Presiding Officer visits Canada
Updated 4 December 2006
Presiding Officer George Reid MSP has met parliamentarians in Canada during a week long visit to the country. On Tuesday 28 November Mr Reid visited the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, in Toronto. He is pictured right with the Speaker, Hon Michael A. Brown MPP.
The Presiding Officer was also guest speaker at a St Andrew's Day dinner in Vancouver on 30 November, and visited the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia.
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| George Reid addressed a reception in Toronto co-hosted by Scottish Development International (SDI), Globalscots and The Scotland Funds. |
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| Pictured left to right are: Michael Corish, SDI; Dick Mungin of The Scotland Funds; Presiding Officer George Reid; Harry McGrath, The Scotland Funds; Nicholas Armour, BCG, Toronto; Raymond McGovern, Globalscot. |
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Marking St Andrew's Day in Canada - the Presiding Officer speaking at an event in Vancouver.
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| George Reid views archive material at Simon Fraser University's Centre for Scottish Studies, with Martin Cronin, British Consul General; Frances Fournier, Chief Archivist SFU; Dick Mungin, CEO The Scotland Funds. |
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| In Victoria: Speaker Bill Barisoff (left) and Solicitor General John Les (right) escort George Reid MSP through the Speaker's corridor at the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia. |
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Solicitor General of British Columbia John Les, Presiding Officer George Reid and Speaker of the BC Legislature, Bill Barisoff examine a set of bagpipes dating back to World War 1. The bagpipes were lost during the Battle of the Somme by a piper from the Canadian Scottish Regiment and were recently rediscovered in a Scottish school and returned to British Columbia.
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