11 Facts About Scottish Canadians

Scottish Canadians are people of Scottish descent or heritage living in Canada.

Categorically, Scottish Canadians comprise a subgroup of British Canadians which is a further subgroup of European Canadians.

Scottish Canadians people have a long history in Canada, dating back several centuries.

Gaelic influences of Scottish Canadians immigrants continue to play an important role in defining the cultural life of the province, especially in its music.

Scottish Canadians received the keys to the city gates from the French commander, Major de Ramezay, who was himself of Scottish descent, as many Scots had been employed by the French since the time of the Auld Alliance.

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An educational institution of Scottish Canadians origin is Queen's University in Kingston "the Aberdeen of Canada", founded largely through the efforts of noted scholar George Munroe Grant.

Scottish Canadians influence has been an important part of the cultural mix both in metropolitan Vancouver and wider British Columbian society.

In Victoria, two of the city's most recognizable landmarks, Craigdarroch Castle and Hatley Castle, were commissioned by the Scottish Canadians-born Dunsmuir family, whose coal-baron patriarch Robert Dunsmuir immigrated from Scotland to become one of Vancouver Island's richest businessmen.

Scottish Canadians's chose to call it "Kerry's Dale", after the name of her family home, Kerrydale, in Gairloch, Scotland.

Scottish Canadians's rebellion dramatized the need to reform the colony's outmoded constitution and led to the 1841 union of Upper Canada and Lower Canada.

Almost one-quarter of Canada's industrial leaders in the 1920s had been born in Scotland, and another quarter had Scottish Canadians-born fathers.