CLAN CARRUTHERS SOCIETY (CANADA), has been running since 2018 and as full members of the Clans And Scottish Societies of Canada (CASSOC) have been represented on their Board. However it wasn’t until July 2020, that CCS (Canada), finally attained registration as a Non-Profit Organisation in Canada.
A Chief of Carruthers was finally confirmed by the Lord Lyon, in 2019, after a long and arduous journey that began in 2007.
In July 2020, Andrew James Carruthers was confirmed as Clan Commissioner for Canada, by Peter Carruthers of Holmains, Chief of the Name and Arms of Carruthers. The Current Commissioner is Laurie Carruthers Caron.
CLAN COMMISSIONER (Canada)
Andrew James Carruthers (London, ON)
Andrew lives in southwestern Ontario near London and currently works in life insurance for Canada Life.
He attended Western University at Huron campus and graduated in 2018 with a specialization in history.
At University he served as the Speaker of the Students’ Council and General Assembly and later on their executive as the Vice-president of Finance.
Andrew’s area of study and interest is early modern European history, covering from the renaissance to the first World War. His interest in European history plays a big part in his interest and enjoyment in Carruthers family history, which he inherited from his father, James, and his grandfather Archie.
Both his father and grandgfather visited Scotland multiple times in order to further research the genealogy of the family, and in na similar vein he looks forward to following in their footsteps and experiencing first hand the history of Scotland, which he has read so much about.
Andrew is an active collector of stamps and coins, sticking mainly to Canadian but finds himself involved in some form of politics or other, often times helping out on local campaigns.
As Commissioner, appointed by the Chief himself, he is very much looking forward to meeting and welcoming everyone at a Clan Carruthers gathering, here in Canada at some point in the future.
VICE-CLAN COMMISSIONER
Janet Carruthers Rossiter (Moncton, NB)
Janet is Vice Commissioner for Clan Carruthers Canada. She has been interested in her family’s history for many years. Born and raised in Southeastern New Brunswick, she learned that her Great X5 Grandfather had left Scotland, in 1832, moving to Kent County, New Brunswick.
Janet’s father, John Carruthers, was both born and raised in that same area of Kent County. When her son started to play the bagpipes it set Janet on a journey to try to better understand her Scottish heritage
After some research, Janet learned in 2018 about the origins of Clan Carruthers and excitedly watched them attain official Clan status! This led her to helping spread the word about the Clan and the society and being happy to assist, joining the board.
She has found it a wonderful experience to contact so many Carruthers cousins, share stories, and reserch genealogical connections.
Janet is married and the mother of 3 children whom she enjoyed homeschooling during which she enjoyed telling them many stories about their Scottish heritage and family genealogy.
The wonderful sights at the Highland Games stirred her soul and intrigued her with the clans displaying their pride and the competing bagpipe bands! Janet is a proud member of the Board, and is stil;l learing about her family heritage from South Western Scotland.
SECRETARY/TREASURER (CLAN GENEALOGIST-CANADA)
Laurie Carruthers Caron FSA Scot(Cape Breton, NS)
Laurie is the Secretary-Treasurer and Director of Genealogy for Clan Carruthers-Canada. She has been studying genealogy for almost 20 years and has assisted numerous people over that time in circumventing their brick walls.
It was Laurie’s brother and sister who inspired her interest in the family tree. They had started the project back in the days when the internet did not exist, travelling the world and digging into paper archives to obtain records.
Building on their compiled information, Laurie took the project into the computer age and into the world of DNA discoveries thus extending her research services to friends and family. Her retirement goal is to become a professionally certified genealogist. She is involved, along with our other senior Clan Genealogists in assisting in and monitoring the Clan Carruthers yDNA Research Project. This is being carried out to the highest standards, ro ensure both privicy and accuracy.
Laurie’s mother, Darlene, is a Carruthers, hence her affiliation with Clan Carruthers. With thanks to Laurie’s uncle and her mom’s cousin, who kindly submitted yDNA tests for their Carruthers male line, recent DNA triangulation results have proven that Laurie is a descendant of the Guileburn line of the Carruthers family.
Laurie is a mother of 4, and a grandmother of 4, and currently resides on Cape Breton Island. Her life-long career as a customs broker has given her the opportunity to travel Canada extensively and be able to stay in touch with close relatives and meet many new distant cousins.
DIRECTOR – CLAN HISTORIAN (CANADA)
Harold John Carruthers (Glencoe, ON)
Harold John Carruthers was born to John McGhie Carruthers and Anna Myrtle Smith on March 28, 1946 in Glencoe, Ontario. he has two sisters-Connie and Karen.
Harold married Lynnda Lee Pole on September 2, 1967 and was blessed with two daughters, Tanya Carruthers-Nagy (Nathan) and Natasha Kalita (Joe) and are further blessed with 4 grandchildren, Emilee, Zachary, Brayden and Kasia.
Harold’s father was a farm equipment dealer for many years from 1932-1977 and Harold began working with him in 1965 until 2006, when he started a hardware business until my retirement.
History was Harolds favourite subject in school and he suspects that what first piqued his interest in history was sitting on my grandmother Carruthers’ knee, with her showing me old family pictures and letters from Scotland.
She would patiently explain to me who each person was and what their connection was to our family. I was only about 6 or 7 years old at the time.
In the year 1966, my grandmother Carruthers passed away leaving him with the nagging thought of why he hadn’t paid more attention or asked more questions of the stories she had shared with me over the years.
From that time on, Harold became very invested in the Carruthers family’s history. This interest extended to all aspects of family genealogy and area history over the last 55 years.
As such Harold is renowned as a Historian being a member of the Glencoe Historical Society, the Genealogical Society, the Ontario Archives, LACAC Group and Registrar Lands. He is also a member of the Dumfries and Galloway History Society, is a Masonic Historian, Oliver Tractors group and the historian for Clan Carruthers Society (Canada)
DIRECTOR
Rob Carruthers (Petawawa, ON)
Bio to follow
I am a Carruthers, descended from my grandmother who was born in Ontario.
I’m afraid I’m very much in my own in my roots search as mom died when I was in my 20’s. Does anyone know which line an Edith Melissa Carruthers came from please. That’s my grandmother. She was born in 1876. I also know that Samuel Carruthers who started a church in Ontario was her father’s cousin.