Glengarry Highland Games – Your Trip to Scotland, No Passport Required

The bagpipes and drums were calling people to Maxville, Ontario, to join in the Glengarry Highland Games and attendees responded by the thousands. For two days on the first long weekend in August, the small, rural town in North Glengarry has hosted the largest, annual highland games in North America, celebrating its 76 anniversary of Celtic festivities in 2025.

Longtime Glengarry Highland Games announcer extraordinaire Bob Cleary said 42 bands gathered in Maxville with over 1,200 pipers, drummers and drum majors taking part in the massed bands on the field in front of crowds that filled the grandstands to capacity and gathered on the grassy berm to watch. Attendees were thrilled to see so many individuals playing in unison, filling the air with the sounds of the bagpipes. It is without a doubt, a spectacular display of Celtic heritage and amazing talent by the musicians on parade, marching and playing as one.