In April 1932, the eminent Gaelic scholar, John Lorne Campbell, visited Cape Breton Island and Antigonish County in Eastern Nova Scotia. His purpose was to discover how the descendants of emigrants from the Scottish Highlands and the Hebrides had fared in their new country, and to gauge the extent to which they had maintained their Gaelic culture. Five years later, he returned with his wife, Margaret Fay Shaw, in order to collect Gaelic song and tradition and compare it with surviving tradition in the Western Isles. This book is the result of that expedition and shows that much which had been lost from the original Highland song tradition formed part of a living repetory in the New World.
Songs Remembered in Exile forms a unique record of the songs Campbell recorded in Nova Scotia and also includes an account of the Hebridean emigration that took place between 1790 and 1835.
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