Our all-male association is based loosely on the Tarbolton Bachelors' Club, founded by the Bard, his brother Gilbert and some lads of the Tarbolton parish as “a diversion for the weary man worn down by necessary labours of life”. We meet on the first Thursday of the month between September and June aboard Canada’s Naval Memorial, HMCS Sackville, a venue ideal for those of us with a nautical background, to celebrate the life and works of Robert Burns and to promote and preserve Scottish heritage.

The following is a direct quote from Rule 10 of the Tarbolton Bachelor's Club

"Every man proper for a member of this Society, must have a frank, honest, open heart; above any thing dirty or mean; and must be a professed lover of one or more of the female sex. No haughty, self-conceited person, who looks upon himself as superior to the rest of the club, and especially no mean-spirited, worldly mortal, whose only will is to heap up money, shall upon any pretence whatever be admitted. In short, the proper person for this Society is, a cheerful, honest-hearted lad; who, if he has a friend that is true, and a mistress that is kind, and as much wealth as genteely to make both ends meet-is just as happy as this world can make him."

To become a member in the Halifax Burns Club you must be sponsored by a Halifax Burns Club member and attend three meetings.  At your fourth meeting you will be asked if you would like to become a member.  Members will then consider a motion of acceptance and club membership.