GERARDA MACDONALD Highland dancer Antigonish Highland Games Hall of Fame Inducted: July 11, 2019 Gerarda MacDonald, Highland dancer, instructor and choreographer, presents Sarah McKenna with the Florence MacMillan Trophy at the 2008 Antigonish Highland Games As a...
STEPHANIE GRANT Highland dancer Antigonish Highland Games Hall of Fame Inducted: July 11, 2019 Grant (right) competing at the 2003 Antigonish Highland Games. Stephanie Grant (left) presents the Florence MacMillan Trophy to third-time winner Sarah McKenna at the 2009...
Phyllis MacDonald of Antigonish won numerous Highland Games dancing medals during the 1940s and 1950s and was named top senior dancer of the Games in 1952, 1954 and 1955.
Florence MacMillan was a premier dancing instructor who brought champion dancers like Mabel MacInnis, Gerarda MacDonald, Janice Macquarrie and Patsy MacAdam into prominence. She bucked the dancing establishment with her methods and eventually saw her students win...
Dr. Angus MacDonald of Glenuig, Scotland, was named Open Piper of the Games six times during the eleven years he lived in Nova Scotia. As a player and instructor he greatly advanced the knowledge of piobaireachd, the classical music of the Great Highland Bagpipe. He...
Fr. Neil McKenna of Antigonish, was a top individual drummer, instructed three Nova Scotia-based pipe bands and co-organized the first Highland Games Pipe Band Tattoos. He was lead drummer for the Antigonish Legion Pipe Band drum corps which was named to the North...
Scott Williams of Antigonish has played with and/or instructed five championship bands. A fine solo player, he was the second winner of the prestigious Allan Beaton Memorial Trophy. He is a well-respected piping judge and has written extensively on pipers and pipe...
Allan Cameron of Springfield, Antigonish County, won numerous solo medals at the Games, was a member of the first pipe band raised in Antigonish, played for Highland dancers for four decades and was official piper of the Antigonish Highland Society for nearly fifty...
Alex MacAdam of Antigonish was chairman of Highland Games Track and Field from the late 1950s through the 1970s, overseeing the growth of the event from two age groups of male-only athletes when he began, to five age groups and over 500 athletes, male and female, by...
Frank McGibbon of Antigonish was a legendary figure who coached the Highland Society track and field teams from the 1950s until the 1970s. He felt that if youngsters could excel in sports, they would excel in life, and exhorted them to do so. Frank built the track at...