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An Illustrated History of Nova Scotia

Twentieth-anniversary edition

by (author) Harry Bruce

supplement by Dan Soucoup

Publisher
Nimbus Publishing
Initial publish date
Aug 2017
Category
General
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781771084895
    Publish Date
    Aug 2017
    List Price
    $24.95

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Description

In vivid, accessible prose, award-winning author Harry Bruce documents, in text and image, Nova Scotia's complex and fascinating history. With updates and a new chapter from author Dan Soucoup, An Illustrated History of Nova Scotia is back in print for a whole new generation.

About the authors

Born and raised in Toronto, Harry Bruce has deep family and literary roots in Nova Scotia. Author of over twenty books and countless columns and articles in every major Canadian periodical, he was, successively, managing editor of Saturday Night, editor of The Canadian and columnist for The Star Weekly. He moved to Halifax as founding editor of Atlantic Insight, winner of the Outstanding Achievement Award of the National Magazine Awards Foundation. Respected worldwide as a writer, journalist and educator, in 2011 Harry Bruce received Atlantic Journalism's Lifetime Achievement Award. His book Lifeline earned the first Evelyn Richardson Memorial Literary Award for Non-Fiction. He continues to live in Halifax with his wife Penny, to whom he credits much of his success.

Harry Bruce's profile page

Dan Soucoup lives in Halifax and has been active in bookselling and publishing ventures for over 25 years. The author of numerous books including Historic New Brunswick, Glimpses of Old Moncton, and the bestselling Maritime Firsts, Soucoup writes a popular local history column, "Looking Back," for the Moncton Times & Transcript.

Dan Soucoup's profile page