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Cape Breton’s Christmas, Book Three A Treasury of Stories and Memories
Editor: Ronald CaplanPublisher: Breton Books$19.95Once again, the heart of Cape Breton radiates through in the all-new Book Three of Cape Breton’s Christmas — another lasting collection of Cape Breton memories and stories, including tales of compassion, hilarious events, touching family gatherings and Christmas far from home — plus memories of the sacrifices that made the holidays work. For anyone who loves wit, celebration and the generosity of Maritimes life — these are stories to be read again and again.
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Women of Courage 15 Cape Breton Lives, In Their Own Words
Editor: Ronald CaplanPublisher: Breton Books$19.95Women’s lives and accomplishments are so often private and rarely shared. Women of Courage offers intimate interviews with fifteen ordinary women whose lives leap with energy, humour, pathos, and power. Hard work, high spirits and abiding love are the threads through their unforgettable lives. Rita Joe, Clara Buffett, Katie Margaret Gillis, Hattie Carmichael, Lexie O’Hare and many more. These spoken lives are reminders of the thousands of women who have been the fundamental underpinning of Cape Breton Island.
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Cape Breton’s Christmas, Book 4
Editor: Ronald CaplanPublisher: Breton Books$19.95The Cape Breton’s Christmas series has become an annual holiday joy! This fourth collection continues to mine the memories and stories of Christmas experiences on this remarkable island. From humorous events to heartbreaking memories, these stories from the heart of Cape Breton keep Christmas alive all year long. And once again, ten percent of all sales from Cape Breton’s Christmas, Book 4 will be donated to Feed Nova Scotia. An extra reason to enjoy this long-lasting gift for home and friends.
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Great Cape Breton Shipwreck Stories
Editor: Ronald CaplanPublisher: Breton Books$18.95One lasting value of any shipwreck is the marvelous stories that come out of those terrible events. Ronald Caplan has collected a terrific batch of stories ranging from the gut-wrenching 1761 winter trek of survivors of the Auguste to John Angus Fraser’s hilarious 1955 adventures aboard the abandoned Kismet II. Walter Boudreau delivers his harrowing account adrift in a lifeboat while his companions died around him, and survivors of the Marine Atlantic Caribou ferry tell of being torpedoed by a Nazi submarine between Cape Breton and Newfoundland.
Filled with courage and humanity–stories of people determined to live, told by people determined to keep these stories alive.
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Great Cape Breton Storytelling
Editor: Ronald CaplanPublisher: Breton Books$21.95From a lifetime of collecting, Ron Caplan offers tales from the rare complex of Cape Breton Island. From a grim sealing trek to a mother’s courage in a windstorm, to memories of drunken hens, to a shark attack. Mackerel fishermen bag a huge tuna, and an itinerant butcher chases a wild cow. The book includes fables from the island’s Czech, Pakistani, and Lebanese heritage in among stories from the Gaelic, French and Mi’kmaq traditions. Good solid reading in one lasting collection!
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Cape Breton’s Christmas, Book 5 A Treasury of Stories and Memories
Editor: Ronald CaplanPublisher: Breton Books$19.95Now an annual holiday tradition, this fifth collection of Cape Breton’s Christmas delivers a batch of memories and rich holiday stories rooted in a beloved island. Here are the moments that take you back, the stories that encourage us to be all we can be. From family gatherings to loneliness to the joy of getting home in time—from parents who give even when they seem to have nothing—this is a generous book that will last.
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In the Pit A Cape Breton Coal Miner
Publisher: Breton Books$17.95A RARE, EXCITING INSIDER STORY of coal mine life in Cape Breton, filled with humour, pride, terror, and humanity.
From shoveling at the coal face and hand-lifting tons of shaker pans, to hurtling through low narrow tunnels testing a diesel during early mechanization—you are not spared the details—or the laughs!
Here are the gripping drama and rich good humour of one man’s daily work underground—a rare, personal account that opens up the culture of coal, from a man who worked 15 years in Number 12 and 18 Collieries, New Waterford.
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Cape Breton’s Christmas, Book 6 A Treasury of Stories and Memories
Editor: Ronald CaplanPublisher: Breton Books$19.95A CHRISTMAS TRADITION IN BOOK FORM, Book 6 of Cape Breton’s Christmas is a fresh annual gathering of warmth, joy, and family love—50 well-told memories and stories shot through with sparks of humour, tears of longing, and small flames of faith. Good reading year-round, this Christmas tradition brings together Cape Breton writers—both well-known and lately inspired—presenting sparkling seasonal gems for readers of all ages. A rare collection that preserves some of the best of what it is to be human. This generous book will last.
