While 2025 is drawing to a close, we have one more event we'd like to share with you! We'll be ringing in the New Year at the Antigonish Heritage Museum, where we'll be celebrating our fourth annual Hogmanay! Hogmanay is the Scottish New Year, and we can't wait to...
Well folks the countdown is officially on! Our 164th annual Feast of Saint Andrews is all set for Sunday, November 30th, and tickets are hotter than a flaming haggis!!! If you'd like to get yours, contact Dan Cochrane at admin@antigonishhighlandgames.ca to get yours...
160th Antigonish Highland Games Press Release and Results For the 160th time in our long history, the Antigonish Highland Society hosted the Antigonish Highland Games from July 6th to July 13th, and it was one of the biggest and best editions of our annual braemar to...
2025 Hall of Fame Inductee - Dave MacLennan Dave MacLennan, one of the top runners in the province since the 1980’s, is a big fan of the Antigonish Highland Games 5-Mile Road Race. This week his unparalleled success in the 5-Miler will earn him induction into the...
Greg Hadley - 2025 Hall of Fame Inductee Canadian Champion enters the Antigonish Highland Games Hall of Fame Greg Hadley developed a compelling interest in the Ancient Scottish Heavy Events while watching throwers compete in his hometown Highland Games. By the age of...
JOHN ALLAN MACDONALD - 2025 HALL OF FAME INDUCTEEJOHN ALLAN MACDONALD THE RESILENCE OF A PIONEER Legendary coach Frank McGibbon was always on the lookout for athletic talent in the kids who came to Columbus Field. He saw plenty in a strongly built boy from Brookland...
Michelle MacGillivray Dobbin - 2025 Hall of Fame InducteeFor the love of Dancing We continue to profile Highland Games heroes who will be inducted into this week in the Antigonish Highland Games Hall of Fame, in this post we feature Highland dancer Michelle...
Clare Kiely Champoux - 2025 Hall of Fame Inductee CLARE KIELY CHAMPOUX From Doll Carriages to Champion Dancer and the Highland Games Hall of Fame One of Clare Kiely’s earliest memories of the was walking her doll carriage in the Highland Games parade. She says “My mom...
Leo MacDonald - 2025 Hall of Fame Inductee Leo MacDonald was teaching at the Regional High School when the call came for volunteers to work at what would be the biggest Antigonish Highland Games ever. The 1979 Games coincided with Nova Scotia hosting the first...
Brenda MacAdam Chisholm - 2025 Hall of Fame InducteeA Highland Games Family Affair The MacAdam family of Braemore Avenue was a Highland Games powerhouse. Most of Evelyn and Alex’s nine children competed in either Highland Dancing or track or both. Kevin and Donna were...