surveyor on the Geological Survey in Scotland for years, during which time he has surveyed, and drawn many sections through, large areas in the Central and Southern districts of Scotland which he has described in the published "Explanations" issued by the Geological Survey."
Geikie became the leader of the school that upholds the all important action of land-ice, as against those geologists who assign chief importance to the work of pack ice and icebergs. Continuing this line of investigation in his Prehistoric Europe (1881), he maintained the hypothesis of five inter-Glacial periods in Great Britain, and argued that the palaeolithic deposits of the Pleistocene period were not post- but inter- or pre-Glacial. His Fragments of Earth Lore: Sketches and Addresses, Geological and Geographical (1893) and Earth Sculpture (1898) are mainly concerned with the same subject. His Outlines of Geology (1886), a standard textbook of its subject, reached its third edition in 1896; and in 1905 he published an important manual on structural and field geology.
In 1887 he displayed another side of his activity in a volume of Songs and Lyrics by H. Heine and other German Poets, done into English Verse. From 1888 he was honorary editor of the Scottish Geographical Magazine.
John Muir (1838-1914) named a glacier in Alaska after Geikie.
And so you can read this book at http://www.electricscotland.com/hist...ikie/index.htm
History of Loch Kinnord
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By Rev. J. G. Michie (1877)
Another new book we're starting.
It may be necessary to state, for the sake of those who are strangers on Deeside, that Loch Kinnord, with the history of which the following pages are concerned, is situated in the valley of the Dee, five miles beyond Aboyne, near the Dinnet Station of the Deeside Railway. In order to make the chapter on the geology of the district as brief as possible, places are indicated by simple reference to their local names, as, in the opinion of the author, the shortest and surest direction that could be given to a stranger who might wish to examine them minutely.
For a more detailed description of the archaeology of the district than could be given here, the antiquarian reader is referred to a paper on the subject read before the Society of Antiquaries, at their meeting in June, 1875, and to the work of Miss MacLaggan on the "Hill Forts and Stone Circles of Scotland."
In the Introductary chapter it starts...
Less than thirty years ago the upward traveller by the old Deeside coach, on crossing the burn of Dinnet, was apt to fancy himself as entering some vast wilderness of brown heath, where no human habitation had ever stood; and for the next three miles of his journey this impression was likely to be rather strengthened than dissipated by the aspect of the country on either hand. Generally, therefore, it was with a feeling of relief that he found himself wheeled down the somewhat dangerous descent of-the narrow old county road, where it swept in alarming promixity to dark Pol Phanterich, from the rocky buttress of Culblean to the door of the roadside hostelry of Cambus o' May. But though concealed from his view, he had all the while been skirting a locality as lovely and picturesque as the moor be bad crossed was barren and dreary.
At that time very few strangers were aware of the existence of Loch Kinnord, and fewer still knew anything of tde charms of its scenery; while the interesting remains of antiquity that abound in the vicinity were but little explored. "No one bad seen them who could understand their significance or read their story.
You can read this book at http://www.electricscotland.com/hist...nord/index.htm
Clan Wallace Society
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We got in a copy of there ummer 2011 newsletter which you can read at http://www.electricscotland.com/fami...etters/wallace
Clan Leslie Society of New Zealand & Australia
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We got in the July, August, September 2011 newsletter which you can read at http://www.electricscotland.com/fami...letters/leslie
The Significance of Community Past and Present
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From the Ballinafad Oral History Project.
It is the right time to return to our roots, the origin and inspiration of the Fallbrook campaign and the Ballinafad Oral Project. The possible destruction of the little Celt McKay farmhouse which preserved the McClure log cabin exemplified a profound lack of appreciation of the contribution of the pioneer community which continued the work of the Iroquois people in opening this land to human occupation. Through the opinions of heritage experts and historians, we have demonstrated here on www.electricscotland.com the significance of that contribution. With the courage and determination typical of pioneer communities, the families of Ballinafad created a synergetic force based on cooperation, concern for your neighbour and a sharing of human and material resources which ensured the survival of their common endeavour.
You can read the rest of this article at http://www.electricscotland.com/hist...allbrook59.htm
The Working Life of Christina McKelvie MSP
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We got in Christina's diary which you can read at http://www.electricscotland.com/hist...vie/110610.htm
I also got an email saying she hopes to send us another entry tomorrow.
Politics of Burns
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An interesting article I picked up from the Scottish Historical Review which you can view at http://www.electricscotland.com/burns/politics.htm
Chronicles of the Cape Fear River 1660 - 1916
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By James Sprunt
This mammoth volume on Cape Fear in North Carolina is of more value to the local historian than to the general reader. It is an exhaustive account from the foundation of the colony to the State in recent times. To us the most interesting chapter is one by David Macrae, dealing with a visit to the Highland settlers in the 'Scotch County,' North Carolina having been a place of Highland emigration after Glencoe and the '45. Flora Macdonald joined this group in 1775 and was received with great honour and Highland music at Wilmington. We get pleasant glimpses of MacRaes and of the Highland Jacobite settlers who became British loyalists in America. [This taken from the Scottish Historical Review]
I've ocr'd in the Preface and provided a link to download this book in pdf format. You can get to this at http://www.electricscotland.com/hist...a/capefear.htm
I might add the pages on Flora MacDonald and the Scotch Country starts at Page 95.
The Dennistouns of Dennistoun
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Found an article about this family which you can read at the foot of their clan history page at http://www.electricscotland.com/webc...nnistoun2.html
The constitution of Canada in its history and practical working
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By William Renwick Riddell, LL.D.
THE aim of this book is to give a popular account of its subject and it succeeds. It commences with a lucid exposition of the system under which French Canada was governed, and we find this was wholly feudal, arbitrary, and military. British rule was introduced after the conquest of 1759, and English criminal law established. But the former was much modified to give a place to the French Canadians, and in 1774 the 'Quebec Act ' was passed, which for a time at least conciliated that population.
Canada was divided in 1791, but, being subject to an oligarchy, rebellions broke out in both provinces. In 1840 following on Lord Durham's famous Report, the two provinces were united and Responsible Government was granted and a Constitution given. The alterations, improvements and additions to this, made necessary by the changes of circumstances and enormous increase of territory, are well recounted until we come to the present 'nine provinces, all of which have (generally speaking) the same legislative rights and powers.' It is interesting to read the chapters on the written constitution and its practical working, and to notice the fact that 'No province with only one Chamber has ever desired two ; while at least one of those with two has groaned under the imposition.'
You can read this book at http://www.electricscotland.com/hist...nstitution.htm
And finally...
Stamp of approval
Friends of the late James D Robertson of Glasgow School of Art are setting up a webpage and a Facebook page to celebrate his artwork and inform folk of any exhibitions of his paintings taking place. This in itself would have amused Jimmy, who was well known as a technophobe.
When his daughter Katie once offered to do all his correspondence by e-mail, Jimmy thanked her profusely – and said he would pay for the stamps.
And that's it for now and hope you all have a good weekend.
Alastair
http://www.electricscotland.com
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