The Bastardising of a Tartan
It is with pride that Canadian Scots celebrate the adoption of tartan into the Canadian culture and like the others from foreign lands the Scottish people are proud to see their culture celebrated and recognised. This interweaving of cultures blend like the colours woven together into a fine plaid woven fabric to form yet another part of the culture with each province coming together to form a nation. Likewise the people of New Brunswick wanted their own identity to distinguish them in a unique way becoming yet another part in the thread of Canada cultural heritage. Nova Scotia was the first province to have an official Provincial tartan designed originally by Bessie Murray in 1953 for the agricultural exhibition in Truro a small town known as the Hub of Nova Scotia located at the junction between the Canadian National Railway, running between Halifax and Montreal, and the Cape Breton and Central Nova Scotia Railway, between Truro and Sydney. The popular tartan design was ...