User:Thebillmac3/CelticLife

CelticLife is an ethnic journal published in Canada four times a year by Clansman Publishing Ltd., a family-run business, as well as a companion site, CelticLife.ca, which provides regular updates and user-participation features. CelticLife magazine and CelticLife.ca were launched to celebrate the living culture of the Seven Celtic Nations (Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Cornwall, Brittany, Galicia in Spain and the Isle of Man). The magazine was founded in 1987 under the name The Clansman, later changed to Celtic Heritage, to honour members of the various Scottish Clan societies, originally publishing six issues per year. With the launch of CelticLife.ca, the magazine became CelticLife in January, 2009.

CelticLife (then The Clansman) was founded in 1987 in Port Hawkesbury, Nova Scotia, published by Angus M. MacQuarrie, a Nova Scotian of Scottish descent. The magazine has a strong foundation in Scottish families of prominence in Nova Scotia, including MacQuarries, MacIssaacs, Gillises, Chisholms, Macleans and Robertsons. Their ancestors came from the western highlands of Scotland, with a strong Irish influence on the MacIsaac side. The greater family are involved in composing music, songwriting, piping, fiddling, dancing and singing. Alexis MacIsaac is a fiddler for the theatrical show Riverdance, while Hector MacQuarrie is an internationally renowned piper. The family also has ties to Jack White (née John Anthony Gillis) of the White Stripes, an internationally acclaimed rock and roll outfit from Detroit, Michigan.