“Dangerous Enemy Sympathizers”
Winner, Democracy 250 Atlantic Book Award for Historical WritingWhat happened in Canadian Internment Camp B?From 1940 to 1945, Internment Camp B at Ripples, some… Read More
HISTORY
400 Years in 365 Days
A fun, trivia-filled book featuring over a thousand entries from the communities and peoples of Nova… Read More
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
African Chronicles – a memoir
African Chronicles is a memoir covering two years in the lives of Burris and Louanne Devanney, but also spanning forty-five years of development work in Africa. It is a montage… Read More
Agnes Warner and the Nursing Sisters of the Great War
Through ear-splitting, thunderous explosions and fearful eerie flashes in the distance, the nurses of the Canadian Army Nursing Service in World War I waited for the inevitable arrival of wounded… 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
Antigonish
With more than 130 photographs, many of them seen here for the first time, Antigonish: A History in Pictures offers a stunning portrait of this one-of-a kind place.… Read More
Asleep in the Deep
On 27 June 1918, the Llandovery Castle, a Canadian hospital ship returning to England, was sunk by a German U-boat in contravention of international law. Two hundred and thirty-four crew… 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 Canada’s Greatest Storms
Wind, waves and snow: Atlantic Canada has experienced more than its share of dramatic and tragic storms. In this accessible narrative, author Dan Soucoup takes readers from the eighteenth century to present day, as he… 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
