About the Highland Society
The Highland Society of New Brunswick at Miramichi is a volunteer, not-for-profit, charitable organization. Our purpose is to celebrate Scottish culture and provide an opportunity for education and growth of this diverse culture. The society became incorporated on April 11th, 1846. Read more »
Photo Gallery
Historic St. Andrews Cemetery (Chatham)
Corner of Water St. & St. Andrew’s St.
Protestantism came to the Miramichi between 1765 and 1800 with the arrival of Scottish Immigrants. The first Presbyterian Church on the river was established at Wilson’s Point after 1792. The first Minister was the Rev. John Urquhart, who held services on alternate Sundays at Wilson’s Point and a second church at Moorfield. Rev. Urquhart drowned in 1814 while crossing the Miramichi River.
Miramichi Scottish Festival
August 16-18, 2024
Join the Clans to celebrate the Scottish culture on the Miramichi. Enjoy music, song, dance, competitions, demonstrations, exhibitions and much, much more. Entertainment will feature many talents.
MacDonald Farm Provincial Heritage Site
Opening for the season June 28, 2022 from Tuesday to Sunday 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM.
A Must-See cultural attraction located in Bartibog in a pastoral setting overlooking the Miramichi River. A tour of the restored property, in the company of costumed guides, will take you back to the 1820s when the family of Scottish settler, Alexander MacDonald, helped to develop the area. Visit the grand manor house made of Scottish stone, savour the smells of traditional foods, view embroidery and domestic crafts, and observe gardening and the daily care of farm animals.
Wilson's Point ~ At the Enclosure
Wilson's Point is a site with great significance to the history of Miramichi. Many of the earliest English speaking settlers lived and were buried in this area and it holds the history of our Scottish ancestors.
Open Seasonally June to October daily from 9:30 to 4:30
Recent updates ~ from facebook
Just a reminder that we remain closed today to spend time with our families.
Please enjoy the trails and all the beautiful autumn colors that blanket the landscape of our little gem with your family today.
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We’ll return tomorrow at 930 for our last full week of the season. Wednesday will be our last workshop this year and Friday we’ll have our Autumn Haunting Graveyard tour. New spirits will arise to tell you of their woes.
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For you coffee lovers we’ll have Saltwinds coffee on sale for 1/2 its original price all week long, now’s your chance to stock up for the long winter.
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We are so thankful for all of our visitors even the feathered kind, that just missed being a guest at our Thanksgiving dinner 😉
See you all tomorrow! 😊🍁🍂🍁
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We can’t begin to thank everyone who came out in the rain today.
To our wonderful vendors:
Twila McKinley
Hubbard’s Handcrafts
Greenbear Farms
Exmoor Farms
Maritime Maples
Sally Donald
Gill Wallace and Victoria’s Quilts
Cole’s Garden Patch and 4H Bunnies
Miramichi Art Core
These wonderful folks drug their wares and sat through the whole event contending with the rain and wind.
To Neil Wallace aka William Wallace, Thomas Daley aka William Davidson, Calum Lykan Storyteller extraordinaire and David McDougall our Piper in Residence for wandering the trailers, posing for photos and answering questions you lads are the best!
To Angela Mercer Sturgeon for making all the wonderful chilli and biscuits, everything was delicious and Gill for helping get things under control so we could serve it up.
To Leslie and Jerry Greene aka the momma and Dad for sitting and selling raffle tickets, our fabulous crew Kalen, Andi, Csherl, Eli and Ireland for putting up with a cranky and anxious boss and doing such a wonderful job looking after everyone.
To our Second in Command and Queenbee Marls for being the runner, making and putting up the signs and filling in where she was needed and our former staffer Naomi for coming to help out between stints of daring the dark with the headless nun.
And to all who came to check out the vendors, bought raffle tickets and went on the hunt. You made our event worth all the hard work.
We’re going to take a break tomorrow and Monday to recover and enjoy Thanksgiving but we’ll be back on Tuesday to finish out our final week this season. We’re already looking forward to doing it all again next year… just hopefully in the sunshine next time. ♥️
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