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Cape Breton’s Christmas, Book 7 A 7th Treasury of Stories and Memories
Publisher: Breton Books$19.95Here are 50 Christmas stories from the heart of Cape Breton. Now a genuine holiday tradition, this seventh book of lasting memories and terrific storytelling will continue to delight young and old throughout the year. Preserving priceless moments, this is a book of intimate adventures, indoors and out—of the kind usually remembered only briefly at Christmastime, and then gone. Gathered to be read again and savoured, Cape Breton’s Christmas is an all-new and lasting book to enjoy and to share.
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Pearleen Oliver Canada’s Black Crusader for Civil Rights
Editor: Ronald CaplanPublisher: Breton Books$18.00In a winning new book, Pearleen Oliver: Canada’s Black Crusader for Civil Rights brings to life a compassionate and passionate African Nova Scotian, the story of her growth and activism—a book that shows how one woman’s voice changed the course of Nova Scotia’s history.
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Cape Breton’s Christmas Book 9 A Treasury of Stories and Memories
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Warmth of the Welcome
Publisher: Cape Breton University Press$27.95The allure of Atlantic Canada has been widely publicized to assorted, targeted groups alongside colourful pictures of stunning seascapes. Communities in Atlantic Canada have promoted the region’s purportedly high quality of life, contrasting it with the challenges of “big city” life. In the pitch to newcomers, healthy and safe communities and a lower cost of living, including lower housing prices, are featured in the hope that these considerations will entice immigrants to move to, and make new homes in the region. But for immigrants especially, how much of this is rhetoric, and how much of this is reality? Is Atlantic Canada truly welcoming, and what really makes it a home away from home for newcomers in the region?
The chapters in this volume underscore that a welcoming environment consists not simply of ordinary people’s reception of, and encounters with, newcomers and immigrants in everyday life. Beyond this human “warmth of the welcome” in official literature and by the general public, there are also several institutional and structural layers that constitute and frame such a welcoming environment: favourable political economic conditions; receptive community relations including inter-ethnic group relations; the existence of local, national and transnational family networks; and the presence of policies and practices that not only concern immigration, settlement and integration, but also around such issues as adequate, accessible, affordable housing or childcare. These layers of welcome for immigrants and newcomers ultimately lead and correspond to the dimensions of a broadly defined notion of encompassing the intertwined and interrelated economic, social, political and emotional dimensions and processes of citizenship.
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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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Italian Lives, Cape Breton Memories
Editor: A. Evo Dipierro, Sam MiglioriPublisher: Cape Breton University Press$27.95Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, is most often associated with a version of Scottish culture that has evolved in its own unique ways. Though worthy of celebration, that perception tends to overwhelm the realities of everyday life experiences by people from a variety of ethnic backgrounds. A strong and vibrant Italian presence on the island, for instance, dates back more than 150 years.
Italian Lives, Cape Breton Memories conveys the rich and varied experiences of Italians living in Cape Breton in their own words?the immigration experience; work experience in the home, the steel plant and the coal mines, and life in business, politics and other areas of endeavour. As ethnographers, editors and analysts, Sam Migliore and Evo Dipierro help illuminate a variety of other important and sensitive subjects: the treatment of Italians during the Second World War; the maintenance of a sense of cultural identity and traditions; and the sorrow of watching family and friends leave the island for employment elsewhere.
First published in 1999, and long since out of print, Italian Lives, Cape Breton Memories is now re-released for a new generation.
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Ta’n Wetapeksi’k Understanding From Where We Come
Editor: Leah Morine Rosenmeier, Tim BernardPublisher: The Confederacy of Mnlnd.Mi'kmaq$34.95At the centre of the Mi’kmaw homeland, the Debert, Nova Scotia archaeological sites continue to be the touchstone not only for North American archaeology, but for human history. This book contains the proceeding of the 2005 Debert Research Workshop and includes the written contributions of presenters and brings together an international group of scholars and experts in a wide range of disciplines.
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Canada In Colour (new edition)
Photographer: George FischerPublisher: George Fischer$29.95Presenting his images in a more compact second edition, George Fischer’s exceptional photographs are featured in a manner as original and unique as the country itself. Canada in every hue of the rainbow, sorted by theme of colour, creates an energetic dialogue of images. Jacob Richler’s introductory essays exploit his travels and experiences across the country to reflect on those thematic colours and what they represent—to him, in the vision of the photographer, and the appreciation of the reader.
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Canada – The Exotic North / L’Exotisme Du Nord Northwest Territories & Nunavut / Territoires Du Nord-Ouest & Nunavut
Photographer: George FischerPublisher: George Fischer$39.95The distinctive northernmost reaches of Canada are a treasure of unparalleled adventure and dramatic panoramas. Since ancient times the pristine waters, towering mountains, awe-inspiring canyons and changing tundra have captured imaginations and inspired an incredible heritage. With a desire to share the artic tale, Canadian landscape photographer George Fischer has journeyed extensively through the Northwest Territories and Nunavut. His remarkable images will engage readers in the rich tapestry of the true north.
