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Big Muddy rancher

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nr's post about Murdo Mackenzie got me thinking where I knew that name from. I posted of ranch page about the Matador Land and Cattle Company that ranched from Texas to Canada.
I kept looking for a bit more about the Canadian part of the operation and found this page about Scotlands ties to Canada. After hearing the stories about the rowdy Scots i thought this celebration would be a real hoot.

When it's not competing, the SFU Pipe Band celebrates its Scottish links in other ways. Every January 25, it leads a parade in honour of Scotland's national bard. Burns, as you'd expect, has no shortage of Canadian devotees. Chief among them is the Vancouver Burns Fellowship, which was instrumental in erecting a statue of their hero in Stanley Park, a statue cast from the original moulds used for the Burns statue in Ayr. A great bringer together of men, it's fitting that Burns is involved in Vancouver's Chinese New Year celebrations. Each year, Gung Haggis Fat Choy sees Chinese men donning kilts and Scots tucking into haggis wonton.
 

nr

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Murdo McKenzie is about as common a name as John Smith. Our Murdo after emigrating to Philadelphia worked with the Railroad and then later became a church sexton. Raised 6 kids with his Scot-Irish wife, all of them grew up to be good kind folks, a credit to their parents. His wife was a twin but her parents in Ireland were so poor they could only afford to raise one child so she was raised by her grandparents and emigrated here by herself in her mid teens, becoming a nanny in Phila. as I guess many did those days. She met Murdo in church and the rest is history

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Jinglebob

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"She met Murdo in church and the rest is history "

See! I told you bad things would happen if you go to church! :shock:

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