Tour Scotland short 4K travel video clip, with Scottish music, of Calgary Bay and beach on the coast on ancestry, genealogy, family history visit and trip to the Isle Of Mull, Inner Hebrides, Britain, United Kingdom. This bay featured in a sad episode of Scotland’s history known as the clearances between . 1780 and 1860. Large numbers of Mull residents were evicted from their villages to make way for sheep farming. Many of the dispossessed emigrated to Canada leaving from the pier at Calgary Bay. Calgary in Canada was named after Calgary Castle, in Scottish Gaelic, Caisteal Chalgairidh, on the Isle of Mull in Scotland. Colonel James Macleod, the Commissioner of the North West Mounted Police, had been a frequent summer guest there. In 1876, shortly after returning to Canada, he suggested its name for what became Fort Calgary. The Scottish Gaelic placename Calgairidh, in turn, possibly originates from a compound of kald and gart, Old Norse words, meaning cold and garden. If so, the placename is likely a relic of Norse settler colonists who occupied the Inner Hebrides in the medieval period. Another etymology cites the Gaelic cala[dh] gàrraidh, which means enclosed meadow, or pasture, harbour, or, alternatively, cala[dh]-gheàrraidh, meaning harbour pasture. The first of these two possibilities, arguably translatable as meadow harbour, has some relevance to local geography: the town of Calgary, such as it is, has a large meadow to its east, and this meadow leads to Calgary beach. 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 @tourscotland #scotland #music #shortsvideo
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