Acadian Lives
The Cape Breton Acadian comes alive in this new collection of conversations with remarkable people in an extraordinary place-Acadians of Cape Breton Island. In their own words, this book is a marvelous introduction to their humour, passion, work life and heritage. >From fishing life to the cooperative movement, from daily life to >sorcery and celeb …
As True As I'm Sittin Here
The wit and good humour-ghost tales-comebacks and outrageous happenings-over 200 Cape Breton stories by 34 storytellers, collected by Archie Neil Chilsholm.
Cabot Trail in Black & White
Ronald Caplan has served as interviewer and photographer for Cape Breton's Magazine for twenty-five years. He has received the Barbeau Award of the Folklore Studies Association of Canada, Nova Scotia's Cultural Life Award, the Canadian Historical Association's Award for exemplary contribution to the Oral History of Cape Breton and an honorary docto …
Cape Breton Book of the Night
51 extraordinary and often chilling tales, Forerunners and tokens, ghosts,lights and dreams. And just plain good storytelling.
Cape Breton Shipwreck Stories
These are 15 stories of people determined to live, told by people determined to keep the stories alive. Filled with courage and humanity, this book is a tribute to the traditions of Cape Breton storytelling. From the gut-wrenching journal by a survivour of the Auguste (1761) to John Angus Frasers' hilarious adventures on the abandoned Kismet (1957) …
George Orwell's Friend
Born in British Columbia, Paul Potts (1911-1990) lived most of his life based in London's Soho district, a friend and confidant of many ultimately famous writers. His circle included Dylan Thomas and T. S. Eliot, Elizabeth Smart and Sean O'Casey--and of course George Orwell, a constant friend. George Orwell's Friend includes autobiography and poetr …
Men's Breakfast, The
The Men's Breakfast is built out of short stories by the likes of Frank Macdonald, Bill Conall, Dave Doucette, D. C. Troicuk and more-plus remarkable novels-in-progress by Maureen Hull, Brian Tucker, and Stewart Donovan that stand alone. In a shocking scene that turns on a breath, Joyce Rankin trumpets the challenges to which a woman rises to prote …
Talking Cape Breton Music 2nd Edition
Conversations with People who Love to Make Music
Views from the Steel Plant
Jimmy Hines is just one of the many voices that tell stories of Cape Breton's 100-year adventure in Steel. Told with passion and conviction, Views from the Steel Plant is a proud, vigorous collection of memories of steel plant life. Along with historic photographs, here are stories of racism, bigotry and brotherhood-women who did the dirtiest work, …