Catherine Gallager was one of folklorist, Dr. Helen Creightons main informants. This show contains various stories from her life and eight of the forty songs that she sung for Helen Creighton.

Catherine Marion Scott Gallagher was born in 1889 and raised on a farm in Enfield, Nova Scotia. She was one of 9 children. Her father, Donald Scott, was a farmer and a railway man. It was mostly her mother, Sophia Horne Scott, who taught Catherine many songs, ballads and broadsides. Catherine lived in a lighthouse at the edge of a cliff at Chebucto Head. Catherine’s niece, Marion, once described Catherine as a lovely person and everyone thought she was “a real lady.” This is why the show is called “Lady in the Lighthouse.”

Cindy acknowledges the Helen Creighton Folklore Society for providing her with grant money to do the research and production of this show.