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Scotland's Eccentric Isle of Eigg


Scotland’s Eccentric Isle of Eigg
“If you’re going to get sick, be sure it’s on a Wednesday,” my Isle of Eigg tour guide/driver Brian Greene said. “That’s the day the doctor arrives by ferry from Skye.”
Greene was filling in for Charlie Galli, this Scottish island’s usual taxi driver (and only source of public transportation), who was stuck on the mainland for a week awaiting space for his van on the ferry to return home. So Greene, who has lived on this 3-mile by 6-mile Inner Hebrides island since 1979, had volunteered his car to drive my husband, Carl, and me on the single-track road around this gorgeous green area, affectionately dubbed the “People’s Republic of Eigg” by its population of 109. ....

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The wild Canadian boys who joined with Latvian refugees in Deeside to boost the war effort


The wild Canadian boys who joined with Latvian refugees in Deeside to boost the war effort
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Thousands of Canadians and Newfoundlanders in Deeside to boost the Allied effort.
He was just a small boy when he lived through the hectic years of the Second World War in Ballater.
Yet Ian Cameron has never forgotten the arrival of thousands of Canadians and Newfoundlanders in Deeside to boost the Allied effort and how they brought with them such marvels of machinery as crawler tractors, four-wheel-drive trucks, high lead winches and modern sawmills.
Ian, who is now 83, but retains a fascination for the minutiae of history and heritage, has written a new book The Story of Forestry on Royal Deeside – and it’s a riveting account which stretches all the way from the Ice Age through two global conflicts and into the digital sphere. ....

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