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Article: Tartan and pure laine.(history of Highland Scots in Quebec)(Cover Story)
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- The Beaver: Exploring Canada's History
- Article date:
- February 1, 2005
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Robbie Burns Night in Quebec City, 2004. A stalwart remnant of Quebec Scots brave the minus-thirty-degree weather to make their way across town, including Quebec City's Fraser Highlanders regiment, sporting their kilts and hairy--and by the time they get there, hoary--bare knees.
A descendant of the first captain of the cold-kneed Fraser Highlanders, whose legendary fierceness won Quebec for the British in 1759, is toasting the haggis alongside descendants of a pure laine Quebecer, whose Scottish ancestor fled to France in the sixteenth century. The setting is the basement not of a Presbyterian but of a Catholic church, the stabbing of the haggis is fittingly ...