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2. Regional tartans of Canada - Wikipedia

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   Nova Scotia: Nova Scotia (Province) Official; usage requires licence. [24] Nova Scotia's tartan was designed by Bessie Murray, the President of the Halifax Weavers' Guild, with the help of Isobel MacAulay, Canada's expert on Clan Systems, tartans and traditional Scottish wear. Isobel was owner of Bond Textiles in Yarmouth, The Tartan House in ...

3. Folk costume - Wikipedia

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   The Scottish background in Nova Scotia has brought the Nova Scotia tartan as folk wear in the form of kilts, aboyne dresses and trews for Scottish highland dance competitions. Newfoundland – Traditional mummers dress in masks and baggy clothes in Christmas season celebrations; the Cornish influence has also brought yellow oilskins and sou ...

4. Stanfield's - Wikipedia

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   Stanfield's Limited (English: / ˈ s t æ n f iː l d /) is a Canadian garment manufacturer based in Truro, Nova Scotia, with approximately 550 employees, whose company's products are sold throughout Canada and around the world.

5. Tartan - Wikipedia

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   From 1797 to 1830, [274] Wilsons were exporting large quantities of tartan (for both men's and women's clothing), first to the British colonies in Grenada and Jamaica (where the affordable, durable, and bright material was popular for clothing enslaved people), [338] and had clients in England, Northern and Central Europe, and a bit later in ...

6. Uniforms of the Canadian Armed Forces - Wikipedia

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   The West Nova Scotia Regiment: Wolseley helmet, blue puggaree Scarlet tunic, blue facings Blue trousers, scarlet stripe Blue jacket The Nova Scotia Highlanders: Feather bonnet, white plume Scarlet doublet, blue facings. Pipers: green doublet MacDonald tartan kilt Green balmoral, red toorie. Green coatee Le Régiment de Maisonneuve

7. Scottish Canadians - Wikipedia

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   The name of Nova Scotia literally means "New Scotland" in Latin, and its flag was designed as a combination of the Scottish Saltire and the Royal Arms of Scotland. Nova Scotia was briefly colonized by Scottish settlers in 1620, although by 1624 the Scottish settlers had been removed by treaty and the area was turned over to the French until the ...