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Lucille Campey

Dr. Lucille Campey is a Canadian, living in Britain, with over thirty years' experience as a researcher and author. It was her father’s Scottish roots and love of history that first stimulated her interest in the early exodus of people from Scotland to Canada. She is the great-great-grand-daughter of William Thomson, who left Morayshire, on the northeast coast of Scotland in the early 1800s to begin a new life with his family, first near Digby then in Antigonish, Nova Scotia. He is described in D. Whidden’s History of the Town of Antigonish simply as “William, Pioneer” and is commemorated in the St. James Church and Cemetery at Antigonish. Lucille’s mother, Cécile Morency, who was born in Ste-Marie-de-Beauce, was a descendant of Guillaume Baucher dit Morency who settled in Île d’Orléans in 1659.

Lucille's books are based on the research she undertook while studying for her Ph.D. at Aberdeen University, but they are augmented by considerable new material. 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 studied medieval settlement patterns, acquiring a Master of Philosophy Degree from Leeds University. Having lived for five years in Easter Ross in Scotland while she completed her doctoral thesis, Lucille and Geoff returned to England, and now live near Salisbury in Wiltshire.
 

You can contact Lucille by sending her an Email. Her address is lucille@scotstocanada.com.

 

Geoff Campey

Geoff was born in Chester, England. He graduated in Mathematics and worked for many years in the Chemical industry. He started developing his computer skills in 1960 when he worked on one of the early scientific computers and has been fascinated by computers ever since. Geoff produces the maps and tables used in Lucille's books and takes some of the photographs used as illustrations. He designed this web site.

 

You can contact Geoff by sending him an Email. His address is geoff@scotstocanada.com.