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		<title>How Scots Shaped Canada Into A Nation</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2008 21:42:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Scottish Canada]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[hudson bay company]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[scottish bagpipes]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Did you know Scots have been involved in Canada before most of the world even knew it existed?

Nearly a thousand years ago (1010 AD) Thorfinn Karlsevni was exploring the east coast of Canada with two Scots amongst his crew.  Unfortunately their names were not recorded for historians to discover only the fact they came from Scotland. Some five hundred years later Jean Rotz (the son of Scotsman David Ross) was involved in mapping the giant St Lawrence River.

New Scotia is simply a Gaelic form of New Scotland named after the huge number of Scottish Highlanders who settled there and still boasts the largest Gaelic college outside of Scotland and the only one in Canada.

One of Canada's most famous regiments was "The Kings First American Regiment" founded in 1776 fought in their traditional kilts to the sound of Scottish Bagpipes. It was this regiment that beat George Washington at the battle of Brandywine with most of the regiment setting in New Brunswick. (In 1843 there were over 30,000 recorded Scots living in New Brunswick.)

Although most people now think of Quebec as being French Canadian.....

Scottish Highlanders however should be credited with the rapid development of the company.  In 1799 it was recorded that four of five Hudson Bay Company employees being Scots bringing with them their culture of being prepared for hardship and hard work.  In addition due to their total lack of class consciousness they were able to mix freely with the Native Americans/First Nations and built close relationships for trade ...]]></description>
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		<title>Scotland in North Carolina</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2008 08:38:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Did you know that there are more people living in North Carolina USA who boost Scottish descent than there are Scots living in Scotland?

That is hardly surprising as huge numbers of Scots left Scotland at the time of the Highland Clearances and since then to seek their fortune in the New World of USA as well as Canada, Australia and the far east.  Our Laird of Jura website looking at the history and culture of the Isle of Jura tells of nearly 2,000 people who left the island and the surrounding area and ended up in North Carolina.

However what I did not know until fairly recently when I was reading about the town of Laurinburg in North Carolina which is as Scottish as the country of Scotland if not more so.  For example]]></description>
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		<title>Was Andrew Carnegie The Worlds Greatest Philanthropist also a Murderer?</title>
		<link>http://scottishjerk.com/09/andrew-carnegie-murderer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Sep 2008 16:50:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>TheLaird</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Andrew Carnegie]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Andrew Carnegie Working Class Hero

Andrew Carnegie was effectively pushed out of Scotland by the rich ruling classes because both his father and his uncle were active and strong leaders of the Chartist movement. The Chartists were demanding that the working class people were given the vote and the right to stand for election so they could take political power from the rich and lead to a far fairer society.

But we show here 7 pointers that lead to the conclusion that Andrew Carnegie hired gunmen to stop strike in his steel factories.]]></description>
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		<title>Andrew Carnegie Scottish American Philanthropist</title>
		<link>http://scottishjerk.com/09/andrew-carnegie/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Sep 2008 18:36:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>TheLaird</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Andrew Carnegie the World's Biggest Philanthropist 

Andrew Carnegie is known world wide as being a Scottish American who gave away billions by today's money to charity and other good causes but was he also someone who gave orders to others to murder people who stood in his way?

It is well documented that Carnegie was born in Dunfermline in Scotland and lived a life of poverty until the family moved to the United States when he was aged 13. His family had suffered persecution in Scotland because of their political role as leaders in the Chartist movement. The Chartist members believed strongly that the only way to produce a fair world was to give votes and power to the mass working class by taking it from the rich ruling class of the day. This made it difficult for his parents to find steady employment so they sold everything they had to pay for tickets to emigrate to the New World country of the USA.]]></description>
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		<title>Modern version of Burns Poem To The Haggis</title>
		<link>http://scottishjerk.com/09/modern-poem-to-the-haggis/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Sep 2008 13:56:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>TheLaird</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[The Haggis]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Address To The Haggis]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Rabbie Burns]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This modern version of Robert Burns legendary poem to the haggis gives people an opportunity to discover the beauty of the original verse and an understanding of the Scot's tongue in all its glory. But for those who struggle you will be able to enjoy the translated version of the haggis poem into modern day English.

Fair is your honest happy face
Great chieftain of the pudding race
Above them all you take your place
Stomach, tripe or guts
Well are you worthy of a grace
As long as my arm

and read more]]></description>
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		<title>How Scots Bought America</title>
		<link>http://scottishjerk.com/08/how-scots-bought-america/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2008 18:47:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>TheLaird</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Scots are known throughout the world for their “canny” ways of buying.  Could this be the reason why two people of Scottish descent were chosen by President Jefferson to handle perhaps one of the most important financial land transactions that the America ever entered into?  If not, the most important real estate deal ever done in USA history it was almost certainly the largest.]]></description>
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		<title>Robert Burns Poem to the Haggis</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Aug 2008 18:10:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>TheLaird</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Burns Night]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Address To A Haggis]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Burns Suppers]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Chieftain]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Robert Burns]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Burns Suppers have been part of Scottish culture for about 200 years as a means of commemorating our best loved bard.  When Burns immortalized haggis in verse he created a central link that is maintained to this day.  The ritual was started by close friends of Burns a few years after his death in 1796 as a tribute to his memory. We give below the original poem as written by Robert Burns and a modern day translation into the modern English language.
Address To A Haggis

Fair fa' your honest, sonsie face,
Great chieftain o' the puddin-race!
Aboon them a' ye tak your place,
Painch, tripe, or thairm:
Weel are ye wordy o' a grace
As lang's my arm.

rest of poem follows]]></description>
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		<title>Burns Night Supper</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Aug 2008 17:42:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>TheLaird</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Burns Night Supper it&#8217;s format and theme

Contrary to popular opinion Robert Burns did not start up &#8220;Burns Night Suppers&#8221; indeed the first one was not held till a few years after his death in 1796 when some friends got together to commemorate his lifetime and their friendship.
Today Burns Night Suppers are held all over the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Scottish Haggis</title>
		<link>http://scottishjerk.com/08/scottish-haggis/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2008 16:22:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>TheLaird</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[The Haggis]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[Rabbie Burns]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[Scottish Culture]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Scottish Haggis]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Haggis is probably the least understood but best known Scottish dish. Haggis is our national dish but one which a lot of Scots will not eat. Reason… they don't like the idea of the foods that go to make up its bulk and taste.

Robert Burns our national poet wrote a poem to the haggis referring to it as "the Chieftain o' the pudding race". Many say that if it wasn't for that address to the Haggis few people outside of Scotland and Scottish culture would even have heard of the dish. Even although Rabbie Burns died in ]]></description>
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		<title>Postmen Wearing Kilts?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Aug 2008 10:24:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>TheLaird</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Scottish Kilts]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The kilt is something which I — like many other Scots — and people of Scottish decent have strong feelings.
To us the kilt is not just a fashion symbol although several Hollywood celebrities seem to think.  The tartan kilt is an important part of our Scottish heritage and culture.  When questioned about the one Scottish symbol [...]]]></description>
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