| Edition |
Newly revised fourth edition. |
| Description |
359 pages : illustrations, maps, photographs ; 23 cm |
| Note(S) |
"Originally published as: Nova Scotia : shaped by the sea : a living history / Lesley Choyce. Toronto ; New York : Viking, 1996." -- title page verso. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
The Sea That Surrounds Us -- The Story Begins in Africa -- Cold Wars and Warm-blooded Mammals -- The Land of the Mi'kmaq -- Early Explorers: Myths, Legends, and Maybe a Few Facts -- Sailors Westward: In Search of New Worlds -- Port Royal and the Order of Good Cheer -- A Charter for New Scotland -- Carving Up Acadia -- Acadia: More Than a Bargaining Chip -- Louisbourg: A Fortress City -- A Fortress for the Taking -- The Acadian Way of life -- The Founding of Halifax -- The Rowdy Town on the Harbour -- The Creation of Lunenburg -- Empires at Odds -- The Deportation of the Acadians: "Into Utter Misery" -- The Fall of Louisbourg -- The Land of Exile and Immigrants -- Coastline of Conflict -- Loyalists: The White and the Black -- From Rags to Royalty: Halifax Comes of Age -- 1812 and After -- The Golden Age of Sail -- Sea Crimes of the Nineteenth Century -- Confederation: Nova Scotians Become Canadians -- The Plight of Nineteenth-century Nova Scotian Women -- The Savage Seas -- The Decline and Fall of the Age of Sail -- Dreamers, Schemers, and Telephone Screamers -- Toward the Turn of the Century -- "A Sound Past All Hearing" -- Aftermath of the Halifax Explosion -- Rum and Rum-runners -- The Bluenose -- A Province in Economic Ruin -- Nova Scotia in the Second World War -- The Spoils of War -- The Fifties and Sixties: "A Friendly Remoteness" -- The Tragedy of Africville -- Unhealthy Habits, Unclean Harbours -- Coal Mining in Nova Scotia: A Chronicle of Despair -- The Death of the Fish -- Fish Sheds and Federal Politics -- Tragedy and Beyond: The Sustainable Province -- The Challenges of the New Century and the Path Ahead. |
| Summary |
The history of Nova Scotia is an amazing story of a land and a people shaped by the waves, the tides, the wind, and the wonder of the North Atlantic. Lesley Choyce weaves the legacy of this unique coastal province, piecing together the stories written in the rocks, the wrecks, and the record books of human glory and error. In this newly revised sweeping true-life adventure, he provides a thoughtful down-to-earth journey through history that is both refreshing and revealing. Here, well into the twenty-first century, he looks back at the full story of Nova Scotia from the geological history to the civilization of the Mi'kmaq, the arrival of the Europeans, and beyond to the stormy history of the English and French. Choyce takes a critical look at the wars that helped shape the province, the scoundrels and the heroes who lived here down through the centuries, and the seas and storms that swept through the land of the Bluenosers. |
| Subject(S) |
Nova Scotia -- History.
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| ISBN |
9781989725153 (paperback) |
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1989725155 (paperback) |
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