Scottish Dancing Links

• SCD groups within driving distance of Toronto
• Other SCD groups
• General SCD Links
• Other useful Links
• Dance Toronto (all traditions of dance, including Scottish, and relevant links)

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SCD groups Within Driving Distance of Toronto

• Ardbrae Scottish Dancers Ottawa
• Ottawa Branch RSCDS
• Boston Branch RSCDS
• Blair Scottish Country Dancers (Cambridge, ON)
• Brockville Scottish Country Dancers
• Buffalo Branch RSCDS
• Burlington Branch RSCDS. Contact Sue Dilworth: 905-331-7846
• Chicago Branch RSCDS
• Cincinnati Branch RSCDS
• Detroit Branch RSCDS
• Erin Mills SCD (Toronto)
• Fergus Scottish Country Dancers. Contact Lou Emslie
• Haliburton Highlands Scottish Country Dancers. Contact Mike Turner
• Hamilton Branch RSCDS
• Kingston RSCDS
• Kitchener Waterloo RSCDS HomePage
• London Branch RSCDS
• Montreal Branch RSCDS
• New York Branch
• New Haven Branch
• Oakville Scottish Country Dance Group
• Orillia / Barrie / Hawkestone SCD. Contact Jason Argent
• Peterborough Branch RSCDS
• Pittsburgh Branch RSCDS
• St. Catharines RSCDS
• Windsor RSCDS

Other SCD Groups

• RSCDS Headquarters in Edinburgh
• List of SCD groups around the world
• Berne Scottish Country Dance Club
• Edmonton Caledonian Country Dance Society e-mail: rscdsedmonton@live.com
• New Zealand Branch RSCDS
• San Francisco Branch RSCDS
• Saskatchewan RSCDS
• St Andrews Scotland Branch RSCDS
• St. John's Branch RSCDS
• Vancouver Branch RSCDS
• Victoria Branch RSCDS
• RSCDS Winnipeg Branch

General SCD Links

• TAC - Teachers' Association (Canada)
• TAC Books (all the books you can imagine about Scottish Country Dancing). E-mail: Jody & Craig Williams
• TAC Sound (All the recordings you need to do the dances you love) E-mail Lydia Hedge or call 902-827-2033 (Nova Scotia)
• The Scottish Accent (the best SCD band around!)
• Inter-City Scot
• The Strathspey Internet Newsgroup
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• TheBigCeilidh.com - Up-tempo ceilidh dance events. Sign up for e-bulletins.
• MINICRIB (Charles Upton's downloadable Brief Scottish Country Dance Notes)
• Grand Chain The Scottish Dance Resource

Other useful links

• A Little Breath of Scotland - Denis Snowden hosts this marvelous Sunday afternoon programme on AM740 radio.
• Electric Scotland (thousands of pages about Scotland and things Scottish)
• Scottish Studies Foundation, University of Guelph, History Dept.
• Rampant Scotland (A great resource for links to things Scottish)
• Music In Scotland - Possibly the world's greatest source of Scottish music. Here's where they keep the SCD music.
• Scotloads - All kinds of Scottish music available in MP3 format for downloading onto your iPod, CD sales as well.
• St. Andrew's Society of Canada (a charitable organisation, co-sponsors with the 48th Highlanders of the popular St. Andrew's Ball, held every year in late November at the Royal York hotel, Toronto)
• Changing Gears - Advice and resources for those about to retire -- and how better to enjoy retirement than by Scottish Country dancing?!.
• Scottish Summer Schools (University of Stirling)
• How to tie a bowtie
• Tartan Patterns (Linda Clifford)
• Linking Boomers - Register for weekly bulletins of events happening in Toronto, including Scottish Country Dance events.
• Canadian Celtic Arts Association - preserving traditions and languages of the Celts.

Some commercial links can be found on our Sources of Supplies page