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ST. ANDREW’S BALLNOVEMBER 25, 2005The lively colour and festivepleasures of Scotland will becelebrated again this year at the St.Andrew’s Ball, to be held onFriday, November 25 th , 2005 at theFairmont Queen Elizabeth Hotel.This charity event, historically thelongest-running social occasion inMontreal, is always a spirited andentertaining evening.As in previous years, the Pipersand Drummers of The BlackWatch (Royal Highland Regiment)of Canada will lend splendidpageantry to this gala event,together with a performance byyoung dancers from the MontrealHighland Dancing Association.We are extremely pleased that thisyear our Guests of Honour will beLord and Lady Bruce. Lord Bruceis the eldest son of the 11 th Earl ofElgin, who was himself a Guest ofHonour at our ball in 1972. He isdescended from the 8 th Earl ofElgin who, as Governor General,signed into law the then highlycontested Rebellion Losses Bill of1849, thus affirming the principleof “Responsible Government” inCanada that governments wereanswerable to the will ofdemocratically elected legislators.During that eventful year, HisExcellency’s eldest son, VictorAlexander, who would laterbecome the 9 th Earl of Elgin, wasborn at Monklands in Montreal.The 8 th Earl of Elgin’s wife, LadyMary Lambton, was the eldestdaughter of the 1 st Earl of Durhamwho, in his brief tour as Governorof Canada in 1840, wrote theDurham Report which made anumber of observations about thesocial climate of Canada that echointo the political discourse to thisday.(Continued on page 14)Lord and Lady Bruce with their youngest child, Master BenedictThe Journal of the St. Andrew’s Society of Montreal, September 2005, Page 3.

THE MONTREAL HIGHLANDGAMESWOW ! ! ! ! What a great day.This year’s edition of the MontrealHighland Games, which took placeon Sunday, July 31 st , was anotherwonderful success. The weatherwas as close to perfect as one canget and the crowds poured inthrough the gates. There wereabout ten thousand people on thesite including over one thousandcompetitors. There were 36 pipebands, 125 highland dancers andnine heavyweight athletes vyingfor the top prizes. The St.Andrew’s Society once againsupported the highland dancingcompetitions and the Society’sPresident, Bruce McNiven, spokeduring the opening ceremonies andwas on the stage to present thewinners with their medals andtrophies.Bruce McNiven speaks during the openingceremoniesThe heavyweight athletic eventsare always a favourite with thespectators. The nine competitorswere Greg Hadley, ChristoffWand, Harry MacDonald, MarcMorin, Mark Palmer, WarrenTrask, Craig Hurford, GlennDewtie, and Kirk Hurford. Eachathlete competed in seven events:putting the stone (shot put); the 22pound hammer throw; the 28pound weight throw, the 56 poundweight distance throw, the 56pound weight height throw, thesheaf toss, and finally the dramatictossing the caber. Greg Hadleyplaced first in four of thosedisciplines and took the overalltrophy for the day.The pipe bands put on their usualspectacular display at the openingand closing ceremonies. The sightof nine hundred musicians on thefield performing together is a trulymoving event. Their competitivemedleys demonstrated some of thebest pipe band musicalperformances possible. For manypeople bagpipes are a ‘love/hate’situation; but if you hear thesebands play it quickly turns to a‘love’ only affair.In the Grade 2 competition, theGlengarry Pipe Band placed first,the Maple Ridge Pipe Band placedsecond and the Dartmouth &District Pipe Band placed third.In the Grade 3 competition, the St.Andrew’s Society of WinnipegPipe Band placed first, the City ofCharleston Police Pipes & Drumsplaced second and the DurhamRegional Police Pipe Band, placedthird.In the Grade 4 competition, theDartmouth Jr. Pipe & Drum Bandplaced first, the Guilford &Glencoe District Juvenile PipeBand placed second (while alsowinning the Best Base award) andthe New Hampshire School ofScottish Arts placed third.In addition to the competitiveevents, there were alsodemonstrations of Scottish fiddleplaying and more than 60boutiques selling everything fromhaggis and kilts to hamburgers andMontreal smoked meatsandwiches. The refreshment tentoffers a number of imported ales aswell as domestic brews and handclapping, foot stomping music allafternoon to go along with yourcool beverage.The Highland games are always areal family event. The kiddies’corner featured inflated bouncerides, pony rides and otheractivities, all free of charge anddesigned especially for them.The Games were organized by theMontreal Highland Games Society,and over 160 volunteers helped tomake the event the enjoyablesuccess that it was. The ongoingsupport of the St. Andrew’sSociety, as a lead sponsor, wasgreatly appreciated again this year.Next year’s event will take placeon Sunday, August 6 th , and wehope to see you there.Kirk Johnstone, ChairmanMontreal Highland Games SocietyThe Journal of the St. Andrew’s Society of Montreal, September 2005, Page 4.

