Communication
President's Message, November 2011
Welcome To Our Website!
'Se
a th'annainn na thaghas sinn. We are whom we choose to be.
The Federation for Scottish Culture in Nova Scotia, or the FSCNS, consists of 33 distinct clan and Scottish-cultural societies. We encourage both groups and individuals who want to support our collective Scottish Heritage to join the Federation. This will keep you up to date on happenings, and you will meet others who are also interested in the music, culture, Gaelic, and fellowship with the people of the Clans.
Fill out the membership form and join with us.
The FSCNS has been a beehive of activity, and all indications are that this industriousness will only increase in time.
A great deal of this activity is focused on promoting and presenting the quadrennial International Gathering of the Clans in Nova Scotia. This four-month celebration of Nova Scotia’s Scottish heritage brought people from around to world to our craggy shores. Chaired by Mrs. Jean MacKaracher Watson, the members of the IGC Committee secured the required resources that produced the finest Scottish Gathering that our province has witnessed in two decades. Stretching from the Annapolis Valley to the Cape Breton Highlands, from the South Shore to the Northumberland Strait, the Scots of Nova Scotia came together to celebrate the Scottish experience in the land where “the Old World meets the New.”®
We have made meaningful contact with Scottish cultural groups in other jurisdictions, and sharing best practices in order to advance the cause of Scottish heritage. The FSCNS is a founding member of the United Scots of Atlantic Canada, and is working in partnership with the New Brunswick Scottish-Cultural Society, the Caledonia Club of Prince Edward Island and the St. Andrew's Society of Newfoundland and Labrador. The value of this working-group of the Atlantic Canadian provincial Scottish societies lies in the dialogue and the sharing of best-practices that will ensure our collective success.
From a personal perspective, I am honoured to have been to the Presidency of the Federation for a another term. My duty is to continue to serve and to represent the Scottish communities of Nova Scotia, and to grow our organization.
Indeed, Past Presidents Mel Baird, Bill Sutherland and Jean Watson have been tremendous mentors to me. Their passion for this organization and for its members is highly contagious. I am proud to say that I am also passionate about the work of the Federation for Scottish Culture in Nova Scotia. It is my fervent wish that this excitement for “all things Scottish” spreads to all members of the Federation. Help support the Federation as it fulfills its potential.
After all, we are whom we choose to be.
Yours, aye.
