The Story You Don't Hear About Glencoe
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- Glencoe is one of THE places to visit in Scotland. It's not just about a massacre. There's beauty and a story of hard work that can take you from rags to riches and romance along the way. Scottish history tour guide Bruce Fummey takes you to one of his favourite places to tell you a story from Scottish Canadian history.
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Scotland History Tours is here for people who want to learn about Scottish history and get ideas for Scottish history tours. I try to make videos which tell you tales from Scotland's past and give you information about key dates in Scottish history and historical places to visit in Scotland. Not all videos are tales from Scotland's history, some of them are about men from Scotland's past or women from Scotland's past. Basically the people who made Scotland. From April 2020 onward I've tried to give ideas for historic days out in Scotland. Essentially these are days out in Scotland for adults who are interested in historical places to visit in Scotland.
As a Scottish history tour guide people ask: Help me plan a Scottish holiday, or help me plan a Scottish vacation if your from the US. So I've tried to give a bit of history, but some places of interest in Scotland as well.
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I think the accent has to be my favourite. The Scottish accent has inbuilt inflections, expressions and passion.
It's also good to listen to a mixed race person who is at least as interested in the history of his white ancestors as his black ancestors. None of us really knows all the races they come from. As my paternal grandmother once said "a person is lucky to know who their grandparents are by looks. Women were forced. Women had affairs. No one really knows". As for DNA tests, people have received mixed results from different labs and some people have sent off the DNA of their pet and received back results for a human. A real in depth result costs a lot more than most run of the mill labs offer. DNA ancestry tests are for profit and for data gathering. One in particular admitted selling the info on to insurance companies.
Man, you sure can tell a tale! When you tell a story it's like sitting around the campfire with all the stars shining and the Great Horned owl hooting in the distance.
Wow, thanks!
Aye he's great!!💯🥰
Snap... like my old primary school teacher telling stories. Love it
🤣🤣am sitting on ma doorstep huvin a beer n a smoke lookin at the stars listening tae Bruce lol
Not sure we have those in Scotland!
A'reyt Bruce. Beautiful and well shot video scenes for a romantic transatlantic tale of fur and fir.
Well said
I flew all the way from Australia, I’ve been to Glencoe a few times.
In 2015, we took a side road and drove for about 5 minutes, I stopped the car and got out for a look around away from the tourist buses.
Not 20m up a hill, I picked up a deer antler.
It’s was like I was on tractor beam to that deer antler.
I just went straight to it, as if I’d always known it was there.
What a brilliant find, especially in Glencoe!
Another great video Bruce. I live in Manitoba. Very interesting to see this connection. You captured Canadian winters well. Cheers mate. 🍻🥃
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From someone in Southern Ontario it’s a bit extreme for us, but for much of the country it’s accurate.
I’m very proud to say that my youngest son is a soldier in the Lord Strathcona’s Horse (Royal Canadians) Regiment in Canada 🇨🇦
Come to one of my live shows in Canada in 2024. Shows in Halifax, Annapolis, New Glasgow, Moncton, Montreal, Perth , Ottawa, Toronto, Fergus, Seaforth, Calgary, Vancouver and Victoria. Most of the details are here. www.brucefummey.co.uk/shows.aspx
I’m coming to see you on July 4th. It’s actually called arts commons, not engineered air though.
I thought Arts Commons had several theatres, one of which was Engineered Air. Did I get that wrong?
I wish we had someone like you in flandres, telling the tales of our ancestors
Ah, you're kind
Thanks Bruce. Brilliant as ever. Myself and my friends walk our kids round the Loch regularly and wonderful to hear the story behind it!
Wonderful
Thanks Bruce.Loved the story,and loved the scenery.
I always 'like' on Bruce's videos before even watching, because they're always a treat!
Yaaay
Me too!
Thanks Bruce and to your team for yet another wonderful informative tail of Scottish History.
Our pleasure!
I love this. As a Canadian missing home, the whole area reminds me of Norther Ontario. Especially the Lochan. I'm lucky enough to boast that this area will soon be home for me👍🏻
Another fantastic story Bruce, Glencoe is one of those many places in Scotland that can bring a tear to the eye due to its outstanding natural beauty, I have often said the only country I would swap my beloved Scotland for would be Canada.
