The traditional music of Atlantic Canada is heavily influenced by the Irish, Scottish and Acadian ethnic makeup of much of the region's communities.

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

The Scottish and German farming communities were soon overshadowed by new populations from Southern and Eastern Europe.

Until 1800, New Bedford and its surrounding communities were, by and large, populated by Protestants of English, Scottish, and Welsh origin.

The United States has also seen documented folk music and recorded popular music produced in the ethnic styles of the Ukrainian, Irish, Scottish, Polish, Hispanic and Jewish communities, among others.

British ornithologists Robert Atkinson and John Ainslie observed the communities of Leach's Petrel on the remote Scottish islands of North Rona between the 16 July and 12 August 1936, and on Sula Sgeir between the 3 and 4 August 1939.

Additionally, Gannet SAR provides a medical evacuation service to the Scottish island communities.

The Dragon Rapides BEA had inherited from Scottish Airways and other former independent airlines it had taken over in early-1947 initially operated the corporation's Scottish routes, including services to remote communities in the Highlands and Islands.

These facts helped immensely in building the first mechanical television, the Radiovision, accomplished by the Scottish inventor John Logie Baird, as well as the first " TV-Enthusiasts " communities and even experimental

Konin is one of the main towns in Greater Poland on the Scottish Trail-the route leading through urban areas in Greater Poland and Lower Silesia connected with Scottish communities that settled in Poland in the course of history.

Nairn, formerly split into Scottish Gaelic-and Scots-speaking communities, was a town of two halves in other ways.

Campbeltown is one of the few communities in the Scottish Highlands where the Scots language predominated in recent centuries, rather than the previously widespread Scottish Gaelic.

Like words meaning " church " in other languages, kirk is found as an element in many place names in Scotland and northern England, and in countries with large Scottish expatriate communities.

The Findhorn Foundation is a Scottish charitable trust registered in 1972, formed by the spiritual community at the Findhorn Ecovillage, one of the largest intentional communities in Britain.

After Devolution in 1999, the Scottish Council of Jewish Communities was formed to give the Jewish Community of Scotland a single democratically accountable voice in dealings with the Scottish Parliament and Executive, other communities, and other statutory and official bodies.

Several Scottish politicians and social activists have singled out Buckfast Tonic Wine as being particularly responsible for crime, disorder, and general social deprivation in these communities.

For this reason, the Gàidhealtachd also increasingly refers to the regions in Scotland, Nova Scotia and other communities in Canada such as Glengarry County where Scottish Gaelic is spoken as the native language by most or some part of the population.

Scottish Gaelic has also survived among communities descended from immigrants in parts of Nova Scotia ( especially Cape Breton Island ), Glengarry County in present day Ontario, Prince Edward Island and Newfoundland ( although Newfoundland had an Irish Gaelic-speaking population ) in eastern Canada and those areas where Gaelic is spoken can also be said to be Gàidhealtachdan.

In May 2007, he started his tenure with promises to " relentlessly " pursue the Scottish fishing interests on behalf of fishermen and their communities.

Caledonian's transatlantic growth strategy focused on taking advantage of strong ethnic ties of overseas Scottish communities in North America to the land of their ancestors and an obscure International Air Transport Association ( IATA ) resolution dating from 1953.

On the death of Edgar in 1107 he succeeded to the Scottish crown ; but, in accordance with Edgar's instructions, their brother David was granted an appanage in southern Scotland.

In the Middle Ages, boroughs were settlements in England that were granted some self-government ; burghs were the Scottish equivalent.

In Scottish heraldry where the motto is granted as part of the blazon, it is usually shown on a scroll above the crest, and may not be changed at will.

On his way, he granted the Scottish estates of Bruce and his adherents to his own followers and had published a bill excommunicating Bruce.

English ( and Scottish ) monarch King James I granted a patent to the Earl of Carlisle for Tortola, as well as " Angilla, Semrera ( Sombrero island ) & Enegada ".

Among the dukedoms granted to still younger sons of the Sovereign are Cambridge, Connaught, Cumberland, Edinburgh, Gloucester, Kent and Sussex — others in the Scottish peerage have included Ross and Kintyre.

The individual chosen by the Estates could not be the same person who came to the English throne, unless England granted full freedom of trade to Scottish merchants.

At first, Anne withheld royal assent to the act, but granted it the following year when the Estates threatened to withdraw Scottish support for England's wars.

In 1703, the Estates passed a bill that declared that their selection for Queen Anne's successor would not be the same individual as the successor to the English throne, unless England granted full freedom of trade to Scottish merchants in England and its colonies.

On the September 29, 1621, a charter for the foundation of a New World Scottish colony was granted by James VI of Scotland to Sir William Alexander.

With the intellectual benefits of having established Europe's first public education system since classical antiquity Scottish thinkers began questioning assumptions previously taken for granted ; and with Scotland's traditional connections to France, then in the throes of the Enlightenment, the Scots began developing a uniquely practical branch of humanism to the extent that Voltaire said, " We look to Scotland for all our ideas of civilization.

First granted as Monadnock No. 4 in 1752 by Colonial Governor Benning Wentworth, this was one in a line of eight towns settled by Scottish colonists.

Under the terms of this Act, licences for the handling of human remains, including display, must be granted directly by the Scottish Ministry.

Although they were clearly preceded by the Mi ' kmaq and Acadian peoples, credit for the first permanent white settlement at Miramichi is often granted to Scottish settlers, led by William Davidson.

Administrative devolution was granted to Scotland, with the creation of the Scottish Office, in the late 19th century.

It was granted in 1625 by King Charles I for the first Scottish colony on the Canadian mainland.

The arms were originally granted in 1625 by King Charles I as part of a Scottish settlement attempt in Nova Scotia led by Sir William Alexander.

The Neville lands were primarily in Durham and Yorkshire, but both Richard II and Henry IV found the family useful to counterbalance the strength of the Percys on the Scottish Borders – hence Earl Ralph's title, granted in 1397, and his appointment as Warden of the West March in 1403.

This was combined with the complementary concept of oighreachd where the chieftain's authority came from charters granted by the feudal Scottish crown, where individual heritage was warranted.

A royal burgh was a type of Scottish burgh which had been founded by, or subsequently granted, a royal charter.

From September 2003, Megrahi's conviction was under review by the Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission, which reported its findings on June 28, 2007 and granted Megrahi leave for a second appeal against conviction.

The county was planted by English and Scottish landowners in 1620, with much of the O ' Farrell lands being confiscated and granted to new owners.

Before the passing of the Peerage Act 1963, which granted all Scottish peers a seat in the House of Lords, the Marquesses of Huntly sat in the House of Lords in virtue of their junior title of Baron Meldrum, which was in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.

The English Democrats are an English federalist political party, committed to the formation of a devolved English Parliament with at least the same powers as those granted to the Scottish Parliament.