1. Stories from our past
Stories from our past
The Society has a raft of archive material going back many years and it is our aim to publish as much as possible on this web site.
If you have documents, photos, etc that you would like to be included in our web pages, please send them to, or contact the Society Secretary, using the contact link included in the web.
Some docs may require you to reposition them or increase the font - just right click or use the tools at the top of the PDF document.
3. Preserving the Original 1911 Flag
4. The flag arrived from Canada 1911
5. First Colonial Society Standard Bearer T B Williamson
6. The full story of the ''beginning'' 1910 to 1911
7. The inauguration speech 1911 by Craig-Brown
8. The "hamecoming" 1912 & Glasgow Souters
9. The first medallion from Edinburgh Souters 1912
10. Reflections of a Souter to an Exile 1912
11. The race prize donated in 1914
13. Toll banking
14. Wartime
17. Colonial SBs and LBs with original 1911 flag - year not known
18. The original members of the Society 1911
20. Colonials win bowling league 2015
21. Colonial Society and the Scottish Diaspora Tapestry
22. Preserving Our Bussin' Ribbons 2015
26. Good Cause awards from Society 2018
27. The launch of the new CD 2016
28. The launch of the book ''Tales of the Exiles'' in 2018
29. Good Cause awards from Society 2019
2. Common Ridings from 1911 onwards
Common Ridings Past
The Society has taken part in every Selkirk Common Riding since 1911 and we are keen to publish as much material as possible covering over 100 years of history.
In this section of our web site we are publishing Common Riding pictures from 1911 onwards.
If you have photographs involving the Colonial Society, particularly for the missing years, please get in touch with the Secretary via the ‘’contact’’ page of this web site. We would be delighted to publish them.
Reproduction of some of the images has been problematic because many images were ''glued'' into the old minute books. Using the PDF facilities however you should be able to move the position of the image and/or increase the font size.
1911 John Johnstone and no 2 (Note - T B Williamson was appointed CSB but he was detained by business in New York)
1914 Tom Currie and no 2
War Years
1920 James Nichol - no images found but report of Bussin located in the archive section of the web
1921 William Downie - no images found but report of Bussin located in the archive section of the web
1926 George Muir - no Colonial images found but report of Bussin located in archive section of the web. One picture of all SBs linked here.
1927 George Robertson image 1................image 2
1928 James Hogg image 1--------------image 2.......................image 3 (Colonial visitors with Chairman Ballantyne)
War Years
1958 Walter Waldie & Plus number 2
1963 Jack Thomson number 2 number 3
1964 George Thomson and George no 2 and no 3 and no 4
1966 Lewis Brydon and number 2 and no 3
1969 Raymond Smith plus images numbered one,,,,,,,,, two ,,,,,,,,,,,,,and three
1976 Donald Waldie number 2 number 3
1982 Drew Imrie & Plus number 2
1987 David Williamson and also number 2 plus number 3
1990 Murray Russell plus number 2 plus number 3 plus number 4 plus number 5
1992 Trevor Walters and a second photo and number 3
1993 Will Anderson no 2 no 3 no4
1995 Duncan Stewart no 1 no 2 no3
1996 Billy Rathie and a second image and no3
1997 Marcus Waldie number 2 and number 3
1998 Billy Coracy number 2 and also number 3
2001 Mark Screen and a second and no 3
2004 Alan Emond NZ plus another as number 2
2017 Martin Murray (1) and then (2)