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Company Houses, Company Towns: Heritage and Conservation
Editor: Andrew Molloy, Tom UrbaniakPublisher: Cape Breton University Press$27.95Former company houses and towns have meaning. They can inspire attachment and a sense of place. They can be tight-knit but also quintessentially global; their resources and products have served far-off markets while housing a mosaic of newcomers from around the world; they speak to the diversity of Canada and the immigrant experience. Their landscapes, though often threatened with abandonment and decline, are a kind of language that conveys rich and layered stories. They are hands-on classrooms of culture, economics, architecture, politics and sociology.
Taken together, the case studies in this book speak to the heritage and enduring value of these places. Company towns mean a great deal to the people who put down roots there or passed through them. Many of the houses became homes. In Company Houses, Company Towns we also see how some of these places are being commemorated, conserved, regenerated and renewed–not as static museum pieces but as proud living communities aspiring to new economic opportunities and a quality of life.
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Underground Nova Scotia
Editor: Jonathan FowlerPublisher: Nimbus Publishing$27.95Underground Nova Scotia provides an accessible introduction to the archaeologist work being done across Nova Scotia. Edited by St. Mary’s University anthropologists Paul Erickson and Jonathan Fowler, these fifteen essays cover early Acadian, Mi’kmaq, Black Loyalist, and Norse sites, as well as more recent settlements and industries. The collection includes details of new work at some of the province’s established historic sites, including Grand Pre, Fort Edward, and Fortress Louisbourg, as well as less familiar studies and technologies: tracing and ancient portage route through Southwest Nova Scotia, and the use of airborne lasers to chart eighteenth-century land disputes on the Isthmus of Chignecto.
From the lost Black Loyalist settlement of Birchtown to skeletons recently found at the Fortress of Louisbourg, these essays will fascinate history lovers.
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Fredericton
Publisher: Nimbus Publishing$27.95Fredericton, the city of stately elms, is nestled within the Saint John River Valley in the heart of New Brunswick. Founded between 1783 and 1785, mostly by Loyalists and their sympathizers, the city was to become a stronghold for the Church of England, headquarters for the British military and a centre for culture. Dominated by politics and education and rich in history and the arts, Fredericton is home to the Centennial Building, the seat of the provincial legislature, and the University of New Brunswick. As well, it boasts many elegant homes, museums, galleries, and magnificent buildings such as Christ Church Cathedral. Picturesque and tranquil, blending historic charm with the amenities of modern commerce, Fredericton remains the perfect small city, retaining its intimate charm and air of gentility.
This revised edition features several new images of the city.
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Sable Island
Publisher: Nimbus Publishing Limited$27.95Sable Island, the “Wandering Sandbar,” has been the subject of enduring fascination, long known for its many shipwrecks and appreciated for its unique flora and fauna, particularly the beautiful and resilient wild horses that make the island their home. Sable Island also has the world’s single largest breeding colony of grey seals and is home to the Ipswich sparrow, which breeds only on the island. The ever-changing landscape of this island of sand, molded by the intense wind and rain of the Atlantic Ocean, produces natural formations stunning enough to rival some of the world’s most accomplished sculptors.
Sable Island includes over 100 stunning images by photographer Damian Lidgard, images that showcase this magnificent island in its rarely seen splendour. Damian is one of the few regular visitors to the island, and his photography is an expression of the island’s unique beauty.
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Prince Edward Island
Publisher: Nimbus Publishing$27.95In Prince Edward Island, Wayne Bartett and Anne MacKay take us on a spectacular photographic journey across Canada’s smallest province. See the Island during all four seasons, atop the sand dunes at Greenwich, along the scenic Confederation Trail, past the winding coasts and rolling farmland, and onto the Island’s famous sand beaches.
Over 75 full-colour photographs reveal the rich colours of a distinctive landscape and the warmth of a proud people. Wayne and Anne have spent much of their lives capturing images of PEI, and this collection of photographs reflect their love of the island’s natural beauty.
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St. John’s
Publisher: Nimbus Publishing$27.95In Ben Hansen’s St. John’s the professional, award-winning photographer turns his lens on the largest city in Newfoundland. From the colouful bows of local fishing boats to Battery Park and Memorial University, Ben Hansen’s photographs convey the blending of old and new. Through his lens, the viewer will observe a city of great beauty, important historical significance and bustling activity.
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Charlottetown
Photographer: Anne MacKay, Wayne BarrettPublisher: Nimbus Publishing$27.95Wayne Barrett and Anne MacKay are a professional photographic team that have published numerous books including True Colors A Writer’s Garden, and the award winning Spirit of Place. They live in St. Catherines, Prince Edward Island.
