400 Years in 365 Days
A fun, trivia-filled book featuring over a thousand entries from the communities and peoples of Nova… Read More
Canada
A Canadian Nurse in the Great War
A fascinating collection of letters from a Maritime nurse who served overseas during the First World War from the author of In Their Own Words and Letters… Read More
A Mixed Marriage
For hundreds of years, a rich French heritage has marked the history and culture of Newfoundland and Labrador. Yet the contributions of French settlers and fishing communities have not received… Read More
A Portrait of Lunenburg County
The legendary schooner fishing days are gone forever from the coast of Nova Scotia, but the spirit of those days, and the hard and heroic men who endured them, lives on in the stories and photographs… Read More
A Short History of Halifax
Covering the most significant events in the storied history of the city, A Short History of Halifax is a fascinating, accessible record. In a readable, narrative style, author Dan Soucoup offers up a… Read More
A Watch in the Night
A Watch in the Night chronicles the struggles of one Nova Scotia family to survive on a tiny windswept island without running water, electricity, or reliable communication with the mainland. For… Read More
Acadian Driftwood
Winner, Evelyn Richardson Award for Non-Fiction and Democracy 250 Atlantic Book Award for Historical WritingFinalist, Dartmouth Book Award for Non-Fiction, and the Margaret and John Savage… Read More
Acadian Traditions on Candlemas Day
Georges Arsenault’s latest edition to the Acadian Traditions series Most English-speaking people just associate the 2nd of February, or Groundhog Day, with superstitions related to the weather. In Acadian communities,… Read More
Algonquians, Hurons and Iroquois
“If we compare him with the other explorers and founders of that age he stands above them all in the range of achievement” –Edward Gaylord Bourne, Introduction As the first explorer to provide an accurate and… Read More
All ‘Bout Canada
This fun, informative celebration of Canada is a combination rhyming alphabet book and compendium of factual information about Canada from “Aurora Borealis” to “Zellers” that uses a blend of poetry, prose, posters,… Read More
At the Ocean’s Edge
<P>Providing a rich cultural history of Nova Scotia, this book is rooted in a lifetime of research and a broad reading of secondary sources relating to issues of class, race, gender, and… Read More
Atlantic’s Last Stop
The long-awaited, definitive, shocking history of SS Atlantic, the worst shipwreck in Nova Scotia’s history, authored by the vessel’s recognized… Read More
Biographical Dictionary of Enslaved Black People in the Maritimes
<P>This biographical dictionary recovers the stories and illuminates the lives of enslaved Black people in the Maritimes…. Read More
Blood on the Coal
Over 400 people have died mining for coal under the town of Springhill. This is the stirring account of two explosions, a “bump” and two major fires. Pieced together from interviews, diaries and newspaper… Read More
Breaking Disaster
On December 6, 1917, the face of Halifax changed forever when the Imo, a Belgian Relief ship, collided with the French ship, the Mont Blanc. Shortly after 9:00 a.m., the… Read More
Canada’s Forgotten Arctic Hero
This is the terrific true adventure of an unjustly forgotten Cape Bretoner, Canada’s first photographer of the High Arctic. George Rice emerged as a leader on an American Arctic expedition and died a hero
searching for… Read More
Catastrophe
On December 6, 1917, the Canadian city of Halifax, Nova Scotia, was shattered when a volatile cargo exploded in the bustling wartime harbour. Over 1,600 people were killed and 9,000 injured. At the time, it was the… Read More