Aw. What a lovely story and beautifully told!
As a scot and Canadian I'll say you are tops in my opinion. Cheers brother another great story
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What an amazing story, I am a Scott, now also Canadian. I have a Forres ancestor by the name of Grant. I live in a small rural town in Ontario, the recently built Seniors’ care home is called Strathcona. I had no idea of the connection although it sounds Scottish. You are an amazing story teller, historian and producer of videos. Five stars once again.
Ah thanks Elizabeth
@@ScotlandHistoryTours Lizzie if you recall we marched with the Forres Pipe band at inverness a great group of people.
I did actually......my one favourite place on earth of all the places I've been. Will be there again in August with my young boys (both joint Canadian citizens) making some special memories. Another great video Bruce and I'm off to share it with the Canadian side of my family (wife's).
As always Bruce, a great story about a fascinating history. So many Scots made a huge difference abroad. Lord Strathcona was truly a pioneer and visionary. By the way the Hudson Bay Company in Canada is the oldest incorporated merchandising company in the English-speaking world. And, the mandatory and priceless mother in law references were nicely inserted! Cheers.
Glad you enjoyed it
Love your enthusiasm but the East India was founded in 1600 while the Hudson Bay Company was founded in 1670 although the Eastern Trade Routes predated the Colonies and the East India formal incorporation for a Long Time.
@@slydermartin6008 . Perhaps, but that doesn’t change my observation Martin.
Come to one of my live shows in Canada in 2024. Shows in Halifax, Annapolis, New Glasgow, Moncton, Montreal, Perth , Ottawa, Toronto, Fergus, Seaforth, Calgary, Vancouver and Victoria. Most of the details are here. www.brucefummey.co.uk/shows.aspx
Loved this story very much!
Great story Bruce, as a Canadian and a scot, it was an interesting story
Glad you enjoyed it
Thanks Bruce, appreciated. Wonderful Drone footage & storytelling of the highest standard.
Regards & best wishes.
Many thanks!
Another Cracking Video for a Saturday morning to enjoy and learn a bit more about our Neighbouring Country. Have had the pleasure of living in Scotland twice as a child, Same place as my Dad was in the RAF, so it was Kinloss for me. Coming up next week for a two week break on the West Coast. My fondest memories was going out for drives on the weekend and my Dad asking my Mum which way to go at the junction. We got to see a good bit of the West coast and Highlands that way. Even done parts of the NC500 before it was a thing. Wouldn't want to do that with the current cost of fuel in the Motorhome.
Aye it's murder in the Land Rover
@@ScotlandHistoryTours Not a problem if you are relocating to the South. All downhill going that way! 🤑🤣🤣
Bruce deserves his own prime time show on BBC Scotland. The writing, presenting and sheer presence is fantastic !
To be fair there are probably more folk watching the UA-cam channel than would watch on BBC Scotland😂😂😂
@@ScotlandHistoryTours Thats defo true, i actually hesitated coz i thought you may already have a show (i dont watch the telly anymore) Keep up the great content big man.
I agree, he is very talented. He is an amazing historian, I could listen to him for hours, especially about all of Scotland. Keep going Bruce.
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Fuck the BBC stick to UA-cam
One of our companies ships was called MV Lord Strathcona , so that’s where the name came from. CP Ships early 1980’s
Love this one Bruce! 💓👏🏼
Wow Fantastic! I was just there with my family in May. We actually hiked around that same man made lake & damn, and noticed how many north American species of plants and trees there were -- Now we know why! Thank you so much for this bit of history
You're welcome
Great video. We stopped at the Glencoe visitors centre many years ago. Its a very atmospheric and sad place.
Wonderful story! It's amazing what love and selflessness can achieve, not only for the object of affection but the public in general!!!
Amazing story I could listen to you all day & seethe beautiful parts of Scotland
We've got lots of them
You Put my video Making around Scotland to shame here, this is a truly magnificent well told story, thank you for sharing it with us
Mair power tae ye
I’ve been to Winnipeg Manitoba many times. Beautiful
Love your channel Bruce - I was born in Scotland and we moved to Canada when I was a child; my father’s family are from Skye and I very much appreciate the critical lens you bring to that history and I’ve learned a lot from you, thank you! Perhaps I can return the favour in a small way; The are great resources available from the Metis (pronounced May-tee) Nation of Ontario and many Scottish names pop up in Métis communities throughout Canada
Very cool!
