- last updated 02 Oct 2008 -
Society
Calendar - 2008
Sat 22 Nov - Annual Dinner
& Gala - Crowne Plaza Hotel
- bar 6.30 pm Dinner (3 course meal with
haggis) 7 pm Gala 9 pm
Tickets $87.50 - contact Hugh Reekie
Guest of Honour - Robert Campbell -
Scot of the Year - John de Chastelain
Heather Mist Pipe Band, Kanata -- Fiona Champagne Highland Dancers
pub nights are an informal way of
meeting up - for both old and new members - 6.30 for 7 pm supper
on - 14 Oct, 03 Nov 2008. Ask for details
to
join or renew - see
our
special page
see
a
Chief Guest
Listing at Annual Gala Dinners -
President's list
- 1935 -
'73 1846
- 1935
2006
Scots Heritage Tour -
2007
some
past events:
Sat 7 June 2008 - a
Saturday
Scottish Heritage Tour of Williamstown and
area
Sunday
17 Feb 2008:
-
Lecture:
The Hon Flora
MacDonald:
"The
Scots in Glengarry & Cape Breton:
Scots settlers on Glengarry &
Cape Breton - Some comparisons
Cdn Library & Archives Auditorium, 2.30pm - free - Scots tea
afterwards
Sun 17 Feb 2008 -
lecture:
Hon Flora MacDonald -
See
separate page.
Sun 16 March -
Scots
illustrated talk and tea - The Old
Forge
Sat 05 April - Scots Cooking Demonstration - 10.30 am
Fri 11 April - AGM & Dinner - Kristy's Restaurant
in 2007:
Sat 10 Nov - Annual Dinner & Gala - Crowne Plaza Hotel,
Panorama Room - 125 attended
A
lecture with Scottish tea:
Sunday, 28th October 2007, 2.30pm,
Room 156 - Canadian Library &
Archives, Wellington St. - 50 attended
The speaker - John Young - The
title:"John Buchan, Presbyterian
Cavalier".
John Young mentions that John
Buchan had strong feelings and opinions about volunteerism; this will
be mentioned in the presentation, along with other aspects on the
life and times of this great man. John Young is a recently-retired
senior civil servant who was born and educated in Scotland.
Sat 23 June 2007 - Spring
Scots Heritage Tour -
Upper
Ottawa & Pontiac - 38
attended
March 24
2007
Annual Sugar Bush
Outing
- arranged by Ian & Lucie
Campbell. Sand Road Sugar Camp - RR1 Moose Creek
Saturday 20 Jan 2007 - Annual Burns Supper, Cedar Hill Golf Club - Buffet Supper with Haggis. A traditional evening, with the Haggis piped in.- 85 attended
Sun 9th April 2006 - Tartan
Day Dinner & Annual General Meeting -
Amberwood Golf Club
26 attended -
Saturday 1st April
2006 -- Scots Cooking Session
- Knox Church 10.30am
-
Quebec Sugar Bush outing - March
25, 2006 24 attended
-
Saturday 28 Jan 2006 - Annual
Burns Supper - Cedar Hill Golf Club - Details:
Our Burns Supper - Cedarhill Golf
& Country Club, Cedarhill Drive off Cedarview Road. Don MacLean
will propose "The Immortal Memory". Don is from Stirling and worked
at Prestwick Airport for many years. Alan James (who recited Holy
Willie's Prayer last year) will propose a "Toast to the Lassies" and
his wife Sheila will reply. Alex Mackie is our Master of Ceremonies,
and Stuart Jardine will address the haggis, to be piped in by Neil
Foster. 56 Cedar Hill Drive. The evening will start with a cash bar;
there will be assigned seating - tables of eight, so if you can,
please make up tables. The 3-course dinner was buffet style, with
roast beef, together with the traditional "neaps, tatties an'
haggis".
- 100 attended - a great
success
Saturday 19th Nov 2005 - Annual Dinner & Gala
- Crowne Plaza Hotel
- 100 attended .
