Toronto Star

Lizzie · Post by **Lizzie** » Sun Jan 14, 2007 10:26 pm

To all you Canadians out there who have access to today's Toronto Star.

Wonderful three pages of Scottish History starting 1707. I imagine you who were lucky enough to e educated in Scotland would be well aware of all this.

Lizzie

Davie · Post by **Davie** » Sun Jan 14, 2007 11:37 pm

Hi Lizzie
That is wan o' ma first morning reads.
Excellent!
Davie

Lizzie · Post by **Lizzie** » Mon Jan 15, 2007 12:09 am

Hi Davie

How did you see it ? On the Internet? Is the anything in the Scottish papers on this ?

Lizzie

Post by **AndrewP** » Mon Jan 15, 2007 1:08 am

The Toronto Star can be found at:
http://www.thestar.com/

And an article regarding the 1707 union of the parliaments:
http://www.thestar.com/article/170858

All the best,

AndrewP

Davie · Post by **Davie** » Tue Jan 16, 2007 7:45 pm

Hi Lizzie.,
I have over 50 newspapers on line in my favourites.
The Toronto Star, The New York Times and the Sydney Morning Herald are all on line and my first reads in the morning.
As are a lot of local rags.
As my sisters familes ur all Canadians, I like to keep up wey what is going on locally.
So I check out the papers frae Leamington, North Bay, Mississauga and Oakville
It gives you some aspect of what is happening there and the thoughts of the editors.
Davie

Post by **emanday** » Tue Jan 16, 2007 8:01 pm

AndrewP wrote: And an article regarding the 1707 union of the parliaments:
http://www.thestar.com/article/170858

All the best,

AndrewP

I love the two paragraphs that begin "Nor would there ever have been a British Empire"

What do you think - did the guy who wrote that have Scottish ancestry

DavidWW · Post by **DavidWW** » Tue Jan 16, 2007 8:12 pm

emanday wrote:
AndrewP wrote: And an article regarding the 1707 union of the parliaments:
http://www.thestar.com/article/170858

All the best,

AndrewP
I love the two paragraphs that begin "Nor would there ever have been a British Empire"

What do you think - did the guy who wrote that have Scottish ancestry

Maybe not as it's a reality that Scotland supplied a greatly disproportionate number of the officials who administered the empire.

David

Lizzie · Post by **Lizzie** » Tue Jan 16, 2007 8:14 pm

Mary and Davie,

I liked the bit about Canada's first Prime Minister John A MacDonald who said "I was born British and will die British, our feelings exactly.

It was too bad we could not see the last page in the Star, when we were shown how the combined flags became the Union Jack.

Lizzie

Post by **emanday** » Tue Jan 16, 2007 8:17 pm

Maybe not as it's a reality that Scotland supplied a greatly disproportionate number of the officials who administered the empire.

...but, written by anyone other that a Scottish descendant - would that even have been written at all?