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We Keep A Light
In We Keep A Light, Evelyn M. Richardson describes how she and her husband bought tiny Bon Portage Island and built a happy life there for themselves and their three children. On an isolated lighthouse station off the southern tip of Nova Scotia, the Richardsons shared the responsibilities and pleasures of island living, from carrying water and collecting firewood to making preserves and studying at home. The close-knit family didn’t mind their isolation, and found delight in the variety and beauty of island life.
We Keep A Light is much more than a memoir. It is an exquisitely written, engrossing record of family life set against a glowing lighthouse, the enduring shores of Nova Scotia, and the ever-changing sea.
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Sustainable People
This book deals with a new role that has emerged as communities all over the world struggle to gain more control over their destinies as globalization accelerates.Community entrepreneurs create organizations that encourage people to learn their way out of poverty, dependency and marginalization. By participating in such innovative ventures, individuals become more self-sustaining and able to create good lives for themselves and others in their own communities or wherever the choose to settle.Sustainable People moves discussion about social and economic change from abstract terms such as “community” and “development” by focusing on what individuals and groups are actually doing to encourage personal and community development, it documents the background of the role of the entrepreneur, the kinds of organizations they create, their learning process and the moral basis of their initiatives.
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Saint John
One of New Brunswick’s best known photographers , Rob Roy lives and works in the historic Trinity Royal area of Saint John. Roy’s photography is at once practical and artistic, bringing together everyday scenes of Saint John and almost missed moments of beauty.
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Mabel Bell
Married to an Englishman in the late 1930s, Lilias Toward spent most of the war years in England, often in danger. She raised a son who is now an able and successful man in Canada. After her marriage dissolved, she returned to Nova Scotia, studied law, practiced it, and became a Q.C. She also planned and built a most unusual motel in the village of Baddeck and called it “The Silver Dart
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Borrowed Beauty
Maxine Tynes is a writer who has lived, studied, and worked all of her life in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. Her heritage goes back to the time of the Black Loyalists in Nova Scotia. Maxine is a graduate of Dalhousie University in Halifax, and is currently a member of the board of governors at Dalhousie, the first Black Nova Scotian to hold this appointment.
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The Mi’kmaq How Their Ancestors Lived 500 Years Ago
Artist: Kathy KaulbachWritten for young people, this small book illustrated by Kathy Kaulbach is a perfect way to learn more about how the native people of the Maritimes lived before white people came to their land.
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Acadie Then and Now: A People’s History
Acadie Then and Now: A People’s History in its French edition won the international literary award, 2015 Prix France-Acadie Prize. The book is an international collection of articles from 55 authors, which chronicles the historical and contemporary realities of the Acadian people worldwide. This book includes 65 articles on the Acadians living today in the Canadian provinces of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, Newfoundland and Quebec, in the American states of Louisiana, Texas and Maine, and in the French regions of Poitou, Belle-Ile-en-Mer, and St-Pierre et Miquelon. It takes an international perspective and provides the readers with new insights on the past, present, and future of Acadian descendants from all the Acadies of the world.