2020 Virtual General Meeting

Despite canceling our in-person June 2020 General Meeting due to COVID-19 (which was going to be held in Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA), we were pleased to be able to hold the GM virtually on Saturday, June 20, 2020 utilizing the Zoom video conferencing platform. We had over 45 members in attendance! Members can find documents discussed at the meeting, as well as a video recording of the meeting, in the Login area of this website. See you at our next GM in 2022 which will also be offered virtually through Zoom. We are planning to host our next in-person GM in Scotland in 2023.

Past Clan Gatherings & General Meetings

We hold a Clan Gathering & General Meeting every two years over a long weekend in usually June or July. We try and make sure our GM coincides with a Highland Games happening in the same geographic area so we can come together and represent Clan MacKinnon with a clan tent. We hope our next GM will take place in Scotland in 2022. We are still in the beginning stages of planning this most epic GM that will bring MacKinnons back to their ancestral homeland. In more recent times, our prior GMs include those listed below:
2023 - To be held in person in Scotland!
2022 - To be held virtually through Zoom again
2020 - Held virtually as a Zoom video conference
2018 - Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
2016 - Chicago, Illinois, USA
2014 - Stone Mountain, Georgia, USA
2012 - Seattle, Washington, USA
2010 - Chicago, Illinois, USA
2008 - Grandfather Mountain, North Carolina, USA
2005 - Pleasanton, California, USA

Thistle Award

The Thistle Award is given by the Society to a deserving member (or members) who have gone above and beyond in their service to the Society. These special awards are given in person at each Clan Gathering and General Meeting every two years. Recipients receive a beautiful etched wooden plaque. Past recipients include:
2018
Melinda Wiens, Treasurer
Robert Amyot, Continental Europe/France Commissioner

2016
Betty McKinnon Anderson, former Genealogist
Kay McKinnon LaRue, former Board Secretary
Gerald McKinnon, former Representative of the Chief

2014
Carolyn McKinnon Jackson, former Membership Secretary
Stacey Solemslie, Newsletter Editor