Chieftains of the Day: Okill Stuart, representing the veterans, and Rick Peterson of CJADfire the 78 th Fraser’s cannon during the opening ceremoniesThe massed bands enter the field during the opening ceremoniesThe Journal of the St. Andrew’s Society of Montreal, September 2005, Page 6.

esulted from the settlement grantbestowed in England upon the Earlof Selkirk. He was given a crowngrant of land by the Red River inthe present Manitoba, land whichhad been the domain of theMontreal merchants for a quarterof a century. Much rivalry ensued;fights and even bloodshed resultedbetween the two factions in thewest and the old Hudson’s BayCompany, in which the noble Earlfrom Scotland was a largeshareholder, began to competestrongly for the furs of the Indians.Profits dwindled to such an extentthat the obvious answer was for thetwo great companies to jointogether. The union of the NorthWest Company with the Hudson’sBay Company took place in 1821,with George Simpson as the firstresident Governor in Canada of theunited companies.Simpson was another fascinatingScot of strong character whosettled at Montreal and left hisimprint on the city and, indeed,Canada as a whole. He, too, camefrom the Highlands near Culloden;in fact, he was a descendant in thefifth generation from DuncanForbes of Culloden. Born in 1789,the son of George Simpson and anunknown mother, he was broughtup by his clergyman grandfather,the Reverend Thomas Simpson,whose second wife was IsobelMackenzie, a granddaughter ofLord President Forbes.Incidentally, this Scottish padremust have been quite a man - hehad twenty children by his firstwife and twelve by the Mackenzie!After some business experience inLondon, young George Simpsoncame to Canada in 1820 as a localGovernor of the Hudson’s BayCompany. For forty years as theCompany’s head in North Americahe ruled a vast domain whichcomprised fourteen of the presentstates of the American Union andall of the present Canada exceptfor the Maritimes and a narrowstrip along the St. Lawrence River.In his day, under his jurisdiction,there were one hundred and ten ofthe Company’s forts, stretchingacross the Continent, down toSouthern California and across thePacific to the Philippine Islandsand Siberia. During hisgovernorship Simpson travelled100,000 miles by canoe, sitting instate wearing his beaver top hat,with his personal piper, ColinFraser, in Highland costume besidehim, ready to pipe the Governorashore and to his inspection of afort. In alternate years Simpsontravelled from Montreal his innerand outer circle, the former northto Hudson’s Bay and west to FortGarry, the present-day Winnipeg;the latter even across the PacificOcean. He was the first man tojourney overland right around theworld. Sir George Simpson, as hebecame, was known as "The LittleEmperor of the North", a fiery,short, imperious, red-headed Scot.At Montreal his home was atLachine, where there is now aconvent and opposite the little furpost which still stands and fromwhich the cavalcade of canoesannually left for the west via theOttawa River, Lake Nipissing,French River to Sault Ste. Marieand the head of Lake Superior.Simpson’s country home was thewhole of Dorval Island but he alsoowned property on the side ofMount Royal, as a result of whichwe now have Simpson Street. Healso built the terrace of greystoneresidences on the north side ofSherbrooke Street betweenMcTavish and Peel Streets, whichhe named "the Prince of WalesTerrace", in honour of the visit ofthat Heir to the Throne whobecame King Edward VII. (OtherScots who lived there for manyyears were Principal Sir WilliamPeterson of McGill, Sir WilliamMacdonald the tobacco millionaireand Robert Lindsay).Sir George Simpson (Oregon HistoricalQuarterly, Winter 2003)Sir George Simpson’s closestfriend was a son of the Chief ofClan McTavish, John GeorgeMcTavish, one of the winteringpartners of the North WestCompany who later became ChiefFactor of the Hudson’s BayCompany at the Lake of the TwoMountains. They met on the shipwhen Simpson came out in 1820.This McTavish was a doughtyScottish warrior. During the Warof 1812 he crossed the continentby canoe flying the British Flagand captured John Jacob Astor’sfur post, Astoria, on the PacificCoast. It is intriguing to note howpatriotic these Highland Jacobitesbecame during that war, even ifthey and their families had come toCanada to avoid service in theEnglish Army during theNapoleonic Period. Take, forexample, the case of John Ogilviewho had a country estate nearCapitulation Cottage. When thenews of Nelson’s death reachedMontreal he and other local Scotswere prominent on the committeewhich commissioned the NelsonMonument to be made in Englandand had it erected on Notre DameStreet close by the Chateau deRamezay, the first publicThe Journal of the St. Andrew’s Society of Montreal, September 2005, Page 8.

