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Scots in Geelong & district to 1860 does not claim to be a book listing all Scots in the area in the first twenty five years - that would be an impossible task! Instead it demonstrates why there were so many Scots in the region and why they were there so early in the development of Port Phillip. In fact there were Scots among the select members of the Port Phillip Association which landed in the colony and claimed land in 1835.

Scots in Geelong looks at the variety of voluntary and involuntary schemes which brought Scots to the region in the early years and subsequently attracted more Scots to make it their home: the Derwent Company and the Clyde Company, Scottish squatters, Overlanders, and Exiles, J D Lang's Protestant emigration scheme, the Highland & Island emigration scheme, and other immigrants by association. The book also looks at the role played by Geelong itself in attracting immigrants to the region as the commercial 'pivot' for the Western districts and later the goldfields.

• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• Our First Scottish visitors
• The beginnings of Scottish settlement
• Geelong the Pivot and Point Henry
• Scottish architects
• Presbyterian and Scottish churches and schools
• Presbyterian sections in local cemeteries
• Hotels
• Societies and sport
• Commemorating Scottish people and places
• People A-Z
• Bibliography
• Index