Electric Scotland

Electric Scotland was created and run from Scotland but in 1998 we moved our hosting to Kentucky in the USA. Later I formed Electric Scotland USA LLC which is an American company and now the business is run by that company and has been for the past 3 years. I myself moved to the USA and then to Canada and am now personally resident in Canada. In my will I have left the site to the Scottish Studies Foundation in Toronto. This means that eventually the site will be hosted on the McLaughlin library computers at the University of Guelph and run by the Scottish Studies Dept. at the same University. The Library holds a massive Scottish collection and is recognised by the government of Canada as a "Collection of National Importance". Likewise the Scottish Studies Dept. at the University of Guelph is the only place in North America where you can study for a Doctorate or Masters in Scottish Studies. And so this will make a good home for ElectricScotland and thus all our content will be preserved for future generations. As to the future... we will continue to add more antiquarian books to the site and at time of writing this we have embarked on the 15 volume New Statistical Account of Scotland published in 1845 and the 3 volume "Scottish Nation" which is a history of Scotland told through biographies of Scots. To this we're also publishing the weekly Scottish-Canadian newspaper from 1891. We have also just acquired 12 volumes of the "Transactions of the Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland". We are also half way through publishing the first 8 volumes of the Scotch-Irish Society of America. We recently did a biography of the Rev. Normal MacLeod, chaplain to the Queen and in it we discovered that he'd started a weekly publication called "Good Words" so we've also acquired the first volume containing all the first years issues and have made a start at publishing that on the site. As variety we intend to publish books like "The History of the County of Bruce" which is a county in Ontario Canada where many Scots settled. Another book is "Ocean to Ocean" which is an account of the building of the Canadian Pacific railway. The chief engineer was a Scot and was a massive enterprise and worth reading.