Canadian tartans

[Lallans]

'Eastern Townships' is another Canadian regional tartan, one that I fear may be lost even though the lady who developed it had it officially registered. It is, or was, quite a lovely subdued tartan with a lot of earth colours reflecting the natural ones found in the area.

The Eastern Townships are, or were, a traditional english-speaking stronghold inside the Province of Quebec, essentially the area east of Montreal that lies along the border with Vermont and New Hampshire, geographically a northern thrust of the Appalachians that was settled by Loyalists and British imports post-1783, with a large mixture of Scots and also Ulster Scots (Scots Irish) who drifted in from the USA in that frontier-making way they had, and some of whom I have the honour to be descended from. Anyone familiar with that tartan? While it was definately woven by a Scottish mill and in some quantity back in the 1960s era, I have never ever seen it made into a kilt.