Distant Scottish Connections - how to honour it?

[Steve Ashton]

Another way to look at this is to remember that wearing Tartan tells the world - "This is who I am and how I got where I am today".

To that end you are Canadian of Scottish ancestry. So you could also choose to wear the Official Tartan of Canada. The Canadian Maple Leaf.



Or the Ontario Provincial Tartan.



Any yes, ladies usually do not want to wear a kilt because it is simply a heavy, imposing garment. So ladies usually choose to have something made from Tartan of a lighter weight and without all the internal interfacing.

[JamieN]

Another way to look at this is to remember that wearing Tartan tells the world - "This is who I am and how I got where I am today".

To that end you are Canadian of Scottish ancestry. So you could also choose to wear the Official Tartan of Canada. The Canadian Maple Leaf.



Or the Ontario Provincial Tartan.



Any yes, ladies usually do not want to wear a kilt because it is simply a heavy, imposing garment. So ladies usually choose to have something made from Tartan of a lighter weight and without all the internal interfacing.

Thank you Steve, for the quick reply. The internal dialogue that I have been having with myself is that I am just not that close enough in Scottish ancestry to consider wearing tartan, even though I would love to. I know this may seem like a silly question, but typically, if you don't carry a Scottish name, what is generational limit of distance for wearing it? That Ontario tartan is quite striking.