Location: anywhere you like.

• your community rink, the river you can skate away on, the backyard pond, the Rideau Canal Skateway — anywhere!

Send us your photos and videos:

• #TartanUp

• #ottscot

• #ScotlandIsNow

• #kiltskate2023[[YOUR CITY]]

The Great Canadian Kilt Skate’s “Home Edition” is back. Originated as a response to the public health protocols for social distancing during the COVID pandemic, it has proven a popular way for everyone to celebrate Scottish heritage in their own way and in their own space.

Location: anywhere you like.

• your community rink, the river you can skate away on, the backyard pond, the Rideau Canal Skateway — anywhere!

Send us your photos and videos:

• #TartanUp

• #ottscot

• #ScotlandIsNow

• #kiltskate2022[[YOUR CITY]]

The Great Canadian Kilt Skate’s “Home Edition” is back. Originated as a response to the public health protocols for social distancing during the COVID pandemic, it has proven a popular way for everyone to celebrate Scottish heritage in their own way and in their own space.

Let’s get out on the ice. Mind your public health protocols!

In addition to the community Kilt Skates across the country, this year we launch a new kilt skate for pandemic times — a stay-in-your-bubble, pan-Canadian event: The Great Canadian Kilt Skate: Home Edition!

Everyone, everywhere can join: on your backyard rink, on the ODR at the community centre, on the frozen pond down the road.

Send Your Photos and Videos. We’ll use them to celebrate Canadian winter and the Scottish determination to have fun, no matter the temperature.

“Our faces may be masked, but our knees will be bare.”

Use your Home Ice Advantage!

Be sure to include these Hashtags to your social media posts so you're counted in the contest to see who wins the Kilt Skate Capital of Canada:

• #kiltskate2021

• #kiltskate2021HomeEdition(name of your city/local area) eg: #kiltskate2021WPG

• #OttScot

• #ScotlandIsNow

If you don’t use social media, email to us at kiltskate@ottscot.ca.

Oh, and did we say? We love video clips! SSO would like to compile a trans-Canada video from what we receive.

We’re looking for films and video of kilted and tartaned skaters shot between December 31, 2020 and February 28, 2021.

The Get-Outdoors-During-the-Pandemic Kilt Skate:

Where: Any ice where you can maintain public health protocols.

Your back yard. Your community rink. The frozen pond or stream down the road. You choose!

Put on your kilt, get out on the ice, send us a picture!

Help make your community the “Kilt Skate Capital of Canada”!

These Kilt Skate Partner Cities compete each year to see who will be named the Kilt Skate Capital of Canada:

Montreal, #kiltskate2021MTL

• Glengarry, #kiltskate2021GLEN

• Ottawa, #kiltskate2021OTT

• Toronto, #kiltskate2021GTA

• Fergus, #kiltskate2021FSF

• Winnipeg, #kiltskate2021WPG

• Saskatoon, #kiltskate2021YXE

• Calgary, #kiltskate2021CGY

Get Local

Want to champion your own local community? Add it to the hashtag

Example:

• #kiltskate2021WPGBrandon.

This year, everyone, everywhere can don their kilts, wear their tartans and celebrate Scotland’s contribution to Canada.