Historic Mahone Bay
- Publisher
- Nimbus Publishing
- Initial publish date
- May 2006
- Category
- General
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781551095585
- Publish Date
- May 2006
- List Price
- $21.95
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Description
Mahone Bay has played an important role in Nova Scotia's history, contributing significantly to the forestry, fishing and shipbuilding industries, and in recent years emerging as an important tourism destination.
With an emphasis on people and anecdotal history and more than 150 photographs and other images, Historic Mahone Bay covers the period from 1754 through 1960, with the focus on the period from the 1880s to the 1930s.
About the authors
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BRIAN DOUGLAS TENNYSON, PhD, is Professor Emeritus at Cape Breton University, where he taught history for many years. He is the author of several books, including Percy Willmot: A Cape Bretoner at War (CBU Press), Historic Mahone Bay (with Wilma White), Cape Bretoniana: An Annotated Bibliography, Guardian of the Gulf: Sydney, Cape Breton and the Atlantic Wars with Roger Sarty, The Canadian Experience of the Great War: A Guide to Memoirs and Merry Hell: The Story of the 25th (Nova Scotia Regiment) Battalion 1914-1919 (editor).