In Indian School Road, journalist Chris Benjamin tackles the controversial and tragic history of the Shubenacadie Indian Residential School, its predecessors, and its lasting effects, giving voice to multiple perspectives for the first...
Nova Scotia
- Author:Benjamin, ChrisSummary:
- Author:Davison, NicolaSummary:
When Emily and her family move back to Nova Scotia from Calgary, it is a return to the coastal landscape that already haunts her-and the waters where her father died. She meets her neighbour Linda, a gruff but loving widow and Linda...
- Author:MacLeod, RaySummary:
One day, a couple who had run over a skunk with their car brought it to the Dartmouth Veterinary Hospital. When the veterinarians couldn't look after it, Hope Swinimer decided to take the helpless animal into her care, and that was the...
- Author:Parker, MikeSummary:
Hunting, fishing and woodsmanship are inscribed in North American culture. Once the survival skills of the Mi'kmaq people, they became recreational pastimes for British officers arriving in Nova Scotia in the nineteenth century. The...
- Author:Donnelly, Mary RoseSummary:
Retired schoolteacher Flossy O'Reilly has spent almost all of her eight decades in the seaside community of Great Village, Nova Scotia. It is now a quiet Maritime village: where relationships between friends and family move at the...
- Author:Oickle, VernonSummary:
"Are you afraid of things that go bump in the night? Do you think someone is watching you even though no one is there? Do doors and windows open and close on their own? If you've answered yes to even one of these questions, then join...
- Author:Boutilier, Alex D.Summary:
It begins with the founding of Halifax; the development of Nova Scotia and how it devolved into the Maritime provinces (ca.1785); the failure of Maritime Union, evolution of responsible government and the Canadian Confederation.
- Author:Hounsell, KaylaSummary:
A murder, a missing body, and a sensational trial that gripped Nova Scotia. Will Sandeson seemed like a model son. A member of the Dalhousie University track and field team, he was about to start classes at Dalhousie's medical...
- Author:Knockwood, DougSummary:
Mi'kmaw elder Doug Knockwood recounts the story of his life.
- Author:Nowlan, Alden, Bartlett, BrianSummary:
Alden Nowlan (1933-1983) once wrote of a desire to leave behind "one poem, one story / that will tell what it was like / to be alive." In an abundance of memorable poems, he fulfilled this desire with candour and subtlety, emotion, and...
- Author:Marshall, LindsaySummary:
Poetry is Lindsay Marshall's way of telling stories, of speaking with others about what things that matter to him. His heritage. His people. His life as a Mi'kmaw. For the reader, Clay Pots and Bones is a colourful journey from early...
- Author:Woolaver, Lance, Brooks, BobSummary:
Maud Lewis has become one of Canada’s favourite folk artists, and her buoyant winter pictures of nature, pets, farm animals, and people at work and play are among her most charming. Her hands were twisted with arthritis, but Maud earned...
- Author:Oickle, VernonSummary:
As a reporter for a weekly newspaper on Nova Scotia’s South Shore, Vernon Oickle became increasingly aware of the expansion of the drug trade in the region. His research into the situation produced Busted! Nova Scotia’s War on Drugs, a...
- Author:Jones, BurnleySummary:
Born and raised in Truro, Nova Scotia, Burnley "Rocky" Jones is one of Canada's most important figures of social justice. Often referred to as Canada's Stokely Carmichael, Jones was tirelessly dedicated to student movements, peace...
- Author:Creighton, HelenSummary:
Bluenose Magic, first published in 1968, is considered a classic of Maritime literature, and its author, Dr. Helen Creighton, is one of Canada's best-loved and most respected folklorists. This fascinating and engaging companion to the...
- Author:Creighton, HelenSummary:
Ghosts guarding buried treasure, phantom ships, haunted houses and supernatural warnings of death are just some of the strange and mysterious phenomena from Bluenose Ghosts. These unexplained mysteries are all based on personal...
- Author:Best, LauraSummary:
Pru Burbidge lives a simple life on the family homestead on Dalhousie Road in 1940s rural Nova Scotia until her father abandons the family and her mother falls ill. Her life is turned upside-down by these events, and she is forced to...
- Author:Johns, LindaSummary:
Winner, Evelyn Richardson Memorial Prize for Non-Fiction. Well-known naturalist and artist Linda Johns shares her woodland home with a menagerie of injured wild birds — starlings, blue jays, pigeons, baby woodpeckers, a rose-breasted...
- Author:MacLennan, HughSummary:
Penelope Wain believes that her lover, Neil Macrae, has been killed while serving overseas under her father. That he died apparently in disgrace does not alter her love for him, even though her father is insistent on his guilt. What...
- Author:Hill, LawrenceSummary:
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...