Come to one of my live shows in Canada in 2024. Shows in Halifax, Annapolis, New Glasgow, Moncton, Montreal, Perth , Ottawa, Toronto, Fergus, Seaforth, Calgary, Vancouver and Victoria. Most of the details are here. www.brucefummey.co.uk/shows.aspx
Bruce, you’re the man! Love your videos!
As a descendant of Lowland clearances folk... My great grandfather was one of four live births in Spring District, Tasmania in that given year circa 1845 (one of the other four being his first cousin, also similarly named because of the rigid old Gaelic naming conventions). I salute your efforts.
Here I am in rural British Columbia at age 78, well on after Tasmania, back to Blackburn, Lancs to look after the aged parents down from Galloway, then my grandfather off to Canada at age 15, then my father back with 6 Group, RAF Bomber Command in WW2 [10,000 Canadian men dead in its service]. How else would have the UK lived in 1939-41 without the food, fuel and armament shipments from Canada? Let alone the Canadian army being the only organized military force left in England post-Dunkirk.
Thank you so much for doing these videos. We are what we are. Cannot be stamped out by opportunistic historiography.
It is a very beautiful place . Thank you Sir. I learn much from you.
At 67 and having 1st visited Glencoe in the early '60s, I never knew this place existed.
My partner and I often walk/cycle up the glen from the village to the excellent inn for lunch (& a couple of pints🍺🍺🤣).
We are due back in the area next year again so will make this walk one of our priorities.
Thanks again Bruce, yet more wonderful Scottish history told in the most fascinating way, wish my history teachers had been so easy listening👍👍
Brilliant
Love his stories!!🙋♀️🏴😘👍🏻
His stories love you Betty
Man oh man I sure do enjoy your content, thank you for sharing this.
You're welcome
Catherine Gaskin's (Reader's Digest condensed) A Falcon for a Queen led me back to this one.
Set in late 1800s, it came to me in a bulk purchase. Usually I like my historic fiction set at least as early as Dorothy Dunnet's.
I'm behind on my Fummey stories due to binge watching Congressional Committee hearings, and hanging on commentary from 6 news teams & 6 comedians, but i mean to hear them all eventually.
Thanks Bruce, for being one of my imaginary friends - everything you say is real - and warm greetings to all your family / support team!
Thanks for another well-told bit of Scottish (and Canadian) history. I’m glad to learn of Lord Strathcona’s pivotal place in Canadian history. Although I’m American, my Canadian (Quebecois) roots are much deeper.
Busy guy, wasn’t he. Thank you for sharing Bruce 🌞
You're welcome
Never knew that was there! Need to have a look now next time am up! Fascinating story well told!
What a lovely love story. 🌹💕
Knew this story but not in this detail. Great for a walk with the dog and will be back up this way for our 25th wedding anniversary and look forward to a good walk AGAIN !
I mean Iowa from Canada visiting family and learning about a beautiful love story starting in Canada wow UA-cam is really fun
Such Beautiful views and a great story to go with them
True
Now that is a great story. Thanks for sharing! And thanks to your mum-in-law ;)
Thanks to you for watching
I'm originally from Ballachulish and I was at glencoe lochan 3 days ago when I was on holiday back home
Ah lovely
Lol when we first arrived in Canada in 1958 my father also worked for the Hudson Bay company hauling furs around in the Montreal headquarters. But he turned out to be allergic to fur. But by the end of the year his English was good enough to get himself recertified as an aircraft mechanic and a better paying job, without furs. But it was probably about a 100 years to late to make a killing in furs anyway.
Come to one of my live shows in Canada in 2024. Shows in Halifax, Annapolis, New Glasgow, Moncton, Montreal, Perth , Ottawa, Toronto, Fergus, Seaforth, Calgary, Vancouver and Victoria. Most of the details are here. www.brucefummey.co.uk/shows.aspx
Like yer videos m8 just bk from Orkney beautiful place got the VW camper great for traveling this stunning vast land of ours 😀
Nice 👍
Im surprised i still haven't spotted you, Im always going on trips around my country.
