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Thousands of people across the USA and Canada unite every year to celebrate Scotland Week, also known as Tartan Week. Many people can trace their roots back to Scotland, and the week of activities helps them to connect with their heritage in sensational style. 

Alice Munro is one of Canada's brightest literary stars and her work has established her as one of the greatest living writers of fiction. She also has the honour of being Canada's sole recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, which was won in 2013.

With its headquarters in Toronto and stores throughout the country, the Hudsons Bay Company is a well-known part of Canada's life and history.

There have been times when Canada was regarded as almost an extension of Scotland. And it's not hard to see why when you realise just how many Scottish place names and family names are to be found throughout Canada; and how many towns, rivers and mountains have been named in honour of Scottish explorers, traders and adventurers – from Mackenzie Bay and Calgary to Nova Scotia (New Scotland) itself. 

“Dr Livingstone, I presume”

- Henry Morton Stanley, upon meeting Livingstone - who had lost contact with the outside world 6 years earlier - in Tanzania.

January is a month filled with good intentions, as people greet the New Year with resolutions to achieve over the next 12 months.

John Muir, the Scottish naturalist, author, and early advocate of preservation of wilderness in the United States, is being honoured this year with the first ever John Muir Day on April 21.

At the heart of the suffragist movement in Canada were two strong-willed Scottish-Canadians called Nellie McClung and Agnes MacPhail.

Scotland celebrates as it is named one of the world's first Fair Trade Nations.