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Fredericton
Publisher: Nimbus Publishing$27.95This stunning new look at Fredericton, the city of stately elms, features photographs of the capital city of New Brunswick in all its moods and intimate charm.
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Downhome Reflections
Editor: Downhome MagazinePublisher: Downhomer$27.95Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. So behold—Downhome’s first published collection of photographs submitted by our magazine readers. Every page of Downhome Reflections is a celebration of our place in the world.
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Community Economic Development
Editor: Eric Shragge, Michael ToyePublisher: Cape Breton University Press$27.95Communities have long been ahead of governments in responding to changes in the economy, forging ahead with innovative grassroots projects that now make up a substantial portion of economic development initiatives.
Having made major gains in practice and having built local capacities through innovation, Community Economic Development now stands at a crossroads. In Building for Social Change, Eric Shragge, Michael Toye and colleagues from across the country offer a timely critical examination of CED practices and debates.
This book is designed for CED practitioners, for others working in community-based organizations and those being trained. There are a growing number of post-secondary programs in English Canada that educate students in CED and related fields such as regional development, yet there are not many publications that provide analytical perspectives and debate.
The goal of this book is to describe and analyze CED practice, primarily in Canada, through a wide range of subjects—the evolution of its definitions, economic dimensions and the key elements that form its context.
Building for Social Change situates CED in wide political, economic and social contexts: rich examples of the scope and practices, and some of the limits—in Aboriginal communities, as a tool to support women, psychiatric survivor enterprises, housing and worker ownerships—are explored to help spur further critical discussion and debate.
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A Sea Glass Journey Ebb and Flow
Publisher: Nimbus Publishing$27.95Sea glass, beach glass, sand glass, mermaids’ tears, emeralds from the deep…known by many names and coveted by beachcombers, these ocean treasures are much more than they seem. In A Sea Glass Journey, sea glass jeweller and collector Teri Hall, of PEI’s Fire & Water Creations, tells the incredible story of these jewels of the sea.
Accented with stunning photographs of sea glass and its sources, this beautiful book illustrates the transformative process these gems undergo in the belly of the ocean. You’ll also find simple projects for getting creative with sea glass at home, tips for hunting for and evaluating sea glass, a collector’s handbook of shapes and colours, and inspirational anecdotes from Teri and her fellow collectors.
There’s no need to wait for low tide to begin your sea glass journey.
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Ten Wooden Boats You Can Build
$27.45The beauty of this book is that the construction bugs have already been worked out of the designs. Plans, step-by-step instructions, material lists photographs and detailed diagrams.
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Classic Classes
Publisher: WoodenBoat Books$27.45Packed with more than 150 designs, the focus is on the well-know and still active class boats, yet covers over 125 years of boating. Handsomely designed, color thoughout, the book is divided into three sections: Dinghy/Keelboats, Olympic Classes, and Yachts, and the sections are colorbar coded for ease of reference. Entries include profile drawing, photographs, basic specifications, background, plans availability, class contact, and more. Plus there’s a sail insignia guide, and an index.Designs covered include the Optimist pram, Beetle Cat, Moth, Wayfarer and more small boats, to the Nordic Folkboat, Dragons, 12-meters, IODs, J-class and more. Designers include Uffa Fox, Olin Stephens, William Fife III, Knud Reimers, Starling Burgess, and many many more. This book is a handy resource, and includes all 44 Olympic class boats, just in time for the Summer 2012 Olympics held in London.Author Venessa Bird, is a freelance writer, and former Classic Boat magazine production editor, where she began this series. She sails a 1933 Scottish lugger out of Chichester Harbor, in the south of England.
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Designs to Inspire
Editor: Anne BrayPublisher: WoodenBoat Books$27.45At the present time, fulfilled by their lifelong passion for wooden boats, and with their children-Kathy, Nat, and Sarah-out on their own, Anne and Maynard are searching for a vintage Vespa motorscooter and the youthful feeling that goes with it.
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100 Boat Designs Reviewed
Publisher: WoodenBoat Books$27.45Well-known as the editor of the best-selling annual Mariner’s Book of Days, Peter Spectre lives in Spruce Head, Maine.
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Planking & Fastening
Publisher: WoodenBoat Books$27.45Well-known as the editor of the best-selling annual Mariner’s Book of Days, Peter Spectre lives in Spruce Head, Maine.
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Frame, Stem & Keel Repair
Publisher: WoodenBoat Books$27.45Well-known as the editor of the best-selling annual Mariner’s Book of Day’s, Peter Spectre lives in Spruce Head, Maine.
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Painting and Varnishing
Publisher: WoodenBoat Books$27.45Well-known as the editor of the best-selling annual Mariner’s Book of Days, Peter Spectre lives in Spruce Head, Maine.
