A Scottish scholar and his American wife bought the remote island of Canna; 43 years later they gifted it, their home and their life’s work preserving Gaelic culture to the National Trust for Scotland

Scottish Gaelic scholar John Lorne Campbell and American musician Margaret Fay Shaw bought the remote islands of Canna and Sanday in 1938 and made Canna House their home. For decades, they collected Gaelic songs, stories, photographs and historical records. I…