monument in the British Empire tothe great fighting admiral. At thesame time Ogilvie named hisestate "Trafalgar" and erected atower on it just west of the presentCote des Neiges. Each year hefired a cannon salute from the topof the tower on the anniversary ofthe sea battle. Because of this earlyOgilvie estate we now have"Trafalgar Avenue". Today werefer to the hill and district west ofMount Royal as "Westmount" buton old plans and maps that hill isshown as "Mount Trafalgar".Another Highland Scot who was acontemporary of Simpson’s in theHudson’s Bay Company but in amuch more junior capacity, wasthe Donald Smith I have alreadymentioned. Smith came to Canadain 1837, serving for many years atvarious of the Company’s posts inthe north and west before he, too,became Governor. His home inMontreal was on Dorchester StreetWest, near Atwater Avenue. For alengthy period Donald Smithrepresented Montreal inParliament; before he died he wasa Peer of the Realm and Canada’sHigh Commissioner in London.It was undoubtedly these earlyScots in the fur trade who putMontreal on the business map ofthe world. But as they prosperedhere others from Scotland joinedthem and also prospered in otherbranches of business which theystarted. One Montreal industrywhich has always fascinated mewas that of flour milling. It, too,goes back to the earliest days ofMontreal under the British flag.For nearly two centuries it hasbeen closely identified with thename of Ogilvie. In 1800Archibald Ogilvie, with his wife,Agnes Watson, and their threesons, came to Canada. TheWatsons came to Montreal evenearlier, in fact, during 1779, and Isuspect must have had somethingto do with the milling of flour inthe Old Country. In any event, inthe early part of the 19 th centuryAgnes Ogilvie’s nephews, Robertand William Watson, were in turnChief Flour Inspectors of the Portof Montreal. Robert Watson wasassassinated by a wild Irishman in1827 but his brother became one ofthe leading personalities of histime in Montreal. ArchibaldOgilvie, after farming for awhile,built a flour mill near Quebec in1801 but it was his grandson,Alexander Walker Ogilvie, whowas the real founder of the bigmilling industry of Canada. He, attwenty-two years of age, becamethe partner of his uncle, JamesGoudie (whose wife was anOgilvie) in a flour mill at Montrealin the earlier years of the 19 thcentury. I have been told this millwas the stone windmill at theLachine end of the Lower LachineRoad, remnants of which still standnear the old Lasalle House. In1855 A. W. Ogilvie and hisbrother, John, formed A.W.Ogilvie & Company, a flourmillingpartnership, adding anotherbrother, the first William WatsonOgilvie, five years later. Thesefirms built mills at Montreal and atWinnipeg, and garnered theirwheat from the fast-growingprairies. When W.W. Ogilviebecame the head of these flourmillinginterests they were thegreatest in the world under oneman’s control. His home"Rosemount" at the head ofSimpson Street (it is now the PercyWalters Park) he bought fromanother outstanding Scot, Sir JohnRose, Bart., the first second-incommandof our local BlackWatch Regiment and Minister ofFinance in the first DominionGovernment. After thirty years inCanada, Rose returned to Britainand became an outstanding bankerin the Anglo-American firm ofMorton, Rose and Company.W. W. Ogilvie’s home “Rosemount” as itappeared in 1894 (McCord Museum, II-105753.My grandfather, MatthewHutchison the curler, succeededthe Watsons as Chief FlourInspector of the Port of Montreal.The flour inspectorship was one ofthe top jobs at Montreal in thosedays, bringing to the inspector$15,000 a year in fees, a no meansalary one hundred years ago in thedays of no income taxes. As aresult, it became a governmentpatronage appointment. When SirJohn A. Macdonald’s governmentfell as a result of the C.P.R.Scandal, Matthew Hutchison losthis lucrative appointment and hethen joined his Ogilvie brothers-inlawin the new flour-millingpartnership of Ogilvie &Hutchison, which built a mill atGoderich, Ontario, MatthewHutchison moving there to run it.His home in Montreal had been atthe top of Beaver Hall Hill (wherethe Dupont Building now stands),which was then in the country. Itwas there my father was born. Thedistrict attracted MatthewHutchison, as it had his father,James Hutchison, before him.Matthew Hutchison was offeredhalf of the present DominionSquare and the whole of theWindsor Hotel, Canadian ImperialBank of Commerce and LaurentianHotel properties for $500; he wasinclined to buy. But he consultedA. W. Ogilvie who said to him:"Don’t be a damn fool - the citywill never grow out that far!”James Hutchison had come out toMontreal from Scotland in 1833 toThe Journal of the St. Andrew’s Society of Montreal, September 2005, Page 9.

