Xmarks photo op at Embro Highland games.

[Canuck]

Lets meet at the Rkilts vending tent at 12:30 PM just prior to the opening ceremonies at 1:00 PM. Take a quick shot, then you can view all the events.
Mudmen will be doing a teaser set at 4:00 PM mass bands at 6:00 you can join me for a wee dram before I pack up.
Mudmen will play till 8
Looks like it will be a stellar day.
Cheers
Robert

[Nathan]

Lets meet at the Rkilts vending tent at 12:30 PM just prior to the opening ceremonies at 1:00 PM. Take a quick shot, then you can view all the events.
Mudmen will be doing a teaser set at 4:00 PM mass bands at 6:00 you can join me for a wee dram before I pack up.
Mudmen will play till 8
Looks like it will be a stellar day.
Cheers
Robert

I may be interested in trying to make this but given the fact that it's July 1st do you know if there will be any Canada Day fireworks or festivities handy Embro? I'm happy to celebrate my Scottish heritage all year long, but I have to find time on July 1st to represent the Maple Leaf...

I didn't see anything online...

[Father Bill]

Other years I've seen all sorts of fireworks all around us on the trip home.

My informant says that the opening is at 12:30 and my dear friend Wilson McBeath is to do the honours. I really want to see that. What if we met at R-Kilts at 12:00 in time for picture and a decent seat on the bleachers?

[Canuck]

Bill 12 works for me.
Nathan just up the road in Stratford will be a parade and fireworks around 9:30 I believe
Cheers

[Father Bill]

int: ! ! ! !

[Carlo]

Bill 12 works for me.
Nathan just up the road in Stratford will be a parade and fireworks around 9:30 I believe
Cheers

parade at 7pm and fireworks at dusk. At least that is what this website says

[plaid preacher]

Sorry Lads, I start vacation after worship this morning and immediately head for the East Coast. Breaks my heart that many of you will be in Embro and I won't have the chance to meet and greet. Enjoy the day.

Nathan Robert is right there is an excellent fireworks display in Stratford. It will probably start closer to 10 if past years are any indication. But for a smaller city Stratford puts on a good display, and like many small towns you are right under the fireworks so they really are impressive. (not like some larger cities where they are let off on Islands or barges far off.)

[imrichmond]

Man! You guys are making me nostalgic. When I lived in Ontario, where I spent most of my life after immigrating at an early age -- in London, except for five years in Kingston -- I regularly piped and competed at the Embro games, starting in 1959. I always loved those games. It was always a great day. The Embro games are big enough to be interesting, but small enough to not be overwhelming. I've been living outside of Ontario for twenty years now, first on the east coast and on the west coast for the past eight years. The highland games in Ontario are something I really miss. I visit family and friends in Ontario every couple of years, but, having been acclimatized long since to the cooler climates of the coasts, I find I can no longer tolerate southern Ontario's sticky heat in July and August. For that reason, I usually visit in the spring or the fall and, unfortunately, miss all the highland games. This year our visit will be in September.

[JSFMACLJR]

I first went to the Embro Highland Games in 1963, and attended pretty much every year until the early 1980s. Sorry I won't be there this year for the photo-op, but here is a photo taken at Embro in 1969. I'm on the right, my mother is on the left. Miss Ramsay is next to my mother, and then my sister Jean is next to me. We always had a fine picnic at Embro.