Category: Canadian people of Scottish descent

Learners who wish to use purportedly correct English are in fact faced with the dual standard of American English and British English, and other less known standard Englishes ( including Australian, Scottish and Canadian ).

Category: Canadian people of Scottish descent

* 1971 – Jamie Drummond, Scottish / Canadian Sommelier

;,,, Scottish Gaelic: Eilean a ' Phrionnsa ) is a Canadian province consisting of an island of the same name, as well as other islands.

According to the 2001 Canadian Census, the largest ethnic group consists of people of Scottish descent ( 38. 0 %), followed by English ( 28. 7 %), Irish ( 27. 9 %), French ( 21. 3 %), German ( 4. 0 %), and Dutch ( 3. 1 %) descent.

Pierre Trudeau was born in Montreal to Charles-Émile Trudeau, a French Canadian businessman and lawyer, and Grace Elliott, who was of French and Scottish descent.

* The Toronto Scottish Regiment ( Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother's Own ), a Canadian militia unit

McLoughlin was born in Rivière-du-Loup, Quebec, of Irish ( his grandfather came from Sharagower in the Inishowen peninsular of County Donegal ), Scottish, and French Canadian descent.

Some have hypothesized that Canadian raising may be related historically to a similar phenomenon that exists in Scots and Scottish English.

The Canadian monarchy can trace its ancestral lineage back to the kings of the Angles and the early Scottish kings, through centuries since parts of the territories that today comprise Canada were claimed by King Henry VII in 1497 and others by King Francis I in 1534 ; both being blood relatives of the current Canadian monarch.

Its population is a diverse mixture of nationalities which contributes to various Scottish, Acadian, African Canadian and eastern European cultural events being held throughout the year.

Category: Canadian people of Scottish descent

* Private William Johnstone Milne of the 16th ( Canadian Scottish ) Battalion.

Category: Canadian people of Scottish descent

John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir ( 26 August 1875 11 February 1940 ) was a Scottish novelist, historian and Unionist politician who served as Governor General of Canada, the 15th since Canadian Confederation.

Dr. Norman Bethune came from a prominent Scottish Canadian family.

16. 7 % were of English, 12. 2 % Irish, 12. 1 % French, 9. 1 % French Canadian, 8. 7 % American, 7. 3 % Italian, 6. 4 % German and 5. 2 % Scottish ancestry according to Census 2000.

As of the 2010 American Community Survey, it was estimated that 22. 2 % of the population were of Irish, 16. 7 % French, 9. 6 % French Canadian, 14. 4 % English, 10. 4 % Italian, 8. 1 % German, 4. 8 % Polish, 3. 7 % Scottish, 3. 6 % American, and 2. 6 % Greek ancestry.

26. 3 % were of English, 13. 8 % United States or American, 12. 2 % French, 9. 2 % Irish, 7. 9 % French Canadian, and 5. 3 % Scottish ancestry according to Census 2000.

Perhaps the most relevant of these is a Canadian Scottish community in Ontario, Canada.

Other prominent ancestries include French Canadian ( 3. 6 %), Scottish ( 3 %), Arab ( 2. 5 %) and Dutch ( 1. 6 %).

Category: Canadian people of Scottish descent

After drinking at the White Horse, a pub he had found through Scottish poet Ruthven Todd, Thomas returned to the Hotel Chelsea, declaring, " I've had 18 straight whiskies.

Island Single Malts is a general term for single malt Scotch whiskies produced on the islands around the perimeter of the Scottish mainland.

The Tormore is one of the younger Scottish whiskies, the distillery construction began in 1958 and was completed in 1960.

While the spelling " whisky " is more commonly associated with Scotch, Maker's Mark is one of the few American-made whiskies to be labeled using the Scottish spelling (" whisky " as opposed to " whiskey " with an " e ").

Scottish law also provides for a more serious charge of aggravated assault on the basis of such factors as severity of injury, the use of a weapon, or Hamesuken ( to assault a person in his own home ).

Some beers today, such as Fraoch by the Scottish Heather Ales company and Cervoise Lancelot by the French Brasserie-Lancelot company, use plants other than hops for flavouring.