farm near St. Laurent - that farmwas sold for $3,000; it waseventually bought by the C.N.R.for a million dollars. JamesHutchison later had a farm whichran over Mount Royal to the eastof the McTavish / McGillproperties which accounts for thename of Hutchison Street.As the furs from the North Westaccumulated in the warehouses atMontreal and Quebec; as the wheatfrom the Prairies and UpperCanada came to the mills of theOgilvies at Winnipeg, Goderichand Montreal to be turned intoflour; as other products weregrown or manufactured in theCanadas, ships were needed tocarry them overseas and to bringback needed goods manufacturedabroad. One of the earliest Scots atMontreal to meet this need wasJames Miller - his sister was thewife of the previously mentionedJames Hutchison. Immediatelyafter the Napoleonic Period thesailing ships of James Miller &Co. were plying regularly betweenMontreal and Glasgow, and morevessels were being built in Canadaby the firm. Miller was animportant figure of the businessworld at Montreal, Chairman ofthe Committee of Trade whichlater became the Board of Trade,and holding other public offices.His home was just outside theCity’s walls, facing the Haymarketat the foot of Beaver Hall Hill;today his property is appropriatelythe headquarters of CanadaSteamships on Victoria Square.There through the week MatthewHutchison, as a boy, lived with hisuncle Miller while attending Dr.Black’s school. The Scottishladdies were not pampered in thosedays - at weekends young Matthewwalked in and out to the familyfarm at St. Laurent.One of Miller’s sea captains wasAlexander Allan. On one of histrips to Montreal he spoke to Mr.Miller about his son, Hugh, justfinishing school in Scotland, andthe skipper was advised to bringthe lad out on his next voyage.Hugh Allan came in 1826 and soonsettled down as a clerk in theshipping firm which had becomeMiller, Edmonstone & Co. Allan,before long, became its chief clerk.When Miller died in 1838 hisestate was bought out byEdmonstone and young Allan. Indue course Edmonstone, Allan &Co. became a partnership of HughAllan and his brother, Andrew;still later it was the AllanSteamships which eventually wassuch a substantial part of CanadianPacific Steamships.“Ravenscrag” (L'Opinion publique, vol. 3,no. 50, December 1872), p.595)Hugh Allan prospered mightily,became Sir Hugh and built himselfa baronial castle "Ravenscrag" onhis property on the slopes ofMount Royal - that property hadbeen part of the earlier SimonMcTavish and James Hutchisonlands. Sir Hugh, no doubt, was aruthless old tycoon. He built astraight stonewall along the westside of his property, ignoring thefact that at the back was a semicircularbit, part of a reservedsection around the SimonMcTavish Monument. TheMcTavish heirs, then living in theUnited States. learned of thisencroachment, sued Sir Hugh andthe latter was obliged to tear downpart of his expensive wall whichwas replaced by a semi-circularwooden fence. It is curious whathappens as the years go by. WhenSir Hugh’s son, Sir Montagu, gave"Ravenscrag" to The RoyalVictoria Hospital as a memorial tohis father, I was the lawyer whoprepared the deed of donation. Asit was about to be signed, Iaccompanied Sir Montagu Allanone Sunday morning on his lasttour of his family property. In oneof the rooms was an oil painting ofthe sea captain grandfather, besideit another of their senior "partner",James Miller. In the grounds, Ipointed out the circular fence andtold Sir Montagu its story which hehad never known. Today"Ravenscrag" has forgotten its pastglories of luxurious socialgatherings and is the very modernAllan Memorial Institute ofPsychiatry.Another early need in theprosperous growing businessworld of the early Scots atMontreal was a banking facility.Here again the Scots led the way.In 1817 the Bank of Montreal wasestablished, with many Scottishnames amongst the incorporators:McTavish, McGillivray, Stewart,Leslie, MacKenzie, Macdougall,Paterson, James Miller and others.One of its outstanding earlypresidents was Peter McGill whobecame Mayor of Montreal,Speaker of the Legislative Council,Chairman of the first railway inCanada and goodness knows whatelse. McGill Street downtown isnamed for him, in spite of the factthat "McGill" was not his realname. He was actually PeterMcCutcheon but changed his namewhen he became the heir of theHonourable John McGill ofToronto. One recalls so many ofScottish birth or descent who havedirected Canada’s oldest bank:Lord Mount Stephen; his cousin,Lord Strathcona; R. B. Angus; SirGeorge A. Drummond; Sir EdwardThe Journal of the St. Andrew’s Society of Montreal, September 2005, Page 10.

