Glengarry Highland Games

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About Glengarry Highland Games

The Glengarry Highland Games comprise of a progression of conventional Scottish rivalries held every year in Maxville, Ontario, Canada, normally held the main end of the week in August. The diversions traverse three days and pull in upwards of 50,000 individuals, they are the biggest Highland Games of its kind outside Scotland. The Glengarry Highland Games are essentially planned to be an exhibit of conventional Scottish substantial occasions, Highland Dance, pipe and drum rivalries. The caber hurl occasion includes hurling a 22-foot-long spruce log weighing around 125 lbs.

The stone hurler occasion includes heaving a 25-lb. shake shot-put style. The 28-lb. furthermore, 56-lb. weight toss occasions include utilizing a one-gave toss to have an iron square with an iron ring connected. For the 16-lb. pound toss, contenders impel a round metal ball with a wooden handle. The 56-lb. weight hurl occasion includes contenders propelling the weight over a post vault. The Highland Dance are executed as stylized moves chiefly by youthful female move contenders.

Truly, notwithstanding, Highland moves, for example, the Sword move were performed by men over the body of a killed adversary as festivities of triumphant battles The Glengarry Games were first organized in 1948, and are home toward the North American Pipe Band titles. Albeit basically expected to be an exhibit of customary Scottish occasions, for example, the caber hurl, the diversions likewise fill in as a yearly assembling of territory occupants and the different family social orders crosswise over Canada and the United States.

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