CNC Has Official Tartan
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Friday, November 26, 2010 07:27 PM
Prince George, B.C. - The College of New Caledonia now has its own , official , Scottish tartan.
CNC instructor Sheldon Clare created and registered the official tartan with The Scottish Register of Tartans. “I have often piped for the CNC Convocation and it seemed appropriate to me that the College of New Caledonia should have a tartan of its own considering the area received its name from explorer Simon Fraser,” said Clare, a bagpiper who teaches English at the college.
Simon Fraser named the area “New Caledonia because, it is believed, the country reminded him of his mother’s descriptions of the Scottish Highlands,” according to the Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online http://www.biographi.ca
Clare said he chose the colours to reflect the college’s official coat of arms, Simon Fraser and the region’s natural setting.
“The College of New Caledonia's heraldic colours of blue and gold show loyalty and achievement,” said Clare. “The dark green represents the coniferous forests of the region. The lighter green represents the natural beauty of the area. Gold is an official college colour representing prosperity. The white stripe reminds us of the area's long and snowy winters. The scarlet is to represent the arms of the explorer Simon Fraser.”
The college paid £100 pounds sterling, or about $159 Canadian, to officially register the tartan called College of New Caledonia with the Scottish Register of Tartans.
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Posted by: Dirtyrottenresearcher on November 28 2010 2:05 AM
Wilfrid Laurier ideas on Immigrants and being a Canadian in 1907.
'In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith
becomes a Canadian and assimilates himself to us,
he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else,
for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed,
or birthplace, or origin.
But this is predicated upon the person's becoming in every facet a Canadian, and nothing but a Canadian...
There can be no divided allegiance here.
Any man who says he is a Canadian, but something else also, isn't a Canadian at all.
We have room for but one flag, the Canadian flag...
And we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the Canadian people.'
Wilfrid Laurier 1907