For a long time, Toronto in Canada was very much a “Scottish” city. Thousands of Scots emigrants had settled there. A lot of people still spoke with Scottish accents. The streets had Scottish names reflecting memories of their homeland. Much of the trade that passed through went back by ship to the Clyde. But today, that’s all changed.
Toronto has become one of the most multi-cultural cities in the World – it claims to have more nationalities living there than there are nations in the UN.
But for modern Scots, that should be seen as an advantage. It’s a vibrant metropolitan region with the kind of business mix that would be familiar to Scottish firms – bio-technology, software development and the creative industries. A Scots trade mission to the city has been hearing that there are now more opportunities for business relationships to be forged, for deals to be done than ever before – if only the Scots will seize them.