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- Are Highland Games the same over the world? Afro Celtic Scottish history tour guide, Bruce Fummey, goes to a highland games in Canada to see how it differs from the one in his own village back home.
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A scotsman is a scotsman regardless of the color of their skin. And Bruce is as Scottish as they come. Sláinte Bruce! 🥃
Bullsh#t
Have a dear friend who is Scottish ,pure Cherokee .
And here's me thinking he's just got a good tan, from all those trips abroad. I'm from Norwegian/Irish heritage, 100% not British, pure Scottish. No ginger hair, strangely enough, just down there.
😅 TMI @@haraldtheyounger5504
Bruce is the definition of SCOTTISHNESS!! This man is a legend for us Jocks. 🙌 🏴
Bruce, I'm a Morrison 77yo , My Dad was Gaelic speaking Scots from The Isle of Harris, I'm glad your enjoying my Country !!
It's been great fun
I'm in Guelph now. I did a show in Fergus last night
I was at that show last night and let me just say it was FAN-TASTIC! I loved every minute of it! Went to see it with my cousin and aunt and uncle who are ex-pats from Motherwell! Got them all hooked onto your CZcams page and they've been bingeing on your past videos for the past few months! They both got a laugh wherever you would reference Fife as they still have a close friend living there! I really hope your enjoying your visit to Canada, Bruce? Dispite the fact that we open your beer cans for you here and Nate doesnae have a clue what a Jaffa cake is or we heat up your biscuits!😆🇨🇦🏴🇬🇭🍻
my grandparents lived in embro. most of my childhood and teen years were spent living in oxford county. my mom was an armstrong, my dad a bailey. so friggin' scots, i bleed plaid. enjoy the games.
You must come back sometime for the festival in Fergus. I live in Guelph and go every year. I've just started into the heavies and we camp for the weekend, it is great. If you enjoyed Port Hope, you certainly would not be disappointed in Fergus.
Here's a Scot in Canada you might want to cover: Alexander MacKenzie. He was an explorer and travelled from Montreal to the coast of BC, the first European to do so. Along the way he followed a river to the artic ocean which he named the river of despair, since renamed the MacKenzie river. He carved his name & date into a rock face, still visible, on the Pacific coast a mere few weeks separated him & Captain George Vancouver's exploration of the same coast. The Americans Clark & Lewis read his memoirs to prepare for their journey 12 years later. There are schools, roads and many other things named for him in this country. A new river class destroyer will be named HMCS MacKenzie. He ended his days in Scotland.
(Another amazing scot was John rae who discovered the fate of the Franklin expedition by hiking there solo. He was blackballed by Lady Franklin because he reported cannibalism).
I know, I thought about him, but didn't have a canoe
@@ScotlandHistoryTours Both Alexander MacKenzie and John Rae have stories that connect to the family of Cuthbert Grant Sr. whose children founded the Metis Nation. Cuthbert Grant Jr. and Queen Victoria were 8th great grandchildren of King James V. Next time you're in Hamilton Ontario let me know and I'll give you a private tour of some sites connected to Scottish history including John Rae, and reveal my hidden famliy connection to them.
On the theme of Scottish engineers and scientists, there’s also Sandford Fleming, easily worth a video
Grateful to be part of the Highland games in the US my entire life (as a piper) and to have passed it down to my children and grandchildren.
A pleasure to meet and talk to you Bruce and Zak!! Glad to see myself at 4:29 🇨🇦🏴
Bruce in a kilt, you should do it a lil more often, looking good!! 💙🏴
Don't forget the modern take on a traditional linen shirt looks great on him!
Agreed! Bruce looks great in his kilt!
The Victoria Highland Games on Vancouver Island, British Columbia have been going for 161 years. The "Father of British Columbia" and its first governor James Douglas was of mixed race. His father was from Scotland and his mother was of African ancestry. Come visit, you'd be surprised at the breadth of Scottish culture in Canada. The Simon Fraser University Pipeband of Vancouver has won the world's many times.
Johnny Cash born in Kingsland, Arkansas, on February 26, 1932, to Carrie Cloveree (née Rivers) and Ray Cash. He had three older siblings, Roy, Margaret Louise, and Jack, and three younger siblings, Reba, Joanne, and Tommy (who also became a successful country artist). He was primarily of English and Scottish descent.