Clouston; Sir Charles Gordon; andmany others.Still later, but much nearer ourown time, came the two greatrailways, the Grand Trunk and theCanadian Pacific. Again one seesmany of these same Scots largelyresponsible for building thesenetworks of rail lines across theContinent: George Simpson, J. G.McTavish and William Watsonamong the original incorporatorsof the G.T.R.; in the C.P.R.,Donald Smith, George Stephen, R.B. Angus, Duncan McIntyre andother local Scots.When the Scots prospered inbusiness it was natural that theyshould also be primarilyresponsible for setting up otherlocal amenities of a social,religious, educational and publichealth character. It is notsurprising, therefore, that theirRoyal Montreal Curling Club isthe oldest on the Continent; thatthe Royal Montreal Golf Club alsoclaims to be the oldest in NorthAmerica; that the first ProtestantChurch in Montreal was the St.Gabriel’s Church of these earlyScots; that the St. Andrew’sSociety of Montreal goes back to1835; that our great localuniversity bears the name of itsoriginal benefactor, James McGillthe fur trader; that the oldestProtestant English-speaking schoolfor girls was founded as theTrafalgar Institute by a DonaldRoss who had acquired part of theformer Trafalgar / Ogilvie propertyand left it to start the school; thatthe oldest Highland Regiment ofthe British Commonwealth outsideScotland is our local Black Watch;and that so many Scottish namesappear among the incorporatorsand down the years as benefactors,directors and officers of our twogreat local public hospitals, theMontreal General and The RoyalVictoria. Truly we can agree withHis Excellency, The GovernorGeneral in rendering tribute to theScots of Montreal for what theyhave contributed in thedevelopment of this City and ofCanada. You of this ancientCurling Club should be proud ofthe fact that the names of so manyof these Scots appear on your rollsas former members.Colonel Paul P. HutchisonMarch 23, 1963WEB SITE: FIRST FOOTThe web site describes itself asfollows:FirstFoot.com is Scotland'shumour site. Taking ourselvesseriously is not what we do best.Within this site you will findarticles on Scottish news andpolitics, Scottish history andculture, Scottish football,Scotland's genealogy, Scottish jokeof the day and Scottish quotations.And none of it is serious. OK, wetold a lie, there is one serious page.And after you've consumed all ofthat, there is always Uncle CJ, thesage of Govan, our very ownScottish agony aunt.We also have a comprehensivedictionary of Scottish slang, adatabase of Scottish proverbs,articles on Bad Scottish Pop Musicand Good Scottish Pop Music,Scottish Parliamentary reports,Great Scotsmen and Great ScotsWomen and the Scottishinventions that didn't quite hit thespot.There is also Scotland's mostirreverent community discussionboard, ecards from Scotland, andPaw Broon, once the manager ofthe Scottish national football teamand now a respected commentator.And once you've picked yourselfoff the floor and stopped laughing,you can visit the best wee shop inScotland, with a wide selection ofScottish books, Scottish CD's,Scottish gifts and Scottish T-shirts.The Journal of the St. Andrew’s Society of Montreal, September 2005, Page 11.

WORLD RECORD SET ATTHE HIGHLAND DANCECANADIAN CHAMPIONSHIPJuly 10 th - 14 th was a very busytime at the Charles V. KeatingMillennium Centre in Antigonish,Nova Scotia as over eight hundreddancers from Canada, UnitedStates, and the United Kingdomgathered for the annual ScotdanceCanada Championship series.The organizers are to becongratulated on a very well runcompetition in spite of a rockystart. Heavy fog in Halifax duringthe week had many of the judges,teachers and competitors strandedat various airports in Canada andUnited States. To make mattersworse, the town of Antigonish hadissued a boil water alert.Foretunately, all problems hadbeen overcome by Mondaymorning and everyone was readyfor four days of seriouscompetition.Although we only had a fewcompetitors from MontrealHighland Dancing, they won anumber of medals and one trophy.In the pre-championship series,Wendy Johnstone received a 4 th inher Seann Triubhas and HeatherBremner received a 5 th in her Flingand a 6 th in her Sword and Reelrespectively.In the Beginner category, MaximeLangevin received a 1 st in hisFling, 2 nd in the Sword and a 3 rd inthe Seann Triubhas. In the nationaldances he received a 3 rd in the Liltand a 1 st in the Flora and won thetrophy in that division.In the Novice category, GenevieveClavet won a 1 st in her sword, a 4 thin the Seann Tiubhas a 7 th in theLilt and a 8 th in the Flora. In thesame category Cathy Faucherreceived a 1 st in the SeannTriubhas and a 5 th in the Sword.A very popular event at this serieswas the mass Fling held on thefootball field of St. Francis XavierUniversity where over six hundredparticipants danced the HighlandFling for six minutes beating thecurrent record in the GuinnessBook of Records by more than onehundred participants and oneminute.We would like to thank the St.Andrew’s Society for all theirsupport of the Montreal HighlandDancing Association.Isabel Bremner2005 Scotdance Quebec Representatives to Canadian championships representing The Montreal HighlandDancing Association. Top Row middle Wendy Johnstone. Top Row Right Heather Bremner.Bottom Row Middle Andria MacDonaldThe Journal of the St. Andrew’s Society of Montreal, September 2005, Page 12.