😜They call me The Pimpernel
@@ScotlandHistoryTours hahaha
again another banger production. Thank you.
Appreciate that. Thanks
Great yarn. Would love to visit.
I walk my dogs here everyday .....never new any of this information. Thank you.
You're welcome
Excellent as always!
Thanks again!
It's a lovely place. Been there a few times. A nice walk around the Lochan is to be tried by all. Another good video Bruce.
Aye bonny
You should do a vid on Orkneyman John Rae , another Hudson Bay Scot , found the Rae Straits in northwest passage among other great things he did .
I will check it out
Excellent once again👌
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clicked on it and 20 secs in I'm like oo oo oo I know this one. love that place!
Hey Bruce, how about a video about the massacre at Dunoon. The Campbell's won't come across so well in that one.
I know the thing you're talking about, but not sure quite how it relates to this video
You've got to forgive them after all the soup
Two sides to any story. The massacre of the particular McDonald's was also said to be that some of their men got hold of a Campbell girl and what they did to her reportedly defied description. There weren't enough Campbell's in the area to overcome them, so they did what they did. It was revenge in the only way they could manage it. That said, none of us really knows because none of us were there, and nor was any of our close forebears whose word we could trust. One story or the other could be true. We will never know the real, full facts of much of history.
Well now I'll have to go visit Glencoe to see how much it looks like Canada 🇨🇦 although, I've never been to Labrador, so I'll have to compare it to the parts I actually know, but it'll still be worth the trip I'm sure 😁
It's a bonny place
You had me at Beaver. 😸🖖🏴
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Thanks.
Another great video.
Thanks again!
That, good sir, is a love story!
Indeed it is!
Love helped make Canada it seems. Lovely tale.
Spent some time in Kinlochleven, people there mentioned this but didn't get chance to visit 😕 oh well one day perhaps 😉
As a Canadian and Montrealer, I did not see it coming that the young man was to become Lord Strathcona whose imprint can be seen all over Montréal! Cheers, eh!
Where are you heading next Appin ? Good story to be told there
I know
Another brilliant video!
Thank you! Cheers!
"For beaver" 🤣🤣
Going to Canada for beaver? Did that in my youth. The fleshpots of Toronto in the 90s were full of it.
Thank you
You're welcome
Home of Robert Bruce Macdonald! My Great Grandfather!
Personal comment by Laura Botten: Wonderful Canadian story :D Relates personally to me. Charles Tupper and Sir Robert Borden were Prime Ministers while Donald was High Commissioner to the UK. Those 2 shared a cousin, Nellie Blanche Borden Tupper, who married into my grandma's family. (Borden is the guy on our $100 bill, much more convenient than those Beaver Pelts for currency.) Basically, Grandma played Ring-Around-the-Rosy with Sir Borden when she was 6 at a family picnic. Grandma and her brother went on to the medical program at McGill where Donald Smith built the Strathcona Medical Building. Another cousin was just as influential and generous at McGill in the 20th Century as Mr. Smith was in the 19th. Douglas Burns Clarke who was Grandma's cousin and presented her diploma at McGill himself. Grandma's still with us and it's like touching the roots of Canada when we have a chat :D
Wonderful
Used to be a maternity hospital, my mum was born there
True
Can you go to dunfermline Glen where Wallace hidden in the valley
That's quite a story. and it would be interesting to see, but now i've got to wait a bit. my wife's foot isn't healing as it should, so now we're delayed in our travels.
Ah pair lass
@@ScotlandHistoryTours meanwhile, I watch to learn the stories and brush up on my scottish so I can translate for her when we do finally get to visit, again.
@Scotland History Tours . I just started watching yer vids a few days ago , like how you explain the topic of here. I did share your vids on other platforms, but yt wont let me share your vids anymore. Is that you dinny want them shared or is it a YT. Thing. ?
Oh, I wonder why that is. That's a worry. I want them shared and word spread
@@ScotlandHistoryTours I think its YT just being dicks. Ill keep watching. and.try and figure out whats broken.
the sound was a bit low
Thank you! I was afraid it was just me... and I've always been able to hear Bruce's vids clearly in the past.
