- Glencoe Lochan
Glencoe Lochan is a track of
forest located just north of Glencoe village in theScottish Highlands . It was planted/transplanted from the Pacific Northwest ofCanada in the nineteenth century byDonald Alexander Smith, 1st Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal .After acquiring the Glencoe Estate in 1895, Donald Alexander Smith and his wife, Isabella Sophia Hardisty, moved from Canada to Scotland. Soon after their arrival, Isabella became increasingly homesick for her ancestral lands in Canada. In an attempt to abate his wife's depression, Donald Alexander Smith had this forest painstakingly planted, and granted it to her as a private refuge.
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