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
By: Michael Wilkshire (CA)
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
By: Tyler LeBlanc (CA)
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
By: Samuel de Champlain (CA)
“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
By: Elizabeth Hill (CA)
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
By: Robert G. Chaulk (CA)
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
By: David Goss (CA)
Some of the most comforting and enjoyable parts of Christmas are the heartwarming traditions we celebrate year after year. But do you ever wonder where those traditions came from? Who started them, and how did… Read More
By: James E Candow (CA)
A condensed account of the deportation of the… Read More
By: Dianne Marshall (CA)
Heroes of the Acadian Resistance tells the unique and little-known story of two young men who became leaders of guerilla fighters who resisted the British authorities in Nova Scotia. They fought to… Read More
By: Joan Dawson (CA)
With twenty-five historical photos, and featuring profiles of more than fifty harbours—from the Bedford Basin to Shelburne Harbour to Cobequid Bay, Louisbourg, and Canso—Nova Scotia’s Historic… Read More
By: Joan Dawson (CA)
Narrative, photo-filled historical guide to Nova Scotia’s inland communities from author of Nova Scotia’s Historic Harbours and Nova Scotia’s Lost Communities.… Read More
By: Joan Dawson (CA)
Beaubassin was once a prosperous farming community at the head of the Cumberland Basin; Africville was the vibrant home of Black Nova Scotians who struggled to make a living and found spiritual solace in their… Read More
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