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Collie Club of America CCA Home Menu Collie Origins The Collie was used extensively as a herding dog and hailed from the highlands of Scotland and Northern England. The true popularity of the breed came about during the 1860s when Queen Victoria visited the Scottish Highlands and fell in love with the breed. From that point on Collies became very fashionable. The Collies character has been further romanticized and portrayed as the ideal family companion by such authors as Albert Payson Terhune Lad of Sunnybank Eric Knight Lassie Come Home and in the 1950s TV series Lassie.