Bruce mate, you really should work on the sound quality for your wonderful story telling. Maybe invest in a couple of good mics etc. Sound is often the hardest part of vloging to do well and as a non-native Scottish listener, I need all the help I can get.
I've invested hugely in sound equipment. Hundreds of pounds spent on several mics, several different options tried.
Going by this comment and another comment of yours, it seems like you're asking him to change his accent rather than the quality of the audio.
Nothing wrong with the audio quality. Could be mixed a bit louder but honestly it must be on your end.
I find the sound ( and picture) quality excellent on your videos.@Mark Jones, it must be your phone/speaker system 😀
Have you considered an ear trumpet Mark?
Hoping this isn't the one about me at Glencoe.
I was very young.
Haahaha and what did YOU get up to then?
Gony stop it , I thought I knew things 😝🏴
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In a drunken haze I wance went to Ruchill fur some beaver but was unsuccessful
The Scots have always run Canada, although they only make up about 10% of the population. Even the current Prime Minister is 3/4 Scottish.
Justin Trudeau The Communist is 3/4 Cuban hehe! 🤭
His father was called Fidel Castro...
Trudeau is a French name. His mother's name, Sinclair was Anglicised. Saint Clair or San Clair. The family originates from Le Havre, France. 🤪💙
If I recall correctly, Sinclair's also the people who own Roslyn Chapel. Which is fitting Justin. Seeing as he's in the World Economic Forum. Which isn't the Illuminati.
Honest!
I was born and raised in Manitoba 😂
not really my family have been coming on holiday around this area for over 50 years
now that's a pretty loch!!
Isn't it
That's a much prettier place than the Glencoe I'm familiar with. The one here in Ontario Canada is a tiny little town in the middle of flat farmland. Blink and you miss it kinda place.
Ah you see we have all the best stuff😎
Come to one of my live shows in Canada in 2024. Shows in Halifax, Annapolis, New Glasgow, Moncton, Montreal, Perth , Ottawa, Toronto, Fergus, Seaforth, Calgary, Vancouver and Victoria. Most of the details are here. www.brucefummey.co.uk/shows.aspx
Is that a Skoda Yeti you're driving?
Land rover
@@marlondegnan3524 Poor man's Land Cruiser. 😜😁
"Poked his fingers in other pies as well.": I'd say so, he married a business associate's wife... Maybe that's not what you were talking about, please continue.
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Here's one you won't know......although you , we should. Right anyhow... See before even the famous Glencoe massacre , there was another massacre & it was a massacre of Giants... And guess how a know... Well a know because the corpses of the things litter..... literally the whole of the earth... But ill keep at Glencoe for the time being.. Glencoe is covered in these things...whatever they are... To me it looks like Hybrid Reptillian/Humans ... And before yous all fall shoot laughing..... Go and have a looksee for your self ... Have a look at Google earth and just look......take 5 minutes to just look. Clear as the nose oan your face.
But you said it all, by saying nothing. Lol
Zzzzzzz!!
I have climbed almost every thing around Glencoe but that story is new to me. Well told!
It was thoughtful to plant the tree’s. I am just a tad south of Canada in Michigan. Every time I leave the state I know I am back as soon as the pastures and urban area’s stop and the trees begin. Don’t get me wrong, there are cities & farmlands in Michigan, but as soon as you leave them there are the trees. When you grow up in never ending Forest it becomes a part of you that you only recognize when you leave.💚😊🍀
Greetings from Winnipeg, Manitoba … we have such a wonderful connection to Scotland, and this story tied together so many stories here … Slainte
I feel humbled by your talent for making history come to life, Thank you Bruce. I don't miss a signle one of your videos. Have a good one, from South Africa
Lord Bruce! You’ve pulled yet another historic and romantic tale out of your, er, bonnet! Loved it! Great scenery! Thanks!!
Thanks 👍
Well as a Canadian whose father was born St. Andrews, Scotland, I learned a fair amount Donald Smith, Lord Strathcona, due to his importance in Canadian history. I've been to Scotland to visit relatives and tour the well known tourist sites. Lived and worked in Manitoba, around the Red River Settlement no less. So one would think I should have known at least a little about this story, but no. Thanks for filling in a neglected part of my education, and telling a damn good story.
I'm delighted