Robert Burns Fraser University's Centre for Scottish Studies organized a marathon reading of Burns's poetry. Senator Heath Macquarrie quipped of Canada's first Prime Minister that "While the lovable [Robbie] Burns went in for wine, women and song, his fellow Scot, John A. did not chase women and was not musical!" 'Gung Haggis Fat Choy' is a hybrid of Chinese New Year and Robbie Burns Day, celebrated in Vancouver since the late 1990s. In January 1864, President Abraham Lincoln was invited to attend a Robert Burns celebration by Robert Crawford; and if unable to attend, send a toast. Lincoln composed a toast. An
James Burns (merchant) of Renfrewshire. The ‘Memoirs’ are filled with detailed accounts of the incidents which befell the nobility of Scotland during turbulent times. James Burns (merchant) James Burns was a Glasgow-born merchant of the 17th century and the author of the "Memoirs of the Civil War and during the Usurpation from 1644 to 1661". Little is known of his history, but he is supposed to be the son of Robert Burns, who is mentioned in "Ure's History of Glasgow",’ and whose name appears in the "List of Linen and Woollen Drapers", commonly called English Merchants, since the year 1600. The manuscript of