Storied Shores
St. Peter's, Isle Madame, Chapel Island in the 17th and 18th Century
- Publisher
- Cape Breton University Press
- Initial publish date
- Jun 2004
- Category
- General, 17th Century, Pre-Confederation (to 1867)
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781897009000
- Publish Date
- Jun 2004
- List Price
- $19.95
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Description
For centuries the Mi’kmaq, and later the early European explorers and settlers, shortened their journies between the Bras d’Or lake and the Atlantic Ocean by means of narrow isthmus at St. Peter’s. The portage area and the surrounding shores and waterways of Cape Breton were sites of early and prolonged interaction between the French and the Mi’kmaq during a time when dreams of expansion and empire among European nations, met head on with the realities of North America’s aboriginal peoples.
About the author
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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