And Johnny‘S first wife was black . Isn’t that interesting mr. Confederate? 🤣🤣🫡‼️🇨🇦 my family came North in 1860 . Irish, Scottish and Nigerian Slave
@@MoosefromCanada Except the closest black relative she had was "one of her four maternal great-great-great-grandmothers was Sally Shields, a woman of mixed-race who was born into slavery in Alabama." (Wikipedia) Vivian was primarily Sicilian on her father's side & German/Irish on her mother's.
Not about Canada tho. Let's work on that.
A'reyt Bruce. The family I stayed with in Ontario were Scottish by ancestry. The grandad, who was Scottish, quite took to me as I had not heard all his stories and he had a new audience, though I also think my "having time of day for folk" Yorkshire attitude helped us get on. It was said I had been adopted.
In Vancouver I thought I was getting on famously with celtic looking redhead French speaking lass, but then I realised that no matter the background or the language we were speaking, she was just being a friendly Canadian.
😂😂
We’re aw jock tamsons bairns -cut us we bleed red ❤
This is off to a good start
The mum and her son dashing across the screen didn’t distract me until he took a nose dive.
Ok, back to the show!
Entertainment all the way
@@ScotlandHistoryTours Indeed!
It was great to see you in person last night in Fergus!! Keep the videos coming; it’s a weekly ritual to watch you Saturday mornings with my tea!! Enjoy the rest of your time here!!
Thanks for posting. I was born in Fergus! ❤
It’s amazing how many Highland Games are still held all over…including here in the US (Michigan too where I’m from). In fact, a neighbor flies the Scots flag. They’re everywhere! 😂 Love the kilt Bruce!
Are you talking about the Alma games? It's been years since I've been to it. I'm in Lansing. A little bit Scotish too.
Bruce posts I must watch.
Pipes and Drums are a BIG part of canadian military traditions...now and in every conflict we're been involved in...WWII, WWI, Afganisthan, the Boer war, the seven years war...
My aunts have a friend who they meet in Toronto. She is from Nova Scotia. She is a Bagpiper with the complete official Scotish outfit for a Bagpiper.
Great to see. I don't think we appreciate the Scottish diaspora enough.
This is an incredible video! Welcome to my country, we welcome you with open arms! Happy Canada Day from Toronto! My moms family came to Canada from Scotland in the early 1900s, around 1905, and its just lovely to hear your accent reminds me of my family who still live there to this day!
Thanks for covering a little bit of my Country paying homage to yours. Scotland heritage and culture is deeply engrained in the Canadian identity...and our Highland Games events are always a blast, great way to experience a taste of the old Country.
Bruce sounds like he'd be a fun person to spend a day with just by the energy he gives off
My grandfather Duncan MacDonald💓(Rest in Peace🕊🍃✨️✝️✨️), was born and raised Nova Scotia, Canada. He taught us very well to know, our blood is from the Highlands!💪🏞💯.
To the Highlands we go!
Love the Highland games. Used to go every year with my dad💓(Rest in Peace🕊🍃✨️✝️✨️). They're held nearby in Vista, Ca.
Thank you for this great video!
Love this!
God bless.
I've gone to the Highland games in my home state here in the U.S. every year since i was a kid. It's always a good time and a great group of people.
I've always wondered what the native Scots make of all this 😅
Great talking with you and your son that day!! Didn't know the camera was on either. Glad to have you at the games in proper Scottish/Canadian style. Great video!
I'm Canadian and my Clan Farquharson coat of arms hangs in the front entrance to my house. I even have the kilt, in the Officer's pattern.
It was fun to see you explore the Highland Games in Port hope! That is where I live. Just walking distance from the fairgrounds where it was held. Unfortunately I missed the event because I’m in Nova Scotia visiting my 2 sons who are renovating a house for me 😊
Welcome/Bienvenue Sir! I hope you love our beautiful country and our friendly people. I'm waaaaaaaay over here in Manitoba. Have a lovely visit! I've Scottish ancestry primarily on my Mom's side and I do hope I will be able to visit Scotland one day. All the best and safe travels to you.
Expat Canuck living in Perthshire! Thanks for posting. Take care & stay safe.
See you when I'm back
Great video!! That's a game I have not attended yet. I'm sure my daughter and her band were there competing. As for the tug o war, you see that at some games here in Ontario. The big one is at the Glengarry Highland Games at Maxville. Members of the Canadian Army reserve units come and put on a big tug o war event. Great fun!
