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
Politics of the Highland council area Nairn, and Badenoch and Strathspey corporate management area, with the city area being represented by a city committee. Public forums are held at ward level, and there are also private ward-level meetings of councillors. The numbers of wards in each corporate management area, and the number of councillors representing them, are as follows: For lists of wards and details of how they are grouped into corporate and ward management areas, see: The first elections to the Highland Council were in 1995, when the unitary council was created under the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994. Since then, there have been