MacKay Strathnaver Modern
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- Mill: Str
- Weight: 11 oz.
- Clan Motto: Manu forti ("By a Strong Hand")
- Known Septs Include: ALLAN, BAIN, BAYNE, KAY, KEY, MACALLAN, MACBAIN, MACCAA, MACCAW, MACCAY, MACGAA, MACGAW, MACGEE, MACGHEE, MACGHIE, MACKEE, MACKIE, MACPHAIL, MACQUE, MACQUEY, MACQUOID, MACVAIL, MACVAIN, MACVANE, MCALLAN, MCBAIN, MCCAA, MCCAW, MCCAY, MCGAA, MCGAW, MCGEE, MCGHEE, MCGHIE, MCKEE, MCKIE, MCPHAIL, MCQUE, MCQUEY, MCQUOID, MCVAIL, MCVAIN, MCVANE, MORGAN, NEILSON, NELSON, PAUL, POISON, POLESON, REAY, SCOBIE, WILLIAMSON
- Notes:
Asymmetric. Designed circa 1952 by Wm Andersons of Edinburgh and Lord Reay. (Letter dated 1987 from Harry Lindley). The tartan features the seasons of the year. Jack Dalgety and a Duncan Ballard are mentioned in connection with this tartan but their part is not known. Tartan Society notes give Ballard as the source of the tartan and give 9 colours whereas the Sindex card gives 10. The Canadian Clan MacKay Society website gives the following information: "The Strathnaver Tartan was first registered in 1952 and was said to have been discovered in a bog in Canada and brought back to Scotland. The colors which are said to reflect the seasons of the year are muted vegetable colours which merge peacefully and harmoniously together...We remember with pleasure that great clansman Kenneth Mackay wearing full highland dress with his jacket and waistcoat in a delightful brown tweed. Kenneth was president of the Clan Mackay Society in the seventies and was a stalwart founder of the International Gathering of the Clans Committee. A seat in his memory lies above the Waverley Station Mall in Princes Street, Edinburgh"