Welcome to Canada from a Scottish descendant...my parents....I am the only one born in this country. I've never been to the games but would love to see the caber toss! At any rate, I hope you enjoy your time here and of course the games. Safe travels.
Lovely video Bruce. Glad you had a good time!😊
A Highland Games is held in Glasgow Kentucky annually. It’s really good and if you’re in the area you should check it out. There’s a lot of Scots-Irish here as they originally settled the area. note, my Duncan, Alexander, Brockett, ancestors fought in both the French & Indian and the Revolutionary wars. As best I can find, most of them came over in the early 1700’s to 1750’s, and as they were Presbyterian I think they were of the Covenanter group that migrated through northern Ireland, but I’ve got more research to do on this. Greetings from Louisville Ky
My university has a pipe band that has won multiple (when I was going there it was 5, but it's more now) world championships. AFAIK, it was the first band outside the UK to win multiple (or back to back). That school? Simon Fraser University just outside Vancouver, BC, Canada.
In the legendary words of the late John Mann, “there’s none more Scots than the Scots abroad.” 😂 I’ve been to games that have had a tug o’war here in Ontario before. I think each games is a little bit different. Not by much, but little things. Specific traditions, degree of formality, etc What I tend to enjoy most is when each individual band practices in random locations through the day. It’s nice to be walking around and come across a circle of musicians playing together, and sometime a dancer will join and preform some highland dancing in the round. Good times always.
Hey Bruce, here in Antigonish, known as the “Highland Heart of Nova Scotia”, we have the 159th running of the Antigonish Highland games, which is the longest running Highland Games in North America, from July 7-14. Céad míle fáilte (One hundred thousand welcomes)!
Thanks for taking me along with you!
Any time!
One of our Maritime Provinces is called Nova Scotia - Latin for New Scotland. There is a very strong Scottish tradition there. The provincial flag is the cross of Saint Andrew with the lion rampant on a shield in the middle.
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@@ScotlandHistoryTours thank you!
Truly enjoyed the interview and the great job done by Bruce as Honorary Chieftain who provided really shining moments during a great festival day at Northumberland.
Ah I love this!!! Thank you for visiting us and highlighting Canadian-Scot traditions! Hope you come back soon :) (PS, didn't know we sounded funny to Scots but always suspected lol)
Oh, I wish I'd known! I'd have come to say hi! Though, sadly, my kilt was destroyed in my house fire.
There have been Highland Games held in Victoria, on Vancouver Island, every year since 1864. It was there I had the best haggis I've ever tasted (in classic west coast style, the haggis was cooked in a wok).
Another Canadian fact of interest. The famous Cowichan First Nations sweater
Pattern of Vancouver Island has it's roots in Scotland. In 1885 Jemina Colvin, a settler from Shetland Island, homesteaded near Duncan BC and shared her fair isle knitting pattern with local indigenous women and they adapted the pattern into their own beautiful and distinctive knitting style. 😊
Welcome to Canadian hill's🇨🇦💯🕊️🥰😊
Clan societies aren't just a North American thing, we have them here in Australia too. It seems to be an 'Everywhere but Scotland' thing. Great to see the Clan Gregor tent in the background there, Ard Choille!
Aye there probably was one there at the games I was at in McLean NSW last year
Love this! I used to go to the one in Guelph Ontario every summer, been afew years now tho, something of a hermit now. I still remember sitting in a little valley as the bands came in with the drums sounding like thunder as the they bounced off the little hills around us, or something. 🥰
so nice. can't wait for the NH highland games this fall in New Hampshire. already got tickets. three days worth of good times
Great video! I miss the days when my hometown of Sarnia in SW Ontario hosted annual Highland Games, sadly now defunct. The nearest is now in Embro a 1.5h drive away. As for the pipe bands, those are a regular feature of pretty much every holiday parade here in Ontario so you can look forward to hearing more if you attend a Canada Day celebration tomorrow as well.
We had a highland games in Blackpool. Held in the athletics stadium. Back when the mill towns still had wakes weeks and whole towns emptied one by one for their summer holiday. Back before we discovered Spain.
The town was full of Glaswegians for at least a week every year. And one of the weekends during the lights.
