Knoydart is a community in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, located in the Municipality of the County of Antigonish. It is named after Knoydart ( gd, Cnòideart) in Scotland. The community is most notable for the Culloden Memorial Cairn, commemorating three men who fought on the side of

Bonnie Prince Charlie Bonnie, is a Scottish given name and is sometimes used as a descriptive reference, as in the Scottish folk song, My Bonnie Lies over the Ocean. It comes from the Scots language word "bonnie" (pretty, attractive), or the French bonne (good). That ...

at the

Battle of Culloden The Battle of Culloden (; gd, Blàr Chùil Lodair) was the final confrontation of the Jacobite rising of 1745. On 16 April 1746, the Jacobite army of Charles Edward Stuart was decisively defeated by a British government force under Prince Wi ...

and emigrated to the area in the 1780s. The Cairn was erected in 1938 and commemorates Angus MacDonald, Hugh MacDonald and John MacPherson – who are buried near the historic monument. The three men fought for the Jacobite cause in the Clan Ranald Regiment. The stone is a replica of the Cairn on the battlefield in Scotland and contains stones from the battlefield.https://www.novascotia.com/packages/findapackage/culloden-heritage-tour/201826 Each year since 1982, there is a ceremony to commemorate the day of the battle which is attended by over 300 people.

References

Knoydart on Destination Nova Scotia The Culloden Memorial website
Communities in Pictou County General Service Areas in Nova Scotia {{PictouNS-geo-stub