SCOTSSIR WILLIAM WALLACEThe following article first appearedin the May 2005 issue of themagazine SCOTS, which ispublished quarterly in February,May, August and November. Eachissue contains 128 full colourpages covering a wide variety ofinterests,beautifullycomplemented by the stunningimages of Scotland's leadingphotographers, including SirMalcolm MacGregor, EricEllington, Niall Benvie and ColinPrior.SCOTS is available from selectednews-stands and Scottish specialtyshops, but most people receive themagazine by subscription, therebybecoming Members of The ScotsHeritage Society.Susan Cromarty, FSA Scot, theEditor of SCOTS, has kindly giventhe Society permission to reprintarticles that may be of interest toour membership in The Journal. Ifyou are interested in subscribing toSCOTS directly, or learning moreabout this excellent publication,please refer to their web site(www.scotsheritage.net).This year marks the 700 thanniversary of the savageexecution of Scotland’s greatpatriot, Sir William Wallace.Betrayed to the invading English,Wallace was despatched to Londonas a prisoner and found guilty oftreason. There, on August 23, 1305he was hanged, drawn andquartered. Iain Gunn marks theanniversary with a tribute to thefounder of Scottish nationalism.Sir William Wallace fought hardand suffered terribly for his beliefin Scotland’s independence fromher much bigger and morepowerful southern neighbour. Thesecond son of Sir MalcolmWallace of Elderslie,Renfrewshire, William was largelyunknown until the age of 27, whenhe became a principal in one of thethen frequent uprisings against theoccupying English. In May 1297he killed the English Sheriff ofLanark, possibly in revenge for thedeath of his, or a colleague’s loveror wife, and after joining forceswith Andrew Murray, enjoyedconsiderable military success overthe invaders at the Battle ofStirling Bridge on September 11 ofthat year.Now proclaimed as the people’schampion, Wallace recapturedBerwick and raided other parts ofNorthumberland. In March, 1298,he was made Guardian of theRealm in the name of John Balliol,and attempted to muster foreignsupport, particularly from theGerman cities of the HanseaticLeague, while the enemy from thesouth prepared to reoccupy itstroublesome northern neighbour.Sir William Wallace (www.firstfoot.com)In the spring of 1298 England’sKing Edward I, the ‘Hammer ofthe Scots’, led an armynorthwards, meeting Wallace’stroops at Falkirk on July 11.Wallace had a small cavalry forceavailable to him under thecommand of Sir John Comyn,although it appears to have beenineffective and the Scottishspearsmen had to bear the brunt ofthe assault. They finallysuccumbed to the terrible effects ofthe English longbow, which weresufficient to win the day.Wallace seems to have disappearedback into obscurity for a time,resigning as Guardian andattempting to raise military helpand diplomatic recognition on theContinent in 1298-9. WithScotland so divided, and with somany Scottish nobles prepared toaccept the authority of Edward,Wallace’s return was a riskyventure and he was betrayed to theinvader in 1305. After his arrest hewas taken as a prisoner to London,arriving there on August 22.The intended public humiliation ofWallace started the followingmorning with a procession throughcrowds to Westminster Hall, theoldest part of the Houses ofParliament. A crown of laurels wasplaced on his head, a mockingriposte to the story that Wallacehad once boasted that he wouldwear a crown at Westminster.There was no trial. Peter Mallory,Justiciar of England, read theindictments against Wallace who,as an outlaw, had no right to a trialand could only expect judgementand sentence.Wallace was charged withcommitting “all the felonies andseditions he possibly could”against Edward, killing the Sheriffof Lanark, usurping the power of“lord superior” of Scotland,convening parliaments, andpursuing a policy of alliance withthe French. He was also accused ofwar atrocities, killing, burning,destruction of property andsacrilege. Wallace’s only knownThe Journal of the St. Andrew’s Society of Montreal, September 2005, Page 13.

