Tag Archives: Scotland

Historic Environment Scotland Speakers

The Chestico Museum & Historical Society in partnership with Dr. Karly Kehoe, Canada Research Chair in Atlantic Canada Communities at Saint Mary’s University, present: Two Guest Lecturers from Historic Environment Scotland Eve Boyle, Senior Heritage Engagement Officer, Historic Environment Scotland: Rural Settlement in Highland Scotland in the 18th and 19th Centuries: Improvement and Clearance Andrew Nicoll, Deputy Head of Archives,… (more…)

Eigg Homecoming

For those of you with ancestors from the Isle of Eigg – one of the “Small Isles” off the west coast of Scotland – there is a special Homecoming from September 14th to 19th in conjunction with Scotland’s Homecoming 2009.  Many of Inverness County’s residents have roots on the Isle of Eigg – MacDonalds, Macleans, MacIsaacs, all Clanranald people –… (more…)