Each winter since 2015, the Saskatoon Highland Dancing Association has hosted a community kilt skate. This year, like others before, the photos from the event feature young children at the beginning of their dancing career and the beginning of what we hope will be a lifelong love of skating.
Read MoreThey say that great oaks from tiny acorns grow. In Boston on Saturday, “bean town” sprouted the first shoot of a beanstalk that, given the strength of the Scottish community, should grow into a giant. Some 15 tartaned and kilted skaters came out the the Rink at 401 on a pleasant Saturday afternoon to enjoy the ice and celebrate their Scottish heritage.
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 MoreThis winter has been one of the coldest in memory — one of the snowiest as well. Nowhere is the cold more biting than on the cities of the plains. On Sunday, February 10, both Saskatoon and Calgary celebrated their fifth annual Great Canadian Kilt Skate. Not necessarily with “bare knees and ice” — not this year. But with customary Scottish fortitude and sense of fun.
Read MoreSunday’s Great Canadian Kilt Skate was one of the best attended that Winnipeg has seen.
Read MoreLast year, Saskatoon was declared "Kilt Skate Capital of Canada." For the Third Annual Sir John A's Great Canadian Kilt Skate -- and the celebration of Canada150 -- the Saskatoon Highland Dancing Association redoubled its efforts and drew over a hundred kilted skaters among the 300 who gathered at Cameco Meesawin Skating Rink on a Saturday afternoon perfect for skating.
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across canada, communities host kilt skates to celebrate scotland’s contribution to our multicultural fabric.