Musician Alan Stivell uses a similar dichotomy, between the Gaelic ( Irish / Scottish / Manx ) and the Brythonic ( Breton / Welsh / Cornish ) branches, which differentiate " mostly by the extended range ( sometimes more than two octaves ) of Irish and Scottish melodies and the closed range of Breton and Welsh melodies ( often reduced to a half-octave ), and by the frequent use of the pure pentatonic scale in Gaelic music.

The growing influence of English-dominated media from outside the Scottish communities saw the use of this language erode quickly during the 20th century.

Promotions for tourism beginning in the 1950s recognized the importance of the Scottish culture to the province, and the provincial government started encouraging the use of Gaelic once again.

The actual number in Scotland varies considerably — between approximately 350 to 500 due to the use of the term " island dun " for well over one hundred Hebridean examples — a distinction that has created a divide between mainland Scottish crannog and Hebridean islet settlement studies.

In 1865 Robert Roberts published a collection of Scottish psalms and hymns called The Golden Harp ( which was subtitled " Psalms, Hymns, and Spiritual Songs, compiled for the use of Immersed Believers in ' The Things concerning the Kingdom of God and the Name of Jesus Christ '").

He made use of his Scottish experience to write his Tour thro ' the whole Island of Great Britain, published in 1726, where he admitted that the increase of trade and population in Scotland which he had predicted as a consequence of the Union, was " not the case, but rather the contrary ".

** A Scottish Borders tradition with a repertoire heavy in hornpipes and with heavy use of double stops.

Although Irish and Manx are often referred to as Irish Gaelic and Manx Gaelic ( as they are Goidelic or Gaelic languages ), the use of the word Gaelic is unnecessary because the terms Irish and Manx, when referring to language, only ever refer to these languages, whereas Scots has come to refer to a Germanic language, and therefore " Scottish " can refer to things not at all Gaelic.

The use of Scots and English became prominent in recent times but the Hebrides still contain the largest concentration of Scottish Gaelic speakers in Scotland.

The development of bleaching powder ( calcium hypochlorite ) by Scottish chemist Charles Tennant in about 1800, based on the discoveries of French chemist Claude Louis Berthollet, revolutionised the bleaching processes in the textile industry by dramatically reducing the time required ( from months to days ) for the traditional process then in use, which required repeated exposure to the sun in bleach fields after soaking the textiles with alkali or sour milk.

Ever since its first publication, Murray's theory has come under criticism for flaws in its use of evidence, with later historian Ronald Hutton remarking that it consisted of " a few well-known works by Continental demonologists, a few tracts printed in England and quite a number of published records of Scottish witch trials.

While First-past-the-post voting is commonly found in countries based on the British parliamentary system, and in Westminster elections in the United Kingdom, the Scottish Parliament and the Welsh National Assembly use a form of PR known as the mixed member system, after New Zealand adopted it in 1993.

Anyone using RP will typically speak Standard English although the reverse is not necessarily true ( e. g. the standard language may be pronounced with a regional accent, such as a Scottish or Yorkshire Accent ; but it is very unlikely that someone speaking RP would use it to speak the Scots or the Yorkshire Dialect ).

During the reign of Rama III ( 1824 – 1851 ,) a Scottish trader had experimental coins struck in England at the king's behest, Though not adopted for use, the name of the country put on these first coins was Muang Thai, not Siam.

If the Taylor series is centered at zero, then that series is also called a Maclaurin series, named after the Scottish mathematician Colin Maclaurin, who made extensive use of this special case of Taylor series in the 18th century.

Jardine, who had good relations with Lord Napier, a Scottish peer, and his family, then took the initiative to use the debacle as an opportunity to convince the British government to use force to further open trade.

* The use of The Scottish Maiden is first documented in Ireland.

The differences in pronunciation of Iranian and Afghan Persian can be considerable, on par with Scottish and Cockney English, although educated speakers generally have no difficulty understanding each other ( except in the use of certain lexical items or idiomatic expressions ).