outburst was his denial of thecharge of treason.After John Seagrave read thesentence, Wallace had to face thepunishment that his crimeswarranted. The barbaric ritualbegan when he was stripped,bound to a hurdle and draggedbehind a horse from Westminsterto the Tower of London, thenthrough the city streets to Aldgateand on to Smithfield where he wastaken to a gibbet near the site ofthe present day SaintBartholomew’s Hospital. There, ina public spectacle, he was hanged,but taken down while still alive.He was disembowelled andbeheaded. According to Matthewof Westminster, his heart andentrails “from which his perverseplans had arisen” were burned onthe spot and his corpse was hackedinto four pieces. His severed headwas hoisted on to London Bridgeand his four quarters were sentnorth to Newcastle upon Tyne,Berwick, Perth and Stirling wherethey were exhibited as a deterrentto other Scottish patriots.Sir William Wallace has beensuperseded in the eyes of posterityby the more successful Robert theBruce, but there seems little doubtthat Wallace was an inspiration toBruce, and undoubtedly sufferedmore for his nationalism. TheDictionary of National Biographyacknowledges Wallace as “thechief champion of the Scottishnation in its struggle forindependence.” His contribution toScotland is commemorated by theWallace Monument on AbbeyCraig dominating the Forth valleynorth of Stirling, and by thesmaller memorials at his birthplaceof Elderslie and near St. Boswells.Statues of Wallace and Bruceguard the gatehouse at EdinburghCastle.THE BALL (CONTINUED)Lord Bruce, who graduated fromthe University of St. Andrew’swith a degree in economic historyis deeply interested in theconservation of Scotland’s builtheritage and amongst many otherrelated historical undertakings hasencouraged the formation of aninternational centre of excellencein the practical study of buildingconservation on the family estatesat Charlestown in Fife. He is also atrustee of the Historic ScotlandFoundation and is currently raisingfunds for the restoration of theRoyal Apartments at StirlingCastle. Following in the footstepsof his father, and the threepreceding Earls of Elgin, LordBruce has maintained the family’sclose ties with Canada. Althoughhe has visited Canada on eightother occasions this, however, willbe Lord Bruce’s first visit toMontreal. As a further point ofinterest, the 10 th Earl of Elgin’syoungest daughter, Lady AlisonStewart-Patterson, who marriedand settled in Montreal where sheraised her three children, was amember of the St. Andrew’sSociety of Montreal from 1972until her death in 1991. She wasalso a Minister of the PresbyterianChurch of Canada.Lady Bruce, also has close ties toCanada, where she first arrived in1976 when her father, Thomas O.Enders served as U.S. Ambassadorto Canada from 1976 to 1979. Sheattended the University of Ottawaand graduated from Queen’sUniversity in Toronto in 1987 witha PhD in economics. Appointed asProfessor of Economics at YorkUniversity in Toronto, she laterjoined WTO in Geneva beforemaking her home in Scotland in2001.Lord and Lady Bruce (Charles andAlice) together with their fivechildren live in a 17 th centuryhouse overlooking the mediaevalvillage of Culross in the Kingdomof Fife.If you would like a chance to meetour Guests of Honour in advanceof the Ball, we would encourageyou to attend the Black Watch &Debutantes Reception onWednesday, November 23 rd or theFriends of the Society Luncheonalso on Wednesday, November23 rd .The formal invitation for the Balland other related events will besent out in due course. Tickets forthe ball will cost $175 per personand $90 for those under 30. Alimited number of Premium tables,seating up to ten people, areavailable for $2,250.The Journal of the St. Andrew’s Society of Montreal, September 2005, Page 14.

SOCIETY ESTABLISHES ASCOTTISH COLLECTION ATTHE ATWATER LIBRARYThe Atwater Library hasestablished a focus ScottishCollection that makes accessible tothe public a unique range of morethan 300 books about the Scottishinfluences in Canada, Scottishhistory and Scottish traditions. Thebooks date from the 19 th centuryuntil the present.The collection will be of interest togenealogists, academics and allthose interested in the influencesthat the Scottish nation has had onMontreal and Canada, theextraordinary contributions thatindividual Scots have made to thebuilding of Montreal over manygenerations, and the specialrelationships of Montreal familieswith roots in Scotland.Establishment of the collectionwas made possible by grants fromThe St. Andrew’s Society ofMontreal in 2004 and 2005. TheCollection was assembled by adedicated group of volunteers andstaff led by Atwater LibraryExecutive Director, SusanMcGuire, and Board memberAgnes McFarlane. The collectionlisting can be viewed on theLibrary’s automated catalogue onthe Atwater Library website(www.atwaterlibrary.ca) under thesubject heading “ScottishCollection.”All books are available forconsulting and browsing at theAtwater Library. Most of thebooks may be borrowed by Librarymembers, but some are held inreserve because of their age andfragility.The eclectic Scottish Collectiongathers together: previously uncataloguedbooks from the heritageholdings of the Atwater Library, aproject funded by the St. Andrew’sSociety; books previously in theAtwater Library GeneralCollection; books recently donatedby individuals, in particular JohnMappin; books recently purchasedfor the collection through fundingfrom the St. Andrew’s Society.Old, new and recent titles in theScottish Collection offer a widerange of subjects and interests,such as: Buchan, John. TheNorthern Muse: An Anthology ofScots Vernacular Poetry. 