Cultural Heritage

Great Cape Breton Storytelling

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From a lifetime of collecting, Ron Caplan offers tales from the rare complex of Cape Breton Island. From a grim sealing trek to a mother’s courage in a windstorm, to memories of drunken hens, to a shark attack. Mackerel… Read More

Stories From the Six Worlds (2nd edition)

By: Ruth Holmes Whitehead (CA)

In Stories from the Six Worlds, it is their stories, passed down by word of mouth, that best preserve and present Mi’kmaw culture. For in their tales, the People themselves speak about… Read More

The Boat People

By: Sharon Bala (CA)

By the winner of The Journey Prize, and inspired by a real incident, The Boat People is a gripping and morally complex novel about a group of refugees who survive… Read More

Where the Silver River Ends

By: Anna Quon (CA)

Lyrical realism meets family drama meets sparkling global folktale. Joan, a half-Chinese English conversation teacher unmoored in Europe, flees Budapest for a fresh start…. Read More

We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts and the Government of Canada through the Canada Book Fund for this project, as well as the Province of New Brunswick’s Department of Tourism, Heritage, and Culture, the Province of Newfoundland’s Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, and Recreation, the Province of Nova Scotia’s Department of Communities, Culture and Heritage, and the Province of Prince Edward Island’s Innovation PEI Arts, Culture, and Heritage Department