Community kilt skating has returned to Montreal, which hosted its first kilt skate in 2015. One of the kilt skaters at the Verdun Auditorium this year wasn’t even born then.
Read MoreSince 1835, the St. Andrew’s Society of Montreal has been celebrating all things Scottish. Traditionally on January 25, this has included the birthday of Robbie Burns, Scotland’s national poet. This year, with Burns Day falling on a Saturday, the Society combined the event with its sixth annual Great Canadian Kilt Skate, celebrating Scotland’s contribution to Canada with bare knees and ice.
Read MoreIn 2018, the counties of Glengarry introduced an important innovation to the kilt skate phenomenon. For the first time, a skate was held in an indoor arena, combined with a social full of music, food and beverages and lots of fellowship in the warmth of an arena hall. Glengarry kept the event indoors again in 2019, and within a few days, a video of the skating had 200,000 likes on Facebook.
Read MoreThe temperature was just above freezing but the refrigeration coils kept the ice surface hard at the Natrel Skating Rink in the Old Port of Montreal. More than a hundred Saturday skaters were on the rink, and of them, 34 had donned their kilts and tartans to celebrate the Fourth Annual Sir John A's Great Canadian Kilt Skate in that city.
Read MoreIt's turned out to be a beautiful day for a kilt skate at the Old Port of Montreal. We're always at the mercy of the weather: last year, for example, Winnipeg had to be cancelled because the ice had melted; this year, Montreal had to be rescheduled because a winter storm walloped the city. But everything works out in the end -- and the ice at Natrel Skating Rink in the Old Port of Montreal was excellent.
Read MoreThe morning of Saturday, January 14 dawned windy and cold. Certainly cold enough to put colour to the cheeks -- both upper and nether. Nevertheless, some hundred people braved the winter weather to launch the 2017 kilt skate season at Montreal's Old Port for the Third Annual Sir John A's Great Canadian Kilt Skate in that city.
Read MoreThis is the weekend where it is dangerous to be a "great chieftan o the puddin' race." Tonight around the world, Scots will honour the great national poet, Robbie Burns. One of the highlights of the evening will be the "Address to a Haggis" in which the knife is plunged into the poor beastie, "Trenching your gushing entrails bright."
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across canada, communities host kilt skates to celebrate scotland’s contribution to our multicultural fabric.
