Many thanks to MB Commissioner Michael Mackenzie for representing the Clan and the Society at the recent MB Highland Gathering – follows is his report.
“In spite of inclement weather for the first day of the Manitoba Highland Gathering, we at the Clan MacKenzie Society Canada booth were delighted to both be kept busy all day talking to very interesting people who wanted to know more about genealogy and DNA testing!
Amongst all those people we were especially delighted to meet our newest member of the CMSC, Ms. Ellie Longbottom. With the information Ellie already knew it didn’t take too long to discover her ‘connection’ to Sharie’s database and find that Ellie is descended from yet another branch of the descendants of Red River Roderick McKenzie the fur trader and his wife Angelique.
The second day provided much better weather conditions but nary a MacKenzie attended! We did meet many more people and enjoyed hearing their stories. All in all, it was another enjoyable outing for Mike, our Manitoba Commissioner and President Sharie & their spouses.”