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Saskatchewan: Spirit of the Heartland
Photographer: George FischerPublisher: George Fischer$39.95Spirit of the Heartland takes a new approach to telling a historic story—pairing George Fischer’s photographic art with that of seven prominent Saskatchewan painters and sculptors.
According to sculptor Joe Fafard, George Fischer reveals the true nature of a province that is often underestimated and misunderstood—and the experience is transformative. “He recognizes that Saskatchewan is defined by extremes, and pays homage to the history, culture and nature that have shaped us,” he says. “To tell our story, he bravely journeys into precarious places to uncover what’s behind the faces, the farms, the fields.”
Throughout the book, Fischer’s curiosity takes him into the heart of Canada’s Wild West. He follows in the footsteps of warriors and cowboys, explorers and traders, miners and oil barons who carved the routes to modern Saskatchewan. In richly coloured images, he captures the people’s spirited relationship with Nature through farmlands, horses and wheat; dunes, forests and waterways.
George’s artistic eye brings to light what prairie people have always known: that Saskatchewan holds a quiet, yet stunning, allure equal to the most exotic places on Earth. And he digs deep to introduce readers to Mounties and royals and legends. Time well spent.
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Faroe Islands Dancing Between Sea & Sky
Photographer: George Fischer, Jón Gauti JónssonPublisher: Nimbus Publishing$39.95A picturesque archipelago between Norway and Iceland, the 18 tiny Faroe Islands in the North Atlantic Ocean beckon nature lovers, adventurers, birdwatchers and sightseers. Through George Fischer’s lens, you’ll soar with giant gannets, rappel down sheer cliffs and revel in unspoiled beauty. You’ll stand on hallowed historical soil, admire ancient ruins – and savour the sea’s bounty in Faroese cuisine. And in this country inhabited by more sheep than people, you can learn how to hand-knit a legendary Faroese sweater.
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Manitoba Mosaic
Photographer: George FischerPublisher: George Fischer$39.95One of Canada’s Prairie provinces, Manitoba is centrally located, boasting the distinction of being “where Canada’s heart beats.”
Frame by frame and beat by beat, George Fischer fashions an expansive mosaic from Manitoba’s natural, cultural and historical realities. His striking images reflect the province’s disparate elements while his ingenuity and insight form the mortar that cements the pieces into an intriguing tale. A formula sure to make your heart beat faster.
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Spectacular Northwest Territories, Canada
Photographer: George FischerPublisher: George Fischer$39.95The top of the world brings accounts of sprawling landscapes dotted with lakes and imposing mountains, and a surviving culture that transcends the whims of prevailing fashion. This untamed country will challenge your spirit and thrill your soul.
George Fischer, one of Canada’s most celebrated and prolific landscape photographers has journeyed from the mosaic flatlands and roaring waterfalls to the jagged peaks, capturing images inspired by the joy of discovery. The Nahanni National Park Reserve and Wood Buffalo National Park – both UNESCO World Heritage sites – are just two of the spectacular regions depicted in this new compact edition.
Fischer will guide you on the northern routes and introduce you to the people and their culture. Witness a land steeped in natural riches and lore–a land for the bold and the adventurous. Spectacular!
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Toronto, Shades of Black
Photographer: George FischerPublisher: George Fischer$49.95In this monochromatic take on Toronto, George Fischer offers his own intimate views of the city’s soul and history and glamour. Intriguing interplays of white, black and gray impart an edgy aesthetic that accentuates timelessness, intricacy and romance. Through his lens, you’ll peer into the mysteries behind inky silhouettes, explore watery depths and contemplate textured skies. And you’ll surely see the city in a new light.
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Planet Digby Future Landscapes
Photographer: HMS SmithPublisher: SSP Publications$15.95What will our planet look like 100 years from now? in 1000 years? 10,000 years? Smith’s amazing photographs offer a breathtaking glimpse into the future.
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Des vagues et des ailes photographies aériennes des Îles de la Madeleine
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Where Evil Dwells
Editor: Vernon OicklePublisher: MacIntyre Purcell Publishing Inc.$19.95From the macabre to the fantastical, from the paranormal to superstitions and folklore, from stories of ghosts, monsters and legends, Where Evil Dwells: The Nova Scotia Anthology of Horror has it all. These stories will take you on a wild ride to the extreme limits and beyond the realm of reality. Anyone who loves a good ghost story will want this book. It is a must-have for horror fans!
