Agnes Dean Cameron. and Robert Dunsmuir

Robert Dunsmuir: Twenty-four members of the guild recently spent more than 800 hours working on four embroidered panels, each depicting an important local historical figure of Scots extraction: James Douglas, Robert Dunsmuir, Simon Fraser and Agnes Dean Cameron. , according to Times Colonist. To honour the contribution and the roles they played over the centuries in communities far from the motherland, organizers of the festival decided to create a tapestry made up of 25 embroidered panels from around the world, with each depicting a local historical figure of Scots extraction. When organizers of the Prestonpans Arts Festival in the southeast of Scotland planned to do a Scottish Diaspora Tapestry, members of the Embroiderers Guild of Victoria picked up their hoops and needles. Scots emigrated throughout the world, often leaving behind a profound impact on the areas where they settled. Outside of Scotland, Canada has the highest proportion per-capita of descendants of Scots in the world. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.