- last updated 30 Jan 2012 -
Society
Calendar - 2012
Sat 14 Jan 2.30 -4.30 pm Scottish
Gardens - mini videos from the internet, tea afterwrds
Bells Corners
Centennial Library 3870 Richmond Rd
Sat 21 Jan 2012 - Burns Supper - BYC
-
tickets
avail late Dec; $45 - priority to members & their friends
The Immortal
Memory - Rev David Thom, Knox church, Ottawa
Toast to the
Lassies - Iain McGilveray
Roast beef
buffet supper - haggis etc - 100 attended
Sat 25 Feb The Celtic Harp - an
afteroon with Mary Muckle.
-
2.30 - 4.30pm - ask for more details
Hugh
Reekie
Sat 17 March - The Empire Exhibition,
Glasgow, 1938
- 2 - 5 pm some videos - ask for more details
Hugh
Reekie
April - to come
Spring Heritage Tour - May or early
June
Glengarry &
St Andrew's West, incl Raisin River Heritage Centre
A
HISTORY OF THE BORDERS FROM EARLIEST
TIMES - 120 minutes. ALSITAIR MOFFATT
TAKES US ON A JOURNEY THROUGH 5000 TURBULENT YEARS INTO THE CRUCIBLE
WHERE THE UK WAS FORMED. Admisssion free, $5 donation for light Scots
tea afterwards, reservations appreciated.
Hugh
& Frances Reekie
- Alistar Moffatt is a historian
from Kelso, who spent many years at STV Glasgow; he has written
numerous books. THE OLDE FORGE IS AT THE
JUNCTION OF RICHMOND AND
CARLING.
to
join or renew - see
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special page
see
a
Chief Guest
Listing at Annual Gala Dinners -
President's list
- 1935 -
'73 1846
- 1935
2006
Scots Heritage Tour -
2007
Past
events 2010 -11
Sun 03 Oct2 010 -
The Scottish Soldier & Talk
from a WWII Veteran - The Olde Forge,
Carling & Richmond 2.30 pm
Tues 19 Oct -
Pub night - location TBD -
previously scheduled for 12 Oct
Sun 07 Nov -
Video session, The Olde Forge,
Carling & Richmond 2.30 pm
Scottish Steam
Railways - non-members welcome.
Wed 10 Nov -
Pub night - location TBD -
previously scheduled for 09 Nov
Sun 16 Jan 2011 - Burns World - an
illustrated tralk by Scott Reid -
details
Sun 20 Feb - "Scottish
home children" - a talk
- Old Forge 2.30pm
Lorraine & Gordon Reoch - tea fterwards
Sun 27 March - Video
session, "A
History of the Borders" -
The Olde Forge, Carling &
Richmond 2 pm
Fri 08 April - AGM & Dinner to commemorate Tartan Day - Kristy's
Restaurant, Richmond RdSat 10 Sat 10 Sept - a Scottish Heritage
Tour to
Renfrew
& District - 45 attended
Sun 16 Oct - Video session Harris & the Outer
Hebrides - The Olde Forge,
Carling & Richmond 2 pm
Sat 19 Nov 2011 - - Annual Gala Dinner -
Crowne Plaza (Now New Delta) Hotel
Fri
9 April 2010 - Tartan Day Dinner
& AGM -Sat 5 June - Scottish
Heritage Tour - Middleville, Watson's Corners, Lanark & Perth -
fee about $45 for members
-
details -
Sun 19 April -
Scottish
Art Appreciation 3pm &
Tea 4pm - Old Forge -
details
Sun 21 March - Presentation - The
Old Scots Universities - John
Young-- 2.30pm. location TBD
Sat 9 Jan 2010 - TV video clips
session incl - Homecoming 2009 -
2.30pm, Bells Corners Library
Sat 30 Jan - Annual Burns
Supper - contact
Hugh
Reekie
pub nights are an informal way of meeting
up - for both old and new members - 6.30 for 7 pm supper
Traditional Burns Supper -
Saturday 24th January 2009 at
Britannia Yacht Club -
attendance 118
To celebrate the 250th anniversary of Robert Burns birth - one day early. The cloak rooms are downstairs.
Tickets - $45 enquiries - contact Hugh & Frances Reekie
The Master of Ceremonies - Alan James. The Immortal Memory - Iain McGilveray. The Toast to the Lasssies - Stuart Jardine. Piper Neil Foster will play. The reply to the lassies' toast - Pamela Gemmell. Carol Anderson - some Burns songs.
Dinner: roast beef buffet with all the trimmings, with haggis, turnips and mashed potatoes; includes salad and dessert.
Sat 22 Nov - Annual Dinner & Gala - Crowne Plaza Hotel - attendance 116
Sat 7 June 2008 - a
Saturday
Scottish Heritage Tour of Williamstown and
area
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".
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 -
A traditional evening, with the
Haggis.- 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
-
100 attended
Saturday 19th Nov 2005 - Annual Dinner & Gala
- Crowne Plaza Hotel
- 100 attended
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,-- 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 . Peter Sellers, Spike Milligan
and Julia Foster - 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
- 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
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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sales
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225-5712, Pat & John Shaver 828-5749,
Avril & Greville Price 725-6055 and Lynn Paul 820-7699.
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