All Books/Publications
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Hants County History and Geography School Project 1941
$20.00 Add to cart120 pages; 75 maps; 9 page index
In 1941, Inspector Campbell asked students to prepare sketches of local history accompanied by maps. This is the result of their findings which detail such subjects as the Acadians, the Loyalists and local industries.
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The Family Book of Fact and Fiction
$15.00 Add to cartThe Family Book of Fact and Fiction has been written in the hope that family members from grandparents to teens may find something of interest between its covers. Divided into sections, its short entertainment section contains one short play and several contests and readings from my years of writing entertainment material for various groups who held social evenings, or put on programmes in the community halls along the Shore.
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Nova Scotian Vessels Shipwrecked or Disabled in United States Coastal Waters 1875-1914
$10.00 Add to cartThis is an account of more than 250 Nova Scotian vessels shipwrecked or disabled in United States Coastal waters between the years 1875 and 1914.
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South End Lawn Tennis Club: 1890-1998
$10.00 Add to cartThe South End Tennis Club was established in 1890, making it one of the oldest such clubs in Nova Scotia and one of the oldest tennis clubs in Canada.
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Planter Nova Scotia 1760-1815: Newport Township
$15.00 Add to cartThe year 2010 marks the 250th anniversary of the arrival of the first New England Planters in Nova Scotia. Most Planters migrated from Connecticut, Rhode Island, and Massachusetts. Those who settled the Minas Basin townships – Cornwallis, Horton, Falmouth, and Newport – were attracted by the good quality soil, much of it long cultivated by the Acadians, expelled in the 1750s.
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Planter Nova Scotia 1760-1815: Falmouth Township
$15.00 Add to cartThe year 2010 marks the 250th anniversary of the arrival of the first New England Planters in Nova Scotia. Most Planters migrated from Connecticut, Rhode Island, and Massachusetts. Those who settled the Minas Basin townships – Cornwallis, Horton, Falmouth, and Newport – were attracted by the good quality soil, much of it long cultivated by the Acadians, expelled in the 1750s.
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Comfort Me With Apples
$15.00 Add to cartIn 2013-14 the Nova Scotia Fruit Growers’ Association celebrated its 150th anniversary. Surrounding themselves with the best scientific and business advice they could find, the members of NSFGA led the way in the creation of the earliest commercial apple growing district in Canada, for many decades crucial to the prosperity of Nova Scotia’s Annapolis Valley. Comfort Me with Apples tells the compelling story of an enduring agricultural institution.
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The English Romantics
$20.00 Add to cartThe subjects dealt with in this book, are the lives and times of William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Leigh Hunt, John Keats, Robert Southey and Lord Byron.