Burns Day and 10th Kilt Skate Season
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This year is shaping up for another exceptional kilt skate season. New communities are signing up to host kilt skate events. As of Rabbie Burns Day 2024, the calendar includes…
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The 2023 Kilt Skate Capital of Canada
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One of the best things about the Great Canadian Kilt Skate (GCKS) is the wide differences among the communities and their approach to kilt skating events. Large or small, indoors or outdoors, new or established: each skate is unique and special.
Read More2023 Kilt Skate Season
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It’s been a remarkable kilt skate season. With public health protocols lifted, community events returned. Never in the nine-year history of the Great Canadian Kilt Skate have we seen so many new organizations join the skate family: in Lumsden, Brampton, Moncton, Quebec City, Vancouver and Antigonish.
Read MoreKilt Skate Returns to Fergus
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On February 26, 2023, the pent-up demand was finally released and an estimated 150 people showed up at the Centre Wellington Sportsplex to celebrate with bare knees and ice Scotland’s contribution to Canada.
Read MoreWinnipeg's Goldilocks Kilt Skate
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This year, the conditions were just right, and Winnipeggers showed their appreciation by coming out in numbers to the skating rink at Riley Family Duck Pond in Assiniboine Park.
Read MoreNight Skates: Quebec City and Vancouver
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This year, independent of each other and on the same date (February 18, 2023), two first-time kilt skate cities Quebec City, QC, and Vancouver BC — returned to the original kilt skate idea: hold it at night as a party primarily for adults.
Read MoreOttawa Valley: Kilt Skate Heartland
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Ottawa hosted its ninth annual Great Canadian Kilt Skate on the Sunday of Family Day weekend. That same day, 80 km down the Ottawa Valley, the Township of North Glengarry hosted its biennial kilt skate.
Read MoreMoncton Kilt Skate at PolarFest
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This year, Moncton made the Great Canadian Kilt Skate part of the celebrations of its first-ever Polar Fest/Festipolaire — a winter festival at Centennial Park during the Family Day weekend. Kilt skaters were treated to a gorgeous winter day on the new (created last year) Muskrat Skating Trail.
Read MoreAntigonish Steps Up -- Big Time!
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Nova Scotia: Latin for “New Scotland.” A fertile ground (rink?) for a kilt skate, you’d think. And you’d be right! On Family Day Monday, the Antigonish Highland Society hosted Nova Scotia’s first-ever Great Canadian Kilt Skate, and wow, did Nova Scotians ever step up — and out onto the ice.
Read MoreChinook Blast in Calgary
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After the Covid pandemic forced cancellation of the 2021 and 2022 events, the Great Canadian Kilt Skate returned to Calgary in 2023 with a blast. A blast of bagpipes…
Read MoreFirst Kilt Skate in Brampton ON
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It’s only mid-February but in parts of Canada, Spring is already on the way. In Brampton Ontario’s Gage Park, the ice of the Outdoor Skating Recreation Trail contrasts with the grass as the snow banks recedes. On a day like this, a person can skate without fear of frostbite.
Read MoreConcord NH: Another Perfect Kilt Skate Day
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The weather patterns this winter have been…unpredictable. But for the second straight year, Concord, New Hampshire, has lucked onto the perfect day for a kilt skate on a frozen pond.
Read MoreMontreal Skate Brings Together Families and Friends
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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 MoreBurns Day Kilt Skate in Lumsden SK
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With the lifting of the pandemic restrictions, JP had a vision: bring the town together for a community kilt skate and combine it with a celebration of Scotland’s National Poet. He announced a kilt skate for January 25 — Robbie Burns Day — to be followed by a poetry reading at the town library.
Read MoreKilt Skate Season is Shaping Up
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The winter of 2023 is shaping up as one of the biggest and varied kilt skate seasons yet. New communities are coming to the party, and they are coming up with new ways to organize a kilt skate.
Read MoreHave You Seen That Man Yet?
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Nobody celebrates New Years Eve like the Scots and, in Canada, nobody throws a New Year’s Eve party like the Scottish Society of Ottawa — tonight they are offering their 11th annual “Hogman-eh!” at Ottawa’s Lansdowne Park.
Read MoreCommunity Kilt Skates Return
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After two years when public health protocols forced cancellation of scheduled events, community Kilt Skates will return to Montreal and Calgary.
Read More"Thrawn" -- a Kilt Skate Video
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With the 2023 kilt skate season just weeks away, the Scottish Society of Ottawa (SSO) has produced a video highlighting a Canadian tradition that continues to grow and flourish.
Read MoreA New Kilt Skate Season
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Winter is coming and, with it, a new kilt skate season. New Hampshire Scot, (NHSCOT) which draws its membership from across New England and beyond, told a Zoom meeting of kilt skate organizers that their second annual Great Kilt Skate will be help on Sunday, February 5, 2023, in Concord, New Hampshire.
Read MoreThe 2022 Kilt Skate Capital of Canada
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Well, wasn’t 2022 a curious kilt skate season! On the one hand, the kilt skate family is bigger than ever: this year it grew to 14 Canadian and 2 American cities. On the other hand, the rise of the Omicron Covid virus forced the cancellation of community kilt skates in 10 of those cities. But individuals and families carried on, holding their own socially-distanced “Home Edition” kilt skates.
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