Strathspey, Scotland and continues North along the A9 towards Newtonmore, Kingussie, Aviemore and on towards Grantown-on-Spey. The Canadian merchant Robert Simpson, founder of Simpson's department store, was born there in 1834. Speyside is one of the main centres of the Scotch whisky industry, with a high concentration of single malt distilleries in the region, including the Glenfiddich and Balvenie distilleries. Strathspey, Scotland Strathspey (Scottish Gaelic, "Srath Spè") is the area around the strath of the River Spey, Scotland, in both the Moray council area and the Badenoch and Strathspey committee area of Highland. The term Strathspey usually refers to the upper part
Speyside, Ontario Speyside, Ontario Speyside is an unincorporated community in Halton Hills, Ontario, Canada. Once a thriving pioneer community, little remains of the original settlement. The Bruce Trail and Speyside Resource Management Area are located near the settlement. Early settlers believed a local creek resembled the River Spey in Scotland, and named the new settlement "Speyside". Between the 1850s and 1870s, Speyside had a hotel (the Stewart Hotel), two general stores, a village hall (used as a school), a tannery, a blacksmith, two saw mills, and a stone quarry. The settlement had seven streets and several houses. The population in 1874 was