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Welcome to the CGSNA - Eastern Canada Branch website.

Ted and Louise at Home

Thank you for visiting our website.

As usual, there are few clan activities to report for the winter months of 2010/11. However, our local members were quite active with several events. There were book launchings, visitors to welcome and entertain, and various events to organize such as St. Andrew’s Day at a local pub, Burns’s Night at the Quebec Garrison Club, and the upcoming Tartan Day on April 6th.
Now that the snow is disappearing, we are starting to think about the 2011 season of festivals and highland games. As in previous years, we look forward to meeting our members and encourage others to be part of this great family. You can join us at games on our schedule and help us greet visitors or you can host a Clan Gunn tent at certain events when we are not available therefore ensuring a Gunn presence.
As mentioned in previous bulletins, we are presently preparing articles about ancestors who emigrated to Canada and New England for publication in The Gunn Salute, the official newsletter of CGSNA. The first episode will cover the pre-colonization period as well as the arrival of the first-known Gunn to settle in North America. Jasper Gunn left London, England on July 14, 1635 on the vessel Defense. He first settled in Roxbury, MA and later moved to Hartford, CT where he died in 1671. Upcoming issues will feature Gunns at Hudson’s Bay and Gunns who settled in Ontario. If you would like to share the history of your ancestors, contact us and we will be happy to submit your text to the editor of The Gunn Salute.
For info about Membership, the Septs of Clan Gunn, Officers & Representatives, the CGSNA Store, Society By-Laws, the Westford Knight, E-mails & Links, the latest edition of the Gunn Salute newsletter (a new feature), as well as for other general information, please click here: www.clangunn.us
 

Pax Aye!
Ted and Louise Gunn
  Co-Commissioners Eastern Canada Branch -March 31st, 2011

Meritorius Service Medal Award – 23rd January 2011
During Burns’ Night at the Quebec City’s Garrison Club, Ted was honored by his peers as an officer of the St. Andrew’s Garrison, 78th Fraser Highlander, and awarded with a Meritorius Service Medal. It also recognizes his efforts to promote Scottish culture in Quebec and elsewhere. 

Ted receives Meritorius Service Medal from Erik Plourde, Officer Commanding, Fort St. Andrew's of the 78th Fraser Highlanders

 
Clan Gunn International Gathering and Homecoming Gathering - July 2009

The 16th triennial International Gathering of Clan Gunn, was held in Scotland last July and it was a major success. 2009 was a special year in Scotland since it marked the 250th Anniversary of the birth of Robert Burns, the country’s national poet. During the year, numerous activities are scheduled but the main event was the Homecoming Gathering held in Edinburgh’s Holyrood Park. It was the first time that Scotland hosted such a grand gathering of clans and Clan Chiefs during a highland games event. Consequently, the Clan Gunn Gathering started in Edinburgh instead of the usual start in Orkney.

Have a look at the following photos and see our article and more photos in the sections Activities 2009 and Scotland 2009.
The Clan Gunn delegation prior to leaving for the Clan Convention held in the Scottish Parliament, from left: Todd Wall, President of CGSNZ; Alan Robson, President of CGSUK; Commander Iain A. Gunn of Banniskirk; Edward (Ted) Gunn, Commissioner, Eastern Canada Branch of CGSNA; Richard (Rich) Gunn, President of CGSNA.
Photo courtesy of Todd Wall.
The 2009 Clan Gunn Gathering group photo taken during the July 31st reception at Swiney House, the home of Commander Iain and Aline (Bunty) Gunn, see them at right.
 

 

  

Upcoming Articles

Septs of Clan Gunn
 

We are presently working on various aspects of the history of the Gunns who emigrated to Canada, including septs or associated names thereof. The first of these articles will be about Mann, sept of Clan Gunn.

 

Mann, Main, Mains, Maness, Manson, Manus, MacMains and MacManus derive from Magnus, the Earl of Orkney and Caithness who was killed by his cousin Earl Haakon on the island of Egilsay in 1116. Magnus was a good man and after his death, his people prayed to him for special favors and he was soon called a ‘saint’. By 1137, his nephew Rognvald had him canonized and in his memory, he built a cathedral. St. Magnus Cathedral still stands in Kirkwall today. Magnus did not have any children but he had relatives. In the generations that followed, many were named Magnus in his honor. Our local member Ann Cochrane is a descendant of the Reverend Alexander Mann, Presbyterian minister at Pakenham, Ontario, and she has prepared an article that will soon be posted on our website.

Other septs of Clan Gunn will also be featured: Johnson, Gauldie, Thomson, etc.