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Ten Wooden Boats You Can Build
$27.45The beauty of this book is that the construction bugs have already been worked out of the designs. Plans, step-by-step instructions, material lists photographs and detailed diagrams.
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The Spirit of Scatarie
Publisher: Nimbus Publishing Limited$26.95A stunning new work of historical fiction from the bestselling author of The Spoon Stealer, set on Nova Scotia’s remote Scatarie Island, following three friends whose lives are inextricably bound, and the spirit who guides them.
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Treat Them Where They Lie
Publisher: Nimbus Publishing Limited$26.95When Ron Stewart—a coal miner’s son from the east coast of Canada—took a residency in emergency medicine in Los Angeles in 1972, emergency care was still in its infancy. First responders—often dispatched from fire departments or funeral homes, with hearses serving as ambulances—could put on bandages and perform CPR, but that was about it.
Stewart took on a dual role as emergency physician and advisor (earning the nickname “Doc Hollywood”) on the popular TV series Emergency!—where the fictional accident victims had a better chance of surviving than his real-life patients. Stewart’s life’s work was closing that gap, a mission he advanced by training the first generation of paramedics in LA.
After sixteen years of high-stakes trailblazing in the US emergency medical system, Stewart took on the Minister of Health job in his native Nova Scotia, where he battled long odds and fierce opposition to introduce a modern Emergency Health Services system.
In Treat Them Where They Lie, Ron Stewart and co-author Jim Meek tell a captivating story of passion and determination while exploring the highs and lows of a life well lived. With fifteen colour images, and forewords from prominent US physician and author Dr. Brian Zink and Canada’s foremost medical journalist, Dr. Brian Goldman, this riveting memoir offers readers an unvarnished look at a man who played a key role in the development of modern emergency medicine.
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Somebeachsomewhere A Harness Racing Legend from a One-Horse Stable
Publisher: Nimbus Publishing$26.95It’s November 2006 and Brent MacGrath, a car salesman from Nova Scotia, has just had his first glimpse of a gorgeous yearling at the Lexington Yearling Sale—and his heart skips a beat. He takes another look. Even this young, the bay stallion has size and “presence.” Against all odds, and with limited funds, MacGrath makes a successful bid for the colt.
Somebeachsomewhere: The Harness Racing Legend from a One-Horse Stable is a work of narrative non-fiction that follows the life and career of the Ohio-born, Canadian-sired superstar pacer known as “Beach” who belonged to a syndicate of six owners from Canada’s East Coast. From a relatively humble lineage, Somebeachsomewhere turned out to be a horse of a lifetime: a world-champion Hall of Famer, smashing records and setting a single-season earning record as a three-year-old. Many consider Beach, who died unexpectedly in 2018, the greatest pacer and Standardbred sire of all time. Canadian and American racing fans loved the friendly stallion with “an extra gear,” and threw “Beach Parties” whenever he raced.
This is the first-ever complete, generously illustrated account of “the Beach,” a horse who captivated the world with his speed, courage and near-flawless gait. It is also a story of improbabilities and magic, featuring dozens of interviews with top American and Canadian horsemen and women, the owners of Empire Stallions in Avenel, Australia, and harness racing industry professionals.
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The Spoon Stealer
Publisher: Nimbus Publishing Limited$26.95The Spoon Stealer is a classic Crewe book: full of humour, family secrets, women’s friendship, lovable animals, and immense heart.
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Old Man Told Us (new edition)
Publisher: Nimbus Publishing$26.95The Mi’kmaq people have been living in what is now Atlantic Canada for two thousand years or more, yet written history has largely ignored them, presenting them merely as a homogeneous mass or as statistics. Renowned Micmac specialist Ruth Holmes Whitehead, formerly staff ethnologist and assistant curator in history at the Nova Scotia Museum, tries to redress that omission by restoring to the collective memory a true sense of the Mi’kmaq. In this rich collection, oral and written, Mi’kmaq accounts juxtapose contemporary European perceptions of native peoples, as documented in letters, journals, court cases, and much more. Above all, The Old Man Told Us is a historical jigsaw puzzle, a display of fragments of broken mirror in which one can capture moments in the lives of particular people. It is a book of excerpts from whatever scattered documentation has survived over the centuries.
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Frontier Town: Bear River, Nova Scotia A Snapshot in Time
Publisher: Pottersfield Press$26.95Bear River photographer Ralph Nelson Harris captured the village’s waning days of sail and lumber through his camera lens in the early 1900s. Drawing upon hundreds of recently discovered Ralph Harris images, historian and author Mike Parker puts a newfound face to Bear River’s past while utilizing painstakingly researched excerpts from The Telephone, Bear River’s newspaper of the day, to add an informative and entertaining voice to the story. Includes 470 images.