1924;Blaikie, Thomas. Diary of aScotch Gardener at the FrenchCourt at the End of the EighteenthCentury. 1931; Saroyan, William.My Heart’s in the Highlands: APlay. 1939; Waterston, Elizabeth.Rapt in Plaid: CanadianLiterature and the ScottishTradition. 2001; Timothy,Hamilton Baird. The Galts, ACanadian Odyssey. 1977; Hill,Douglas Arthur. Greatemigrations, Scots to Canada.1972; Lauder, Harry. Roamin’ inthe Gloamin’; Hardy, Stuart,Macpherson’s Rant & Other Talesof the Scottish Fiddle. 2004; Reid,Stanford. La Tradition Ecossaiseau Canada. 1980; Winterston,Jeanette. Light Housekeeping.2004; Harvey, A.G. Douglas of theFir. 1947; Mina, Denise. The Fieldof Blood, 2005; Rattray, W. J. TheScot in British North America.Toronto. 1891 (4 volumes);McEwan, Peter J. M. Dictionaryof Scottish Art & Architecture.1994; and MacBride, Stuart. ColdGranite. 2005; McEwen, Ian.Saturday. 2005.Anyone wishing to donate bookssuitable for the Scottish Collection,or the library in general, maycontact the Atwater Library at 935-7344.Susan McGuire andMary K. LeslieBOOKS: THE SCOT INBRITISH NORTH AMERICAA startlingly-blue four-volume setof books entitled The Scot inBritish North America has beendonated to the Atwater Library byJohn Mappin to be included in theSt. Andrew's Society of Montreal'sScottish Collection. Written by W.J. Rattray, B.A., it was publishedin Toronto in 1880-1883 byMaclear and Company and printedby Hunter Rose & Co. Thededication page appears below.The blue binding has golddecoration and the lettering is alittle worn, but otherwise the booksare in very good condition.The total of 1,197 pages contain amajor history of the Scottishcontribution to Canada in the 19 thcentury, including the Seven YearsWar, the War of 1812, governmentto Confederation, education,religion, law, settlement, fur trade,the CPR. There is an index ofnames. Because of their rarity andage, the books will not be in thecirculating library, but will beavailable for browsing uponrequest to Agnes McFarlane orRani Yoganathan at the AtwaterLibrary.Susan McGuireThe Journal of the St. Andrew’s Society of Montreal, September 2005, Page 15.

BOOKS: COMRIE IN THEDISTANCE FAIR: POEMSAND SONGS OF AHIGHLAND VILLAGEThe web site introduces the bookas follows:It isn't very often that you can finda whole book of poems and songswritten by the members of a smallhighland village. Comrie in theDistance Fair by Peter R.McNaughton is exactly that.The theme of the selectionsrevolves around the village ofComrie, its people and places. Thisis a delightful little book which hasselections from earliest times untiltoday. The collection was gatheredfrom many sources over the years,principally by the editor's father,the late David Baird McNaughton,a native of Comrie.Known as the Earthquake Centreof Great Britain, the village ofComrie lies just on the GreatHighland Divide separating theHighlands and Lowlands ofScotland. The village lies on theflat plain with its rivers Earn,Ruchill and Lednock meeting asthey flow from the West, theSouth-West and the North,respectively.The name “Comrie” means themeeting of the waters and impliesthe meeting of the people. It is asmall place set in a sweet Babylon,a veritable Eden and, as will beseen, a Land of Poets.Peter Ross McNaughton has beena member of the Society since2003. The 271 page book isavailable in soft cover for US$22by contacting the author atrossion@sympatico.ca.Comrie in the Distance Fair,published by Jamieson & Munro,1995.DEBUTANTES AND ESCORTSInterested in being a debutante atthis year’s St. Andrew’s Ball? It's aonce in a lifetime experience and awonderful opportunity toexperience an old traditionfirsthand.Feel like a princess for oneevening of music, dancing, dining,tradition, sweeping gowns andglittering jewels. Learn to waltz.Dance the highland reels. Meetnew and interesting people. Attendcocktails and brunches. Volunteerin the community.Ladies between the ages of 17 and23 who are interested in becomingDebutantes, and suitable youngmen who would be willing to actas Escorts, should contact Ms.Jessica Dufresne at (514) 251-8403or via e-mail atjess_blackstar@hotmail.com formore information.PRIVATE RENTAL SPACESFOR HOUSEHOLDS ANDBUSINESS STORAGELock-It Storage Inc. has beenproviding a storage locker to theSociety for many years. Theirclean and secure facility is locatedfive minutes from downtown justbelow Westmount, off the Glen at4840 Acorn Street.Mini storage is an inexpensive wayto safely store personal andbusiness items. They offer sizes assmall as a closet or as big as agarage.Should you be in need of an extracloset, we would encourage you tocontact Lock-It Storage at (514)934 0386.SOCIETY TIESThe Society ties are still available.The embroidered logo on the tie isa golden rampant lion on a cross.These navy blue ties are similar tothe Society’s previous ties, exceptthat the logo is larger and they aremade of silk. The price of theseties, including taxes and delivery,is only $20. If you are interested inpurchasing one of these ties, pleasecontact the Society’s office.The Journal is published by:The St. Andrew’s Societyof Montreal1195 Sherbrooke Street West,Montreal, QuébecH3A 1H9, Canada(514) 842 2030nking@standrews.qc.cawww.standrews.qc.caThe Journal of the St. Andrew’s Society of Montreal, September 2005, Page 16.