Images of Our Past Series – lisa Publishing and Vagrant Press lisa Publishing is the largest English-language publisher east of Toronto Thu, 27 Jun 2024 10:53:40 +0000 en-US hourly 1 153484567 Historic House Names of Nova Scotia /store/historic-house-names-of-nova-scotia.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=historic-house-names-of-nova-scotia Tue, 04 Jun 2024 11:52:16 +0000 http://nimbus.ca/store/historic-house-names-of-nova-scotia Mount Uniacke, Acacia Grove, Winckworth, Saint's Rest, Spruce Tree Cottage. Ever wonder how Nova Scotia houses got their names? The better-known names are largely connected with prominent historical figures who resided in commodious homes with sprawling grounds, but the naming tradition was far more prevalent than that. Historic House Names of Nova Scotia provides a fascinating look at the house-naming tradition in Nova Scotia. What sorts of names did Bluenoses create, and what did the names mean? Author and historian Joe Ballard has amassed a wealth of historical information and photos on the subject.

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Sable Island in Black and White /store/sable-island-in-black-and-white.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=sable-island-in-black-and-white Tue, 04 Jun 2024 11:48:09 +0000 /store/sable-island-in-black-and-white.html/sable-island-in-black-and-white The newest addition to the Images of Our Past series, Sable Island in Black and White is a fascinating look at day-to-day life on Nova Scotia's most secluded outpost during the nineteenth century. Travel back in time to 1884 when author Jill Martin-Bouteillier's great aunt, Trixie, was growing up on this isolated spit of sand 160 kilometres from the North American mainland. Trixie's father, Robert Jarvis (R. J.) Bouteillier, was Sable Island's superintendent, acting on behalf of the Nova Scotia government as lawmaker, doctor, dispenser of stores, and, most importantly, head of lifesaving.

This narrative history accented by more than 100 black and white family photographs of the island's famous shipwrecks, wild horses, and visitors tells the incredible true story of a stalwart group of ordinary people who called Sable Island home.

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Niniskamijinaqik / Ancestral Images /store/niniskamijinaqik-/-ancestral-images.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=niniskamijinaqik-ancestral-images Tue, 04 Jun 2024 11:45:57 +0000 /store/niniskamijinaqik-ancestral-images.html/niniskamijinaqik-ancestral-images The Mi’kmaq of Atlantic Canada were here for thousands of years before the arrival of European peoples. Niniskamijinaqik / Ancestral Images: The Mi’kmaq in Art and Photography presents their unique culture and way of life through the remarkable and sometime complex lives of individuals, as depicted in artwork or photography.

The opening images in this collection were created by the Mi’kmaq themselves: portrayals of human beings carved into the rock formations of Nova Scotia. Then there are the earliest surviving European depictions of Mi’kmaq, decorations on the maps of Samuel de Champlain. Finally we see portraits of Mi’kmaw individuals, ancestors in whom we see their “humanity frozen in the stillness of a photograph,” as the writers of the book’s foreword describe.

Niniskamijinaqik / Ancestral Images includes 94 compelling pieces of art and photography, chosen from more than a thousand extant portraits in different media, that show the Mi’kmaw people. Each image is an entry point to deeply personal history, a small moment or single person transformed into vivid immediacy for the reader.

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Acadia University /store/acadia-university.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=acadia-university Tue, 04 Jun 2024 11:42:38 +0000 /store/acadia-university.html/acadia-university Acadia University explores the illustrious institution from the ground up: from its humble beginnings as Acadia College, a Baptist school established in 1839 in Wolfville, Nova Scotia, to one of the top-ranked undergraduate universities in the country. This newest addition to the Images of Our Past series is an entertaining and enlightening history for anyone connected to the celebrated university

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New Brunswick’s Early Roads /store/new-brunswicks-early-roads.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=new-brunswicks-early-roads Tue, 04 Jun 2024 11:41:31 +0000 /store/new-brunswicks-early-roads.html/new-brunswicks-early-roads Except for Roman military roads and the Inca roads in Peru, roads and road-making have seldom attracted much attention. Like fields, fences and old stone walls, roads can seem so much part of the fabric of a landscape that we need reminding that many of them were made intentionally. In New Brunswick, road-building was a great labour performed, as elsewhere, without fuss by often reluctant workers drawn from a remarkably small population. Against heavy odds, New Brunswick by 1930 had roads and a highway system that, in terms of quality and coverage, was the envy of many larger provinces.

A new addition to the Images of Our Past series, New Brunswick's Early Roads follows the development of the province's roadways through the era of post and military roads, the rise of the Good Roads movement, to the dominance of the automobile and paved highways

Over 60 remarkable black and white images document the astonishing process.

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Historic Digby /store/historic-digby.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=historic-digby Tue, 04 Jun 2024 11:29:29 +0000 /store/historic-digby.html/historic-digby An exceptional collection of over 160 historical images from Digby and area reflecting the era from the late 19th century up to the Second World War.

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Historic Saint John Streets /store/historic-saint-john-streets.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=historic-saint-john-streets Tue, 20 Feb 2024 23:20:25 +0000 /store/historic-saint-john-streets.html/historic-saint-john-streets Neither the Crow’s Nest tavern nor the boundary between Saint John East and West exist today, but Crow’s Nest Lane and City Line still do. In this pioneering excavation of the largest city in New Brunswick, authors David Goss (Only in New Brunswick) and Harold E. Wright (East Saint John) illuminate many of the stories inspired by and responsible for the curious collection of street names in Saint John, New Brunswick, past and present.

Culled from interviews with current and former residents, archival and original research, and a dash of local lore, Historic Saint John Streets is both a historians’ reference and readers’ miscellany. Featuring an ambitious sampling of over 100 roads and archival images, representative streetscapes run the gamut from secret shortcuts, to back roads, to main throughways, and offer a valuable new perspective of the historically rich Maritime city.

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Historic New Glasgow, Stellarton, Westville and Trenton /store/historic-new-glasgow-stellarton-westville-and-trenton.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=historic-new-glasgow-stellarton-westville-and-trenton Tue, 20 Feb 2024 23:19:40 +0000 /store/historic-new-glasgow-stellarton-westville-and-trenton.html/historic-new-glasgow-stellarton-westville-and-trenton Well known for its mining and manufacturing activities, New Glasgow, Stellarton, Westville, and Trenton, share a fascinating history. First settled by the Mi’kmaq and Acadians, and later by a large influx of Scots, the area became an important hub supported by coal and steel industries that attracted people from all walks of life.

Author Monica Graham outlines the towns’ coal and steel industries, their businesses and institutions, and their best-known people and landmarks. With over 180 historical black and white images from the 1870s to 1940s, Historic New Glasgow, Stellarton, Westville, and Trenton is an excellent addition to the Images of Our Past series.

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Historic House Names of Nova Scotia /store/historic-house-names-of-nova-scotia.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=historic-house-names-of-nova-scotia-2 Wed, 14 Apr 2021 04:54:11 +0000 /store/historic-house-names-of-nova-scotia-2 Mount Uniacke, Acacia Grove, Winckworth, Saint's Rest, Spruce Tree Cottage. Ever wonder how Nova Scotia houses got their names? The better-known names are largely connected with prominent historical figures who resided in commodious homes with sprawling grounds, but the naming tradition was far more prevalent than that. Historic House Names of Nova Scotia provides a fascinating look at the house-naming tradition in Nova Scotia. What sorts of names did Bluenoses create, and what did the names mean? Author and historian Joe Ballard has amassed a wealth of historical information and photos on the subject.

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