Not the first ever, Eliza. The Black Watch of Canada is a Primary Reserve regiment based in Montreal, which has substantial communities of francophone African immigrants from such garden spots as Rwanda, Burundi and Côte d'Ivoire, and is the centre of Canada's large Haitian community. When I last saw the pipes and drums of the Black Watch at the Glengarry Highland Games (in Maxville, Ontario), a good quarter of the band was a lot blacker than their tartan.

That's how we roll in these parts.