Meet our newest contributor: Nancy Dupuis

Nancy Dupuis

Nancy Dupuis is a volunteer freelance writer with the Communications Team of the Scottish Society of Ottawa.  She feels privileged to have been the wife to a military man, thus allowing her to travel this great country back and forth a number of times over his career and for her own opportunity to have worked almost 30 years in the Federal Government as an administrative sort and later on in Programs, with the last 13 years of her career as the Special Events Coordinator to the Canada Revenue Agency.  After retirement, she began heading out on road trips; some big, some small but all with great impact on her future – again, travelling this wonderful country, finding her niche for writing and taking photographs; eventually self-publishing two books with more on the way.

She has deep ties to Scotland; her father born in Cardenden, Scotland and later to arrive in Canada in 1927 with an older brother and a half-sister, just young children after the death of their mother.  They arrived at a farm in Bearbrook, Ontario where another half-sister was employed and awaiting them.   Her mother’s great grandfather (family name Aitken) came to Canada in 1831 from Paisley, Renfrewshire, Scotland.  They settled in Horton Township, near Renfrew, Ontario.  Her mother’s great grandmother was a Miller, this family coming to Canada in 1821 from Ayrshire, Scotland.

Nancy is thrilled to be doing some writing for the Society, at the moment she is focused on the Scottish Settlers coming to Upper Canada and their influence on the area.  She is looking forward to providing tidbits of the past that will awaken the interest of her readers, inspiring them to pick up that history book or that old photo album and wander back in time to their Scottish roots.

Nancy can be reached at history@ottscot.ca