The Scotia Highland Dancers (original troupe 1979) from Antigonish, Guysborough, Inverness and Richmond counties performed original choreography made to accentuate the grace, agility, strength and precision of Highland dance. Many champion dancers were included in the...
Janice Macquarrie of Doctor’s Brook, Antigonish County, was a consistent champion at the Highland Games from mid 1960s to 1980. She was the first local dancer to compete in the world championships and was named Canadian National Exhibition champion in 1976. She has...
Sandra MacDonald of Antigonish was Highland Games champion in her age grouping six years in a row. She retired from competition after capturing the Angus R. MacDonald Trophy as top senior dancer at the 1957 Games.
The Antigonish Legion Pipe Band was a consistent winner at the Highland Games from 1970 to 1976. In that time, the band captured two North American championships in Grade 3 and was named Intercontinental champion for Grade 2 in 1975. In August 1976 the Legion band...
Robyn Meagher of Mulgrave won 14 of the 15 middle distance races she ran in her age category while competing in five Highland Games. She also won numerous Open races against women several years older than her. Four of her times are still listed as records in Games...
Melvin Chisholm of Antigonish was a sprint specialist on Highland Society teams of the 1970s. He won seven straight Highland Games Open Men’s sprint events over a four year period. He still holds meet records for the 100 and 200 metre races, set at the 1977 Games. He...
Hugh Bernard McCarron, a farmer from North Grant, was a caber toss specialist who won the Games’ marquee event twelve times between 1958 and 1977. In the 150 year history of the Highland Games he is one of only two athletes to win the caber toss eight years in a row...
James Sears of Plymouth, Pictou County, a founding member of the Old Scotia Heavy Events Association, competed in Highland Games strength events from 1952 to 1997, by far the longest career of any heavy event athlete. Between 1953 and 1962 he won six caber toss...
Terrence Thompson of Cloverville was one of three brothers (with Gibbons and Leonard Thompson) who excelled at Highland Games strength events from the 1930s to the 1950s. Terry specialized in the 16 lb. hammer throw, which he won on six occasions, and the caber toss,...
Fr. Daniel R. (Dempsey) Chisholm of Ohio, Antigonish County, won numerous Highland Games sprint events, anchored tug-of-war champions but excelled at the hammer throw. For twelve Highland Games he won every hammer throw but one. At the Olympic trials in 1928 he set a...