A Love Letter to Africville
This book is a warm hug from… Read More
By: Peter Barss (CA)
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
By: Margaret Conrad (CA)
<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
By: John Mellor (CA)
With all the passion and forward thrust of a terrific novel, The Company Store is John Mellor’s winning story of Labour’s Wars in Cape Breton Island. A much sought after book, it has been too long out of print, and it… Read More
By: K. Bruce Lane (CA)
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By: Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada
This is the Final Report of Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission and its six-year investigation of the residential school system for Aboriginal youth and the legacy of these schools. This… Read More
By: "Henry Bishop (CA), Bridglal Pachai (CA)"
The history of Nova Scotia’s black communities is a complex story of triumph and struggle, intertwined with the many stories of ancestors, destinies, and challenges. The knowledge and insight of veteran authors… Read More
By: Houda Asal (CA)
While โArabsโ now attract considerable attention โ from media, the state, and sociological studies โ their history in Canada remains little known. Identifying as Arab in Canada begins to rectify… Read More
By: Wanda Taylor (CA)
The Black Loyalists were the first large group of people of African ancestry to settle in Halifax, in 1782. In 1796 the Jamaican Maroons arrived. Then in 1813, Black refugees fleeing the United States came…. Read More
By: Melvin Baker (CA), Peter Neary (CA)
There are multiple J.R. Smallwoods, but the aspiring and ambitious figure presented in this biography stands apart. Melvin Baker and Peter Neary use the largely untapped sources of Smallwood’s own papers and his… Read More
By: John Sandlos (CA), Arn Keeling (CA)
Mining Country offers the stories of Canadian miners from past and present, from pre-settlement aboriginal mines to the development of Vancouver and Toronto as centres of global mining… Read More
By: Nick Cranford (CA)
On January 17, 2020, Newfoundland and Labrador experienced one of the worst blizzards in its history. Life came to a screeching halt. Entire roads and cars were buried, people became… Read More
By: "Bridglal Pachai (CA)"
The Nova Scotia Black Experience Through the Centuries is a comprehensive account of the African Nova Scotian struggle to build a vital community in the face of racial discrimination…. Read More
By: Vernon Oickle (CA)
Humans love lists. As humourist writer H. Allen Smith once wrote, “The human animal differs from the lesser primates in his passion for lists.” That infatuation with lists continues here. From Nova Scotia’s… Read More
By: Lesley Choyce (CA)
”It is a good tale, well told, which opens the door to the wanderings of the imagination.” โThe Globe and Mail
The history of Nova Scotia is an amazing story of a land… Read More
By: Dale Jarvis (CA)
The Newfoundland and Labrador of yesterday was more colourful than you might remember, and no one is more qualified to be your guide through the strange terrain of local history… Read More
By: Kathleen Stitt (CA), Vernon Oickle (CA), Linda Rafuse (CA)
Queens County: A History in Pictures offers the definitive look at the county and its people. Since 1929, the Queens County Historical Society has been collecting photographs of the people,… Read More
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