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Geography and History of Digby County
Wilson charts a course which begins with the Mi'kmaw and continues to the Pilgrim Fathers of the Mayflower, Sir William Alexander's Scottish colony of 1621, and the Acadians to the founding of Digby in 1783 by a group of United Empire Loyalists. T...
$35.00

Forburn
Fogburn, the second in Blair MacNeill's series continues the many "down home" tales about life in a tiny village on Nova Scotia's seacoast.
$15.00

Fact and Fancy
Fact and Fancy is Blair MacNeill's continuation of Rev. Greenwood's History of Freeport, updating Freeport, Long Island's history from 1934 to 1999.
$15.00

Tattle Tales
How does a boy from a remote fishing village on Long Island, Nova Scotia become Professor Emeritus in the Biology Department of Guelph University, Ontario? Read Tattle Tales: Tidbits from a private diary and travel Blair MacNeill's life path w...
$20.00

In the Fall
At the close of the civil war, Norman Pelham, son of a vermont farmer, is found wounded in the woods by Leah, an escaped slave. The two become lovers as Leah nurses Norman back to health, and journey north together as man and wife. But Leah harbors a...
$10.00

The Life of a Loyalist
The life of young Christiana Margaret Davis, a Loyalist born in upstate New York, was turned upside down by the American Revolution. A time of struggle and strife, she escaped with her family to Nova Scotia, finally landing on Brier Island in 1789. H...
$15.00

Life on the Tusket Islands
The Tusket Islands are located south of Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, tucked in along the coast from Pinkney's Point to Wedgeport. The islands were once thriving communities with their own stores, twice-weekly freight and mail deliveries. They were an impo...
$10.00

Outhouses of the Island
This is a different history book than I have ever written; compared to the Elliot History, Dwellers and Dwellings and Freeport Now and Then. One day I took my grandson Matthew Outhouse with meto take pictures of perhaps the oldest and oddest histroy...
$10.00

Brier Island's Wildflower Field Guide
Brier Island, with its one tiny fishing village of Westporn, is a little jewel of an island. Sitting "where many waters meet", at the entrance to the Bay of Fundy, it provides an outstanding variety of both its wildlife and its cultural history. With...
$20.00

A Walking Tour of Tiverton
Tiverton is situated on the northeastern end of Long Island, which is off the tip of Digby Neck. This picturesque fishing village was settled in 178 by the United Empire Loyalists, Robert Outhouse and Joyn McKay. It was first called "Petite Passage";...
$8.00

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