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AS BRITISH AS THE KING: Lunenburg County During the First World War
By Gerald Hallowell Paperback | $21.95 | 256 pages In August 1914, the long-established Germans of Lunenburg County found themselves facing a dilemma: Canada was at war with Germany. They met suspicions of disloyalty with the claim that their roots were deep in the German states of mideighteenth-century central Europe, long before unification. They were, then, as British as King George V himself.
As British as the King explores life in Lunenburg County at a time when blackouts were enforced, when there were rumours of spies, and when schooners were sunk offshore by U-boats. Intricately and thoroughly researched, this fascinating historical account brings an exquisite level of detail to the history of the war effort on the home front. Historians and Nova Scotians with Lunenburg roots will appreciate author Gerald Hallowell’s passion for his subject—a passion that echoes that of his previous work, The August
Gales, for which he received the 2014 Democracy 250 Atlantic Book Award for Historical Writing.
CASEY:
The Remarkable Untold Story of Frederick “Casey” Baldwin, Gentleman, Genius, and Alexander Graham Bell’s Canadian Protegé
By John G. Langley Paperback | $24.95 | 312 pages Frederick Walker “Casey” Baldwin— athlete, engineer, aeronaut, sailor, politician, activist, conservationist— was a true gentleman, modest to a fault. As one of Alexander Graham Bell’s young associates, Casey was the first Canadian, and the first born in the British Empire, to fly—a full eleven months before the historic 1909 flight in Baddeck of the Silver Dart. Casey became the son Alec and Mabel Bell never had. Dr. Bell described him as “quite a genius… the best blood of Canada.” Gleaned from hundreds of pieces of heretofore unseen Baldwin correspondence, Casey is the untold story of true genius, epic accomplishments, and the stunning failure by Canada to seize upon and recognize those achievements. With this biography, Langley gives honour where honour is due.
TRUTH & HONOUR: The Oland Family Murder Case that Shocked Canada UPDATED AND EXPANDED
By Greg Marquis Paperback | $17.95 | 400 pages This updated edition features a new chapter following Dennis’s imprisonment and successful 2016 appeal, his subsequent retrial, and controversial acquittal in July 2019.
Truth & Honour explores the 2011 murder of Saint John businessman Richard Oland, of the prominent family that owns Moosehead Breweries, the ensuing police investigation and the arrest, trial, and conviction of the victim’s son Dennis Oland for second-degree murder. Oland’s trial would be the most publicized in New Brunswick history. This real-life murder mystery included adultery, family dysfunction, largely circumstantial evidence, allegations of police incompetence, a high-powered legal defence, and a verdict that shocked the community.
WOUNDED HEARTS: Memories of the Halifax Protestant Orphans’ Home
By Lois Legge Paperback | $19.95 | 240 pages Between 1857 and 1970, thousands of children came to live at the Halifax Protestant Orphan’s Home. Some were children whose parents simply didn’t have the means to care for them any longer; others were orphans who had nowhere else to go. Many faced abuse, poverty, and neglect before, during, and after their time in the facility. All were vulnerