Glengarry Place For The Arts
The Glengarry Place for the Arts is an organization which was founded in 2001, incorporated in 2002 and maintains charitable status. The GPA is an organization which is willing and able to work with others to further the development of Celtic activities in new ways. The organization’s goals include:
- To provide a place of learning for the Celtic Arts
- To provide a meeting place to promote and encourage interest in the knowledge of Celtic culture
- To honour those individuals and organizations who have contributed to the Celtic culture in Glengarry County
- Eventually, to establish a Celtic Arts Centre in Glengarry
Definition of Celtic:
The Celts were a group of peoples living in Northwestern Europe prior to written history. The letterhead of Glengarry Place for the Arts is comprised of the modern flags of the seven Celtic nations, each of whom spoke a dialect of Gaelic. Clockwise, they are: Cornwall (Southwest England), the Isle of Man, Scotland, Galacia (northern Spain), Ireland, Wales and Brittany (Northwestern France).
The Celtic culture was greatly modified by the Christian era, and was gradually replaced and absorbed by peoples from the south and east of Europe. It remained strongest in the most remote areas, for example the Highlands and Islands of Scotland, and was still thriving there when many of those people moved to Glengarry County in the late 1700’s and early 1800’s. Canada’s first Prime Minister, Sir John A. MacDonald, was a native Gaelic speaker.
