Gaelic Spoken Here

Place Names St. Ann's North America Scotland Victoria County Nova Scotia Mabou Inverness County Cape Breton Island

Welcome to St. Ann’s, the home of the only Gaelic college in North America! You can learn to speak Gaelic here. Gaelic is a very old language that was spoken in Ireland and Scotland. You can also learn other skills important to Scottish culture such as playing bagpipes, drumming, Highland dancing and weaving cloth.

The Gaelic College was opened in 1938 to help people study and preserve the Gaelic language and culture. Thousands of people visit it every year. Many people of all ages sign up for courses. Others tour the Great Hall of the Clans, a museum of Scottish culture and history.

St. Ann’s, in Victoria County, is the perfect place for the Gaelic College. In the late 1700s and early 1800s, many Scottish people left their homeland and came to North America. A large number of them settled in Nova Scotia. Many of these people came to Cape Breton Island.