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My Ancestors Live Here
The history of sacred Mi’kmaw burial sites in Nova Scotia and the woman who has dedicated her life to protecting them.
$24.95, Paperback
Oak Island's First Visitors: Irish Monks, Vikings and Templars
New evidence and research documenting periods of European presence – likely Irish Monks, Vikings and Templars – on Oak Island from 500 to 1200 CE.
$29.95, Paperback
Best Halifax Stories
Anyone who's enjoyed hearing stories about Halifax's colourful past will want to dive into this fun and fascinating collection of stories and photographs!$24.95, Paperback
Halifax: Discovering Its Heritage
Halifax offers 250 years of history to discover: this book introduces the city's rich past with remarkable colour photography.
$24.95, Paperback
Lunenburg: Then and Now (New Edition)
Illustrated with dozens of full-colour photographs and historical visuals, Lunenburg: Then and Now is an exciting, up-to-date tour of one of Canada's most distinctive and fascinating towns.
$24.95, Paperback
Mass Murder, Police Mayhem
A layperson’s guide to the report that explains how the senseless tragedy in Portapique happened, and how we can prevent such violence in the future.
$24.95, Paperback
Dead in Halifax: Stories of Adventure, Scandal, Heartbreak and Heroism
Stories from the lives of the notable and the notorious who ended up in Halifax’s five historic downtown cemeteries
$24.95, Paperback
The Halifax Public Gardens
A fully illustrated account of the creation and maintenance of Canada’s finest Victorian public gardens, and the story of how severe hurricane destruction led to a beautiful and sensitive restoration.
$34.95, Paperback
J.L. Ilsley: A Political Biography
This biography of J. L. Ilsley offers a new vantage point on Mackenzie King’s Liberal government during the Second World War and a portrait of a fiscal conservative who opened the floodgates of spending while clamping down on profiteering and the rich.
$27.95, Paperback
Oak Island Illustrated
A full-colour illustrated book bringing together every major theory about who buried treasure on Nova Scotia’s famed Oak Island, explaining how they could have done it and why they selected this remote location — heavily illustrated with artwork, photographs, maps and artifacts.
$29.95, Paperback
Hand Drawn Halifax
Immensely appealing colourful drawings and a quirky but affectionate view of the neighbourhoods of Halifax$24.95, Paperback
Rebuilding Halifax
A scholarly history of the Halifax Relief Commission after the Halifax Explosion of 1917.
$27.95, Paperback
Adventures in Bubbles and Brine
Moscovitch demystifies the process of fermentation as he takes us on a fascinating, and often humorous, culinary adventure across Nova Scotia.$27.95, Paperback
Birchtown and the Black Loyalist Experience
This book describes the experiences of Black Loyalists who took up the British offer of freedom in exchange for their support in the American Revolution. Some fleeing from slavery, the Black Loyalists encountered hardships, racism, and neglect at the hands of the British authorities.$16.95, Paperback
Oak Island and its Lost Treasure
Two experienced mining engineers familiar with the history of mining technologies reveal the time period and the design logic of the flood tunnels which have prevented looting of the treasure buried on Nova Scotia's Oak Island.$24.95, Paperback
Bluenose
The extensively illustrated story of Nova Scotia's iconic Bluenose$19.95, Paperback
Alexander Graham Bell
The world of communications was forever changed by his invention of the telephone, but that's not all Alexander Graham Bell put his mind to$16.95, Paperback
Halifax Explosion
An extensively illustrated short account of the moments before and after the largest man-made explosion to date, all in the bustling harbour city of Halifax$16.95, Paperback
400 Years in 365 Days
A fun, trivia-filled book featuring over a thousand entries from the communities and peoples of Nova Scotia.
$34.95, Hardcover