Frank Elson wrote
>there are shops up in Scotland that seem able to find the correct tartan for
>any name... apparently, everry person on the earth has some relationship to
>one clan or other.
There was a mild craze in the Canadian eastern arctic about 15 years ago
that saw Inuit with Scottish connections sending away for tartan
anything. Until recently that part of the world had a steady stream for
more than two hundred years of Scottish lads being sent over to work as
traders for the Hudson Bay Company and Northern Stores, hence the Scottish
bloodlines throughout Nunavut and a number of Inuit family influences in
Scotland. And me being a product of one such trading enterprise.
But getting back to tartans. When I was about to start school in Glasgow
one of my grandmothers took me to get a kilt fitted. Before they would
sell her one she had to present my birth certificate to prove that I was
Scottish born and a Grant. The world has changed.
Rick Grant
International Strategic Communications and Media Relations
Calgary Alberta
www.rickgrant.com
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