An interactive, photo-filled book for young readers featuring 100 fun facts about the East Coast. Did you know that you can walk on the ocean floor at the Hopewell Rocks in New Brunswick? Or that there was once a UFO sighting in PEI? Or...
Nova Scotia Collection
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Auteur:Sawler, SarahSommaire: - Auteur:Sawler, SarahSommaire:
Did you know that the Halifax? Dartmouth ferry was once operated by a team of nine horses? Or that Babe Ruth used to visit Yarmouth regularly for hunting and fishing vacations? Enter journalist Sarah Sawler: your guide to discovering...
- Auteur:Lawson, JulieSommaire:
It's 1917 in Halifax, Nova Scotia. The First World War is raging, and despite its distance from the conflict, the Halifax Harbour is bustling with activity. Anti-German prejudice is rampant, and though 12-year-old Maddie Schroeder and...
- Auteur:Bruneau, CarolSommaire:
It's 1943. Enman and Una Greene are newly married. Each is haunted by their respective pasts, and each harbours secrets. They have hopes of a happy life together-though they have little idea how to create such a life. Enman brings Una...
- Auteur:Macdonald, FrankSommaire:
A coming of age story about Roddie Gillies and his guardian and grandfather Calum, one of the last remaining Gaelic speakers in the once-proud mining town of Shean. A quiet and stoic man, Calum and his aging friends illuminate for us...
- Auteur:Doucette, DavidSommaire:
At 46, Miles Hann gives it all up for the little cottage he has built on the slopes of his native Ingonish, Cape Breton. Miles has five times circumnavigated the globe and in his years of wandering has grown weary of man’s work of...
- Auteur:Eagles, Douglas EatonSommaire:
In 1759/1760, the Township of Horton was bordered by the Gaspereau and Habitant Rivers and included the 'great marshes'. Besides New Englanders from Connecticut, the Township was settled by Loyalist families and Irish immigrants who...
- Auteur:Oliver, DonaldSommaire:
Growing up in the only Black family in Wolfville, Nova Scotia, Donald Oliver felt duty-bound to honour his great-grandparents, who had fled slavery in the US. His childhood, surrounded by music, family, and respected, hard-working role...
- Auteur:Macdonald, FrankSommaire:
Smallish and inelegant, Shean?s postwar, post-industrial economy is in desperate disrepair, and the lengths that some civic leaders will go to in order to do "what?s best" sometimes requires a leap of faith that has unintended...
- Auteur:Best, LauraSommaire:
Witches are hated in Württemberg, Germany, in the eighteenth century. It’s not so long since they were burned, and any woman who knows too much, who’s too clever or quick or skilled at healing, is suspect. Young Lilli knows this, and...
- Auteur:Simmons, MollySommaire:
It's Christmas Eve in the fair town of Amherst, Nova Scotia, and sparkling snowflakes crown the pointed roofs of houses as stately as Victorian ladies. It has been a day of well-loved traditions: visits to the ill and elderly,...
- Auteur:Thompson, BrendaSommaire:
A history of the poor house evolution in Nova Scotia, based on British Elizabethan Poor Laws. Includes profiles of the 32 government-sponsored poor houses built in the province between 1885 and 1972.
- Auteur:LeBlanc, TylerSommaire:
Growing up on the south shore of Nova Scotia, Tyler LeBlanc wasn't fully aware of his family's Acadian roots - until a chance encounter with an Acadian historian prompted him to delve into his family history. LeBlanc's discovery that he...
- Auteur:Colvin, JeffreySommaire:
A ferociously talented writer makes his stunning debut with this richly woven tapestry, set in a small Nova Scotia town settled by former slaves, that depicts several generations of one family bound together and torn apart by blood,...
- Auteur:Grant, ShauntaySommaire:
When a young girl visits the site of Africville, in Halifax, Nova Scotia, the stories she's heard from her family come to mind. She imagines what the community was once like the brightly painted houses nestled into the hillside, the...
- Auteur:Nowlan, Alden, Musgrave, SusanSommaire:
The best of beloved poet Alden Nowlan's explicitly honest, direct, and insightful poetry. Now featuring an introduction by Susan Musgrave Alden Nowlan, one of Canada's finest and most influential poets, died in 1983. He leaves a rich...
- Auteur:Kimber, StephenSommaire:
Alexa McDonough's impact on Canadian politics cannot be measured solely by election victories or seat tallies. As the first female leader of a mainstream Canadian political party, she helped transform Nova Scotian and Canadian politics...
- Auteur:Henshaw, BlainSommaire:
Chronicles the last voyage of the gypsum freighter SS Novadoc as she sailed from the Annapolis Basin into a raging nor'east storm in the Bay of Fundy in March 1947. Loaded with 4,000 tons of Nova Scotia gypsum, she foundered off...
- Auteur:Crewe, LesleySommaire:
Can you really move forward without putting the past to rest? Grace Willingdon has everything she needs. For fifteen years she's lived in a trailer overlooking Bras d'Or Lakes in postcard-perfect Baddeck, Cape Breton, with Fletcher...
- Auteur:Hill, LawrenceSommaire:
Lawrence Hill a transformé une page négligée de l’histoire en un roman brillant et attachant, qui transporte le lecteur d’un village africain à une plantation du sud des États-Unis, d’un refuge sordide en Nouvelle-Écosse à la côte de la...
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