The highland games was welcomed by our boss (who grew up in Leith before it was gentrified) loved it. Not for the games but because she could sell an 6d ice cream for 9d. She was Italian and as tight fisted as a Yorkshireman. 😂
0:21 As someone from Cape Breton that caught me off guard. P.S like the content. Makes me me proud of my heritage 🏴🇨🇦
Thanks for sharing new videos as you travel Canada! As always, I appreciate your content.
This was awesome. Looks like you had a great time Bruce.
Great reaction video, Bruce! For the Tug of War event, Cambridge, Ontario would be the place I always watched it. From the sounds of it, not all but some have this event.
Glad the beer tent was able to stay open Bruce, all that mingling would have been thirsty work.
The Games looked great and remind me of the Cowal Gathering Games in Dunoon in its scope.
Keep up the great (thirsty)work.
A dirty job, but I gritted my teeth and got on with it
My Stewart, MacAuley, McCoach and Hamilton ancestors left Scotland and were settled in Ireland 400 years ago, yet you make me nostalgic for a homeland to which I have no real cultural claim. Your videos are great and I am glad you are having a blast here in Canada. Cheers from Victoria, B.C.
I'll be there for my live stand up show on 13th July www.brucefummey.co.uk/shows.aspx
Ya had me at "Furious Fengerin".
😂
Fun meeting you and Zak in Fergus. Entertaining stand up show. Class act
Thank you muchly
Hello Bruce, I’m one of your loyal Patreon members and just wanted to say I’m excited to see you in Victoria BC Canada on July 13th. !!
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Thank you, Bruce, for this video and visiting us in Canada.
My pleasure!
Thanks for posting another great video.👍
Thanks for watching!
Cheers and Rasta! Love it.
I'm Nova Scotian, and have been to Highland Games in NS, but have never been to one elsewhere. As a child, I was surrounded by fiddles and bagpipes and all the girls in school took highland dancing.
I have always loved the sound of the pipes and all that goes with the highland Games!
when you hear them do you get a tightness in your chest and are just drawn to go to them? Maybe its the nova scotian part of me, (I don't even think i have scottish ancestry) but i feel like a moth to a flame when I hear the pipes. past lives maybe.
@@hollyjensen2371 Yes, I do! I get motivated hearing them. Does it feel like they stir the soul? They do for me.
@@wesmartin1210 they do stir something in the soul, at times I almost tear up (I know that sounds silly) but there it is.
@@hollyjensen2371 It does not sound silly at all because I almost tear up as well. You are in good company.
Absolutely love the accent, could just listen to you all day
Love your content! Missed your show when you came to Montréal.
Hoping to catch your show when you come back.
Just wanted to share a topic if you’re interested in looking into for content. The flag of the city of Montreal has the flowers of it’s founding cultures; The French Fleur de Lys, the English Rose, The Irish Shamrock, The Scottish Thistle and added in recent years The White Pine / The Great Tree of peace recognizing the First Peoples - The Haundenosaunee.
Attended my first Aussie Highland Games/Celtic Festival, back in March. Gave me the kick in the arse needed to wear the Buchanan kilt and get connected with the Clan Society... and the whisky tents 😅
First yes Johnny Cash and Scottish blood and we also have the games down here in the States in different areas we're Scots migrated to like Western New York where my mother's was from and the rest of New England, I used to compete in the game held in Eastren Ohio and Western Pennsylvania my self way back in the nintys and they are held much the same way here, great video Bruce 🏴🇺🇲🏴🇺🇲
We have showies in Moray. Only place I've ever heard the term come to think of it.
Looking good in your kilt Bruce! I'm not surprised that a Ceilidh band would be playing Country music. From what I understand, Country music is derived from the music the Scots-Irish who settled in Appalachia brought with them.
I know, but it's just not something I see in Scotland.
Fantastic! I hope you can make it to the BC Highland Games in Coquitlam some year. Always a beer garden and whiskey tent! One year there was 300 pipers playing in unison. Also the SFU piper band regularly appears.
My uncle was a drum major and adjudicated at hundreds of Highland Games around the world. I don’t think I ever saw him sitting down without a drum pad perched on a chair arm. I now live in the US and have been to a fair few up and down the East coast of both the US and Canada. There is a lot more “clanny “ focus here, but I think that’s just a way for people to cement their heritage for themselves and others. I often get “what clan are you from?” And I answer that I am a proud lowlander from Burns’ country ( this is sometimes met w/ a questioning look - if not it usually generates a good convo). All in all, the warmth, skill and camaraderie seems to be a constant no matter what side of the pond I’m on.
