As I continue to learn more about my Scottish roots in the Highlands, I was wondering how the Scottish celebrate Christmas Eve, Day and the New Year. I would also like to know if they took the holiday traditions to the New World, like Nova Scotia when the left Scotland. I am sure drink was a big part of this, but I am more interested in what a Scottish Highland Christmas was like, both today and in the 18th through the 19th Century. Did they have the tradition of the Christmas tree? Did they have a Father Christmas like the British? What did the eat for a feast? What was Scottish Tradition. I know that my Father told me they put wool stocking up on their bedpost, and got peppermint and fruit hard candy, oranges, apples and few other sweets. Interesting was they put it on their bedposts.

Would love to know????