72nd Seaforth Highlanders of Canada - Electric Scotland

72nd REGIMENT
SEAFORTH HIGHLANDERS
OF CANADA
CHAPTER I.
FORMATION OF THE REGIMENT.
Originates with the Gaelic Societies Delegates from Scottish So
cieties meet Application sent to Ottawa Question of Com
manding Officer $25,000 to be raised Capt. R. G. Edwards
Leckie s Report.
IT WAS in accordance with the fitness of things that the
idea of a Highland regiment for Vancouver should orig
inate in the Gaelic Society of that city. It was in that or
ganization, devoted to the study and preservation of the
ancient language and literature which are so indissolubly
connected with the Highlands of Scotland, that a few en
thusiastic Scots gave utterance to the thought that the time
had arrived for the establishment in Vancouver of a regi
ment of Highlanders. The suggestion was favourably
received ,
and requests were sent out to the Scottish so
cieties in the city to appoint delegates to meet and confer
on the matter. Accordingly, on May llth, 1909, a meeting
was held in the St. Andrew s and Caledonian Societies
rooms, when Mr. Alexander Morrison was elected chairman,
and there were also present Dr. S. J. Tunstall, McC.
Hutchinson, D. C. McGregor, C. W. Sarel, Alexander Sim,
J. W. M anson, Major J. Duff Stuart, Capt. J. S. Tait, Capt.
A. Rowan, Lieut. Jas. Sclater and Mr. A. McKinlay. Mr.
what had
Morrison, the chairman, with the impressions of
been said at the Gaelic Society s meeting fresh in his mind,