Bannock (food) than a bread dough. Selkirk bannock from Scotland is well-known and named after the town in the Scottish borders where it is traditionally made. It is a spongy, buttery variety, sometimes compared to a fruitcake, made from wheat flour and containing a very large quantity of raisins. The first known maker of this variety was a baker named Robbie Douglas, who opened his shop in Selkirk in 1859. When Queen Victoria visited Sir Walter Scott's granddaughter at Abbotsford she is reputed to have taken her tea with a slice of Selkirk bannock, thus ensuring that its reputation was enshrined forever.
Russell Bannock Director of the Canadian Industrial Preparedness Association, and the Canadian Exporters Association. In the late 1990s, his wartime navigator, Robert Bruce, recorded his Symphony in B flat, dedicated to Bannock and in part inspired by the night sorties they flew together. In 2011 he was made a member of the Order of Ontario "for his contributions to the aerospace industry". Russell Bannock Russell "Russ" Bannock (born November 1, 1919), is a Second World War ace and former chief test pilot for de Havilland Canada. Bannock was born in Edmonton in 1919, and worked as a commercial pilot before the Second