A Scottish journalist with the British Broadcasting Corporation was in Digby this week looking for historic links with Scotland.
Louise Stewart, who works in Edinburgh, was here on a study grant to look at such links between Scotland, the United States and Canada,
Her trip will provide the framework for a documentary and also provide material for travel publications printed for the BBC, says Digby Area Board of Trade president Kristy Herron, who was organizing much of Stewart’s visit to this area.
The television journalist spent two days here early in the week, interviewing a number of area residents in a meeting Saturday at Trinity Anglican Church, and then visiting Brier Island on Sunday where she saw a rug hooking presentation by Vicki Graham.
Monday morning, Stewart met with grade 5 students at Weymouth Consolidated School who have forged an email link with students of a small school near Falkirk in Scotland. The youngsters and teacher Karla Kelly presented her with a certificate in the province’s Order of Good Time.
Stewart, who already had spent four weeks touring parts of the United States’ eastern seaboard, has been maintaining a web log on the BBC news site, and her posts have received interest from as far as Australia.
She noted at one point that the Scots' influence in the United States is almost everywhere—in culture, education and politics.
Her most recent post following a visit to Boston can be viewed at
news.bbc.co.uk .
A post on her visit to Nova Scotia is expected by the first of the week.
Stewart arrived in Halifax Friday where she met members of the North British Society and toured the Nova Scotia Legislature in the company of former premier John Buchanan. On Tuesday, she was back in Halifax to meet Premier Rodney MacDonald before heading to Cape Breton.
Her trip to Canada includes visits to Quebec City, Montreal and Toronto.
Stewart’s study is financed by a Winston Churchill Fellowship grant and will include a thesis presentation afterwards to the organization.
The fellowship grants are to enable men and women from all walks of life to acquire knowledge and experience abroad. In the process, they gain a better understanding of the lives and different cultures of people overseas.
