Building New Brunswick: An Architectural History
by John Leroux & Gary Hughes
Building New Brunswick takes us on a journey through time and place to discover this province’s architectural legacy. Beginning with the homes of the Mi’kmaq and Maliseet, we move forward through the past: Acadian and Loyalist settlement, colonial and post-colonial periods, both post-World War eras, and on into the 21st century. A wealth of photographs, engravings, and architectural renderings complement the text. Examining domestic buildings, public architecture, commercial structures, bridges, and industrial sites, this beautifully designed book documents the history of the province’s architecture and the many influences contributing to its visual landscape.
Hope Restored: The American Revolution and the Founding of New Brunswick
by Robert L. Dallison
Few Canadians realize how close the colony of Nova Scotia came to joining the American Revolutionary War in 1775. Many Nova Scotians were immigrants from New England, including the Planers who, some twenty years earlier, had taken over the farms of the expelled Acadians. Between family ties and unrestrained privateering, there was much sympathy in Nova Scotia for the American Patriots. In Hope Restored, Robert Dallison tells the story of how the British raised two regiments and sent their members to the area that, as a result, became New Brunswick, thus overcoming the groundswell and fending off Patriot attacks.
The Lost Wilderness: Rediscovering W.F. Ganong’s New Brunswick
by Nicholas Guitard
Every summer between 1882 and 1929, naturalist William Francis Ganong travelled through the wilderness of New Brunswick, systematically mapping previously uncharted territories, taking photographs, and documenting observations on the physical geography of the province that laid the foundations for the modern study of New Brunswick’s rich natural history. In The Lost Wilderness, acclaimed photographer and naturalist Nicholas Guitard retraces many of these journeys, comparing his notes with those recorded by Ganong in handwritten travel journals and published articles and monographs. Richly illustrated with archival maps and photographs made by Ganong alongside the author’s own stunning photography, The Lost Wilderness finds a New Brunswick both utterly changed and amazingly similar to the wild place Ganong found a century ago. Nicholas Guitard revisits Ganong’s explorations and, in a warm and conversational style, illuminates Ganong’s contributions to our present geographical knowledge of New Brunswick and traces the effects of millennia of glacial erosion and tectonic upheaval as well as the more recent effects of human settlement and resource exploitation.
The Sea Wins
by Eric Allaby
A fascinating narrative and pictorial history of over forty shipwrecks in the dynamic Bay of Fundy region, one of the seven wonders of North America, bordering Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and the state of Maine. The lore of shipwrecks makes up an important part of the history and heritage of the Fundy region. Featuring dozens of paintings and drawings by the author, The Sea Wins: Shipwrecks of the Bay of Fundy vividly recounts more than forty dramatic tales of the real people who faced great odds in their sailing ships, only to discover that inevitably, the sea wins.
Tidal Life: A Natural History of the Bay of Fundy
by Harry Thurston
On Fundy, the tide dominates all life, from single-celled algae to man, from the myriad mud shrimp (63,000 per square metre of mudflat) to the extremely rare right whale. In examining this unique piece of Canada’s geography, Thurston has produced a substantial work, packed with facts, atmosphere, anecdotes, human interest items, and – throughout – reasoned arguments against harnessing the Fundy tides as a power source. With a style that verges on the poetic, Thurston examines in detail specifics such as brush weir “farming”, peppers (semipalmated sandpipers), shad, clam digging, fossils, salt marshes, dulse gathering, and so on. Regardless of the facet of Fundy he’s examining, he projects the same argument: put a power dam on Fundy, and this unique ecology will be irreparably upset.
With Axe and Bible: The Scottish Pioneers of New Brunswick
by Licille H. Campey
New Brunswick’s enormous timber trade attracted the first wave of Scots in the late 18th century. As economic conditions in Scotland worsened, the flow of emigrants increased, creating distinctive Scottish communities along the province’s major timber bays and river frontages. While Scots relied on the timber trade for economic sustenance, their religion offered another form of support. It sustained them in a spiritual and cultural sense. These two themes, the axe and the bible, underpin their story. Using wide-ranging documentary sources, including passenger lists and newspaper shipping reports, the book traces the progress of Scottish colonization and its ramifications for the province’s early development. The book is the first fully documented account of Scottish emigration to New Brunswick ever to be written.
