History Pre-confederation (to 1867)
Necessaries and Sufficiencies
Planter Society in Londonderry, Onslow and Truro Townships, 1761-1780
- Publisher
- Cape Breton University Press
- Initial publish date
- Sep 2011
- Category
- Pre-Confederation (to 1867), Beginner, General
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781897009529
- Publish Date
- Sep 2011
- List Price
- $24.95
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Description
2011 marked 250 years since the coming of New England and Irish Planters to Nova Scotia. Necessaries and Sufficiencies is a social political, cultural and material microhistory of 18th-century daily life in the district of Cobequid, now part of Colchester County. Vignettes from a cross-section of immigrants detail migration and settlement and the evolution of New England and Irish cultural mores in this wilderness setting.
About the authors
Carol Campbell's thesis, A Prosperous Location: Truro, 1770-1835, earned her a Master's Degree from Dalhousie University. Her article, A Scots-Irish Plantation in Nova Scotia: Truro 1760-1775, was published in the collection Making Adjustments: Change and Continuity in Planter Nova Scotia1759-1800, edited by Margaret Conrad (1991).
James F. Smith’s History of Pugwash and his two-volume Pictou County Census-1871 have been recognized internationally. He has contributed to periodicals such as The Nova Scotia Historical Review, The Gemeentelijke Archiefdienst and Belfast Telegraph magazine.