| Lucille Campey |
Dr. Lucille Campey is a Canadian, living in Britain, with over thirty
years of experience as a researcher and author. It was her father's
Scottish roots and love of history which first stimulated her interest in
the early exodus of people from Scotland to Canada. She is the
great-great-great granddaughter of William Thomson, who left
Morayshire, on the northeast coast of Scotland in the early 1800s to
begin a new life with his family near Digby then in Antigonish, Nova
Scotia. Lucille was awarded a Ph.D. by Aberdeen University in 1998
for her researches into Scottish immigration to Canada in the period
from 1770 to 1850.
Lucille has authored three books on the subject of emigrant Scots.
Described by The Guardian newspaper as "indispensable to Islanders
of Scottish ancestry", her first book, A Very Fine Class of Immigrants
(2001) gives the most comprehensive account to date of the Scottish
influx to the Island.
years of experience as a researcher and author. It was her father's
Scottish roots and love of history which first stimulated her interest in
the early exodus of people from Scotland to Canada. She is the
great-great-great granddaughter of William Thomson, who left
Morayshire, on the northeast coast of Scotland in the early 1800s to
begin a new life with his family near Digby then in Antigonish, Nova
Scotia. Lucille was awarded a Ph.D. by Aberdeen University in 1998
for her researches into Scottish immigration to Canada in the period
from 1770 to 1850.
Lucille has authored three books on the subject of emigrant Scots.
Described by The Guardian newspaper as "indispensable to Islanders
of Scottish ancestry", her first book, A Very Fine Class of Immigrants
(2001) gives the most comprehensive account to date of the Scottish
influx to the Island.
Her second book Fast Sailing and Copper-Bottomed (2002) gives a gripping account of emigrant
shipping from the north of Scotland to Canada in the sailing ship era. Her third book The Silver Chief
was published in 2003 to commemorate the 200th Anniversary celebrating the arrival of the Selkirk
Settlers to Belfast, Prince Edward Island. Her fourth book is After the Hector: The Scottish Pioneers of
Nova Scotia and Cape Breton, 1773-1852 (2004) and her fifth is The Scottish Pioneers of Upper
Canada, 1784-1855: Glengarry and Beyond (2005).
A chemistry graduate of Ottawa University, Lucille worked initially in the fields of science and
computing. After marrying her English husband, she moved to the north of England, where she became
interested in medieval monasteries and acquired a Master of Philosophy Degree (on the subject of
medieval settlement patterns) from Leeds University. Having lived for five years in Easter Ross, in the
north of Scotland, while she completed her doctoral thesis, she and Goeff returned to England, and now
live near Salisbury in Wiltshire.
shipping from the north of Scotland to Canada in the sailing ship era. Her third book The Silver Chief
was published in 2003 to commemorate the 200th Anniversary celebrating the arrival of the Selkirk
Settlers to Belfast, Prince Edward Island. Her fourth book is After the Hector: The Scottish Pioneers of
Nova Scotia and Cape Breton, 1773-1852 (2004) and her fifth is The Scottish Pioneers of Upper
Canada, 1784-1855: Glengarry and Beyond (2005).
A chemistry graduate of Ottawa University, Lucille worked initially in the fields of science and
computing. After marrying her English husband, she moved to the north of England, where she became
interested in medieval monasteries and acquired a Master of Philosophy Degree (on the subject of
medieval settlement patterns) from Leeds University. Having lived for five years in Easter Ross, in the
north of Scotland, while she completed her doctoral thesis, she and Goeff returned to England, and now
live near Salisbury in Wiltshire.
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