Grand-Pré
Landscape for the World
- Publisher
- Nimbus Publishing
- Initial publish date
- Apr 2015
- Category
- Historical Geography, Human Geography, General
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781771082716
- Publish Date
- Apr 2015
- List Price
- $15.95
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Description
In 2012 the Landscape of Grand Pré, which includes the entire Grand Pré Marsh and portions of North Grand Pré, Hortonville, Grand Pré, and Lower Wolfville, was declared Nova Scotia’s third UNESCO World Heritage Site. This newest addition to the Stories of our Past series details the area’s physical and cultural evolution in an accessible, highly visual format.
Grand Pré explores the interrelationship of the peoples and landscape of Grand Pré, from the legacies of the dykelands to the record-breaking tides of the Minas Basin. With a focus on the resilient first peoples of Grand Pré—the Mi’kmaq and the Acadians—the book explores the implications of the Grand Dérangement, including the arrival of New England Planters, the twentieth-century Acadian Renaissance, and the creation of the “Land of Evangeline.” Includes informative sidebars and 50 colour photos.
About the authors
A.J.B. Johnston has published more than a dozen books and hundreds of articles, a thirty-plus years career studying and writing about 18th-century French colonial history in Acadia. In recognition of his prolific career as a historian and writer, John was invested by France with the title Chevalier of the Ordre des Palmes Académiques (Order of Academic Palms). Johnston has now turned his hand to fiction. Long inspired to know more about Thomas Pichon (1700-1781), In his first novel, Thomas, A Secret Life (CBU Press, 2012), Johnston applied his considerable sense of 18th-century French history to imagine young Pichon’s early life in Normandy and Paris. For The Maze, Johnston did extensive research on 18th-century London.
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Born in Cap-Pelé, New Brunswick, Ronnie-Gilles LeBlanc, now retired, is a former archivist at the Centre d’études acadiennes and historian at Parks Canada Agency. With a Ph. D. in history from Université Laval, his research and publications focus on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Acadian history.
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