You are the best. Just subscribed. Welcome to Ontario! Love the history you present.
Welcome aboard!
aw.. glad you are enjoying Canada Bruce..
Wonderful video Bruce, cheers me dear! 🙋🙏🏴🇮🇪
My mam used to say ‘you can be born in a stable it doesn’t make you a horse’ in other words be Scottish if your heart wants to be… however be prepared if you follow football ⚽️ 😂😂
Oofty fella dinnae we’re gash coyp
My great great grandfather is supposed to have said the same. His family had come from the isle of Mull to Ireland in the 1830’s before his daughter came to Canada in 1883.
Would’ve been cool to go to Antigonish Highland Games in Nova Scotia - oldest outside of Scotland! They’re happening in mid July
Thank you! Childhood memories..
I went to my first Celtic Festival back on 9 June. We will likely go every year now. The one I went to was held at Westminster Maryland. It had much of the same things you found in Ontario. There were piping contests, a clan alley, Highland Games and more. It was great fun!
The largest gathering of Scottish Clans in the world happens at Grandfather Mountain, North Carolina, USA. The Grandfather Mountain Highland Games is four days the weekend after July 4th. Over 125 Clans and Societies are represented. It would be great if you could come. Maybe do some shows while in the area. North Carolina has a large number of people with Scottish heritage.
Hope you enjoy your visit! I live just north of Toronto. :)
Another stella video!! 🤠
Talking of pipers not in Scotland, have you heard The Snake Charmer on CZcams?
Really talented and different genres 💜
Me and my sister will be heading to the highland games in Fergus later this August, it will be her first time but my second. Enjoy your stay and some random trivia, Perthshire is where my clan hails from, the Blair's of Balthayock 🏴🙂
There's none more Scot than the Scots abroad 🎶
Bruce, you have to visit the Highland gathering at Sychrov castle in the Czech Republic. Beer tent is definitely better than Blackford. Being from Auchterarder and married to a beautiful Czech girl, I have visited both many times. Keep up the good work!
I was at your Montreal show and have been looking forward to videos from your Canada tour. Thanks for this cousin. - Randall Kenneth Grant - Montreal, Qc
Thanks for coming. There are another five Canada videos up so far
I'm excited for this, Bruce. I've never been to the games. 19:40 The hair standing up on my arms. This looked like such fun. Please, will you take us to a Calling of the Clans?
I don't even know what that is. Is that like the thing in Outlander?
You should come to the Highland games in Victoria BC
It is a huge event.
Love to meet you Sir!!
Just found out you are in Vic July 13
Just bought tickets.
Can't wait!!!
Then there's the ScotfestBC and the BC Highland Games every year in Coquitlam (ko-Quit-lum, a coast Salish word for red fish up the river). East of Vancouver but still considered part of the metro area. I see there are 37 highland games and festivals in Canada!
Hi Bruce. Our Australian Highland Games Champion, Terry Sparkes, is currently competing in Denmark in the Highland Games World Championships.
He is very skilled and honourable competitor. Halima, Australia.
Well done him
It is in Norway, not Denmark sorry.
In case you'll be fighting them later😂 they put you to work!! Good job doing Scotland proud Bruce! Clan alley😂😂 this looks like a really fun time. I would def spend time at the shortbread tent😋 thanks for the music treat! I think in Appalachia that Scottish and country music is a thing. I like it!!
In my family,my Grandfather Morrison married my grandmother,a Cherokee indian.
Brilliant loved that.
I used to pull tug o war round the highland games circuit carron bridge was my teams name pulled against square in ,moffat builders and elgin , elgin were always awsome a right well disciplined team. 🏴🏴
I grew up going to the Highland Games in New Glasgow and Antigonish.
Thanks!
At 5he Victoria Highland Games we set up a booth for the United Empire Loyalists of Canada.
so disappointed I couldn't make it, was in Toronto all day. I live 15 minutes east of Port Hope, and my band, Airforce City was there
Come to the games in Maxville , Ontario. I think you'll enjoy them.
Lookin braw in the kilt mate! 💜
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"The young team" 😂🤣👍👍🏴
Bagpipes and Celtic fiddling was just a part of life in Stormont, Dundas & Glengarry counties where I grew up. My older brother is a piper.
Brilliant