Tour Scotland short 4K travel video clip, with Scottish music, of the Lord Strathcona Lochan in Glencoe on ancestry, genealogy, family history visit and trip to the Highlands, Britain, United Kingdom. Just outside Glencoe village you’ll find this beautiful lochan, surrounded by tall woods, with a backdrop of pointed mountains. Lochan is the Scottish word for a small loch. The landscape was planted with North American trees by Lord Strathcona in the 1890s as he hoped they would comfort his homesick Canadian wife. Donald Alexander Smith was born in 1820, in the small town of Forres in Scotland, he emigrated to Canada at the age of 18 and is known to most Canadians as Lord Strathcona. He made his fortune building railroads and consequently, played a leading role in railway development in Canada. In 1880 he was one of the organizers of the Canadian Pacific Railway, and was chosen in 1885 to drive the last spike at Craigellachie, British Columbia. A regiment bears his name and made itself famous in the Boer war: the Strathcona’s Horse Royal Canadians for which Canada Post issued a stamp on remembrance day, November 11th, 2000 to commemorate Canada’s most illustrous military regiment. He also became Governor of the Hudson’s Bay Company and High Commissioner for Canada before the end of the 19th Century. His wife, Isabella, was born and brought up near Hudson Bay. When they both left to live in Scotland, Lord Strathcona acquired the Glencoe Estate. It is said that Isabella was so homesick, that to ease her illness, he recreated, on the estate, a typical canadian forest environment in order for her to feel at home. The lochan, in the grounds of what was once the Glencoe estate, built by Lord Strathcona, is now an attractive area of parkland dominated by the the distinctive Pap of Glencoe. When the wind drops, the surface of the water stills and reflects the surrounding hills and woods. Isabella, whose grandmother was a Native American, longed for the waters and forests of her Canadian home. However, she never took to her new country and the couple returned to Canada. Of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day. Find things to see and do in Scotland where you are always welcome.
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