The Canadian Connection
There's a Canadian theme to this week's History Zone and I'm warning you now that you had better have the tissues ready.
CBC Presenter, Terry MacLeod is your host for five and a half hours of programmes which explore the links between Scotland and Canada. Included in that is a special edition of and the story of a Canadian family searching for Scottish links in a quest that takes to the war cemeteries of France.
Lizzy Clark, our Zones supremo, has strong links with Canada herself. They began ten years ago when she took part in a job-swap with a producer at CBC Radio in Winnipeg. That's also when she became aware that Winnipeg had been one of the main destinations for settlers from Kildonan and Selkirk. The city streets have many Scottish place names - Nairn, Douglas, McGregor, MacDougal and so on.
Lizzy tells me that it during that period that she first met Terry MacLeod and it was also when she developed a real taste for single malt whisky.
She wont say if the two things are connected.
(You can hear the new History Zone from tomorrow via the Â鶹Éç Radio Scotland website or on the Â鶹ÉçiPlayer)
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