enquire
details
Monday 17th Oct 2005 05- Pub Night - The Tartan Pub, Wellington 12
attended
Saturday 4th June -
Scottish
Heritage Tour of the Lower Ottawa
Valley - 35 attended
- including L'Orignal, Carillon, St
André d'Argenteuil, Pointe Fortune and the
Macdonnell-Williamson house
Saturday 12 March '05 - Sugarbush trip to Fulton's Pancake House - 11
am for 11.30am.- 14 attended
Sunday 27 Feb '05, 2pm - Ceilidh Dancing & Scottish Tea -
Pinecrest Rec Complex
Sat 19 Feb - Informal Ceilidh - Maki House Crystal Beach, $12 in
advance, $15 at the door -
- Ceilidh dances, singing, harp music,
Scots supper
Saturday 29th Jan 2005 - Burns Supper - Cedarhill Golf Club
- 6.30 cash bar, 7 pm Buffet 3-course
supper, roast beef, and "neaps, tatties an' haggis"
- The Immortal memory, Toast to the
Lassies & a reply; tables of eight
- 140 attended
2004
Monday 13th Dec - Pub Night - Highlander Pub, Rideau St - 10
attended
Saturday 27 Nov - Informal Dinner & Ceilidh - run by the
Sons of
Scotland Pipe Band - $20
the St Andrew's Society is
supporting this event
Saturday 13th Nov - Annual Dinner & Gala, Crowne Plaza Hotel,
Ottawa - tickets $85 - over 140 attended
Saturday 29 May 2004 -
Scottish
Heritage Tour - Middleville,
MacDonald's Corners, Lanark & Perth
Monday 10th May 2004- Pub Night &
Movie - Pendragon Pub, Merivale Road
The Victorian Scots Poet McGonagall - a Dundonian with an Irish
background. Peter Sellers, Spike Milligan and Julia Foster star on
one of Sellers' early movies in the fifties, which takes a
light-hearted look at McGonagall's life. A dozen people attended.
Sunday 18 April - Tartan Day Dinner and
AGM - members and guests only - BYC 6.30 for 7 pm
&endash;
thirty attended
Sunday 21 March - Scots Cooking Class - - at Loblaws,
Baseline/Merivale - 2 - 4.30 pm
Armadale meat pie, Clootie
Dumpling, Lemon curd and Drop scones - 20 attended
Sat 13 March - informal Spring Ceilidh with Iain Phillips
Mon 9th Feb - Pub Night - 6.30 for 7 pm. The Urban Well Pub
- with an after supper illustrated lecture by Hugh
Reekie - Trades, Travels & Trysts - a brief look at Scots Social
History
-8.15 - 9.30 pm - in the Urban Pub Library -
15 attended
Sunday 18th Jan 2004 -
Afternoon
Ceilidh tea dance, 2 - 5 pm - 12
attended
Sat 24th Jan 2004 - Burns Supper - Britannia Yacht
Club - over 100 attended
Sat 29th November 2003 - Informal St.
Andrew's Day Ceilidh - Maki House, Crystal Beach 7.30 - 10.30
pm - light Scots supper
Sat 15th November 2003 - Annual Dinner & Gala $85 -
details - Crowne
Plaza Hotel, 6 pm - 1 am - -
150 attended;
Sunday 26th Oct 2003 - Informal Ceilidh Tea Dance
Saturday 10 May 2003 -
Scottish
Heritage Tour - Arnprior & McNab
Museum an all-day event - 45
attended
Sunday 27th April 2003 -
Afternoon
Ceilidh tea dance, 2 - 5 pm
Scots Cooking Demonstration - Sunday
afternoon 9th March 2003 :
Over a dozen members and friends watched as three members (expert
cooks!) described how to make Haggis, Scotch Broth and
Shortcake.
Informal
Ceilidh, Sat Nov 30, 2002
Maki House Crystal Beach. Ceilidh
dancing, scots songs Scots home-cooked supper - celtic harper
Annual
Dinner & Gala - Saturday 9th November
2002, - Crowne Plaza Hotel
- 290
attended
Stuart
& Wilma Jardine 225-5712, Pat & John Shaver 828-5749, Avril
& Greville Price 725-6055 and Lynn Paul
820-7699.
Lecture
- Strome Galloway - Scots Wha Hae - 14 Oct 2001 - Old Town Hall, 2.30
- 4 pm, light refreshments
Spring
Scottish Heritage Tour - Almonte
& Mill of Kintail - Sat 26th May 2001
Spring Lecture - Wednesday 21st
March
2001 - 7
pm A
History of Curling - Denny
Charlebois & Don Bond - 12 attended
Winter
Lecture - Sunday 4 March 2001 - 3.30
pm Presbyterians
in Carleton County - David
Brearley - Old Town Hall - $5 -20
persons attended -
details
St Andrew's Dinner and Gala - Saturday, 18th November 2000, Chateau Laurier . - over 250 attended See photo of the 1999 event. The 1996 event celebrated the 150th anniversary of the Society.
A list of the societies'artifacts and the start of a summary history of the society are on the web. See the Society's Banner. Read extracts from the Societies recent newsbuttetins.
President
-
Hugh
Reekie 164 Bayswater Ave., Ottawa
K1Y 2G3, Ont, ph 613-728-5343 fax 613-728-9143
Secretary
- Anna Foster
First Vice-President
- Bob Bhan
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Andrew Soc Edinburgh -
Toronto Fredericton Montreal Hamilton Saint
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