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We are pleased to announce that John Fraser, one of Canada’s most accomplished academics in the field of journalism, is to be be presented with our annual Scot of the Year Award at our Annual Tartan Day Dinner event this April (venue and date TBA). You can learn more about John here. More information about the event will be available shortly.


We are delighted that a new book by Scottish Studies Foundation Director Douglas Gibson will be released by ECW Press on October 1. Stories About Storytellers allows readers to follow Doug Gibson through 40 years of editing and publishing some of Canada’s sharpest minds and greatest storytellers including Alice Munro, Robertson Davies, Alistair MacLeod, Pierre Trudeau and Others. More details here.


We have gathered a number of radio programmes that will be of interest to Scottish Studies enthusiasts:
• Photographer Oscar Marzaroli
• The Glencoe Massacre
• The Darien Scheme
• The Scottish Enlightenment
• Scots in the West Indies
• The Battle of Bannockburn
• Tribute to the late Bobby Brown
• Scottish Independence


A selection of Scottish Highland landscapes photographs by David McConnell Hunter


The Scottish Studies Foundation is a Canadian charitable organization established to encourage research, both inside and outside universities, in Scottish culture -- history, literature, religion, art, law, and in Scottish migrations to North America; and to publish historical studies and documents relating to Scottish culture and migrations.

Our present emphasis is aimed at raising the awareness of the Scottish heritage in Canada through various levels of education including the funding of academic scholarships in Scottish Studies in Canada and Scotland.

The Foundation supports an office at the University of Guelph to handle enquiries regarding the University's Scottish Studies Program and is active in raising funds to obtain additional materials for the University's rare book and manuscript collection.

The Foundation also funds the publishing of The International Journal of Scottish Studies and financially supports Canadian and Scottish-related conferences.

Announcements:

The Sept/Oct 2011 issue of History Scotland features an article about the Foundation co-authored by SSF Directors, John B. McMillan and David Hunter and includes many other items of particlar interest to Canadians. The magazine is available as an app from the Apple iTunes store and as a digital edition from www.pocketmags.com. To find out more or to subscribe to the magazine please go to www.historyscotland.com

The newest book in the Guelph Series in Scottish Studies, The Shaping of Scottish Identities: Family, Nation, and the Worlds Beyond, edited by Jodi A. Campbell, Elizabeth Ewan, and Heather Parker was launched and available for sale at this year's Fall Colloquium. The fifteen essays tackle topics such as Sex, identity and Enlightenment by Katie Barclay; Babies, Religion and Gender by Elizabeth Ritchie; Scottishness on Stage by Giovanna Guidicini; The Scottish School Curriculum by Sydney Wood; Jane Porter's Scottish Chiefs by Graeme Morton; and concludes with 2011 Colloquium presenter Daniel Travers on The Italian community in the Orkney Islands during the Second World War. Copies can be ordered at: scottish@uoguelph.ca. $30 ($25 for SSF members), HST included; plus shipping.


Thanks to Doug Ross of Clan Ross, photographs and memorabilia of our 2012 Burns Night at the Granite club are posted on his clan's website here. His video of the Address to the Haggis can be seen here.

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The 2012 Scottish Studies Spring Colloquium will be held on April 7, 2012 at Knox College, University of Toronto. Speakers will include Dr. Amy Blakeway, the Fulbright-Robertson Visiting Professor of British History at Westminster College, Fulton, Missouri, and Ms. Sarah McCaslin from the University of Edinburgh. More details here.

Our Annual Tall Ship Cruise will take place on September 2, 2012. Details here. Video of our first cruise in 1992 can be seen here.


"Eriskay - A Poem of Remote Lives" This short film is a study of Eriskay's crofting life, filmed by during the summer of 1934.

Other films can be seen here:
• The Bowler and the Bunnet
• Dundee circa 1939
• Glasgow's last tram
• U of G's W. Stanford Reid
• Scottish Highland landscapes
• U of G's Rare Books Library
• Interview with Enoch Kent
• Scots lessons for Canadians



Thanks to the initiative of Scottish Studies Foundation Director Doug Ross, the Foundation has sponsored the concept of a "Clan Passport" to be used at various Highland Games. See Doug with the passports at the Fergus games here.


The History of Orkney Literature by Simon W. Hall was published last year (2010), and was joint winner of the Saltire Society award for Scottish First Book of the year. More information here.