The Isle of Canna is one of the small Isles (Eigg, Rhum, Canna, Muck and Heisgeir) positioned to the south of Skye and the West of Mallaig and Lochaber. The island has been inhabited since the dawn of history. Vikings sojourned here, St. Columba visited it and the island went through many changes of ownership until in 1938 John Lorne Campbell purchased it. Canna itself has a satellite island, Sanday, and the two land masses are joined by a footbridge with vehicular access available over the mud flats at low tide. <br> John Lorne Campbell, and his wife Margaret Fay Shaw, have made a systematic and careful study of all things Hebridean and Gaelic and their work represents a unique study of the past. In 1981 John Lorne Campbell gifted the Isle of Canna to The National Trust for Scotland.