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Seaboard Gala

by Seaboard History Editor | Nov 25, 2016 | People of the Seaboard Villages

Lord Kanyacka, Seaboard Gala.
Gala Day at the Harbour.
Aquatics sports, August 1927.

Balintore Gala, Archie McRae [ Commercial Hotel ] with paper in hand, Circa early 30’s.
Lord Kanyacka, Seaboard Gala 1935.
Gala parade, Main Street, Balintore, 1935.

Jeanette Wood [Paterson], Carnival Queen. 1951.
Seaboard Gala 1951. Left to Right as viewer looks. June Patience [Skinner], Jeanette Wood [Paterson], Dina Wood [MacDonald].
Seaboard Gala. Back Row, left to right as viewer looks. William Skinner [Tag], not known, Hector McNair. Middle Row. Catherine Ross, Annette MacKay, Cathy Black. Front Row. Dina Wood [MacDonald], Jeanette Wood [Paterson], June Patience [Skinner].

Seaboard Gala 1951.Back Row,left to right as viewer looks. William Skinner [Tag], Hector McNair. Middle Row. Catherine Ross, Annette MacKay, Cathy Black. Front Row. Dina Wood [MacDonald], Jeanette Wood [Paterson], June Patience [Skinner].
Carnival prize-giving near sheddie in 1961.
Crowning of Seaboard Gala Queen by Ian Black, 1952.

Dinah Wood, Miss Seaside Rovers 1951.
Carnival Queen.
Carnival Queen 1952. Left to Right as viewer looks. Iris Black [Balintore Hotel], Doreen Ross [Hilton], Ruby Munro [Balintore], ? Cameron [Hilton], Queen June Patience [Hilton], Ann Ross [Shandwick].

The Colorado Beetle built by Alistair Vass and others in Shandwick for the Carnival Parade early 1950’s. [ The Colorado Beetle infested potatoes and there was a campaign in eradicate them.] Sitting on the beetle Annie Ross [Kenna].
Seaboard Gala, 1955.
Gala Day, harbour 1955.

Seaboard Gala 1956.
Group outside Clan Bakery, Carnival Day 1960. Left to Right. Dicky Patience, Doreen Ross, June Johnstone, Christine Vass, Beth Skinner.
Glasgow visitors on Main Street during Seaboard Gala.

Dennis MacDonald’s father [Lord Kanyacka] shaking hands with Alex MacLennan?
Balintore harbour, possibly the gala Dewar cup race, going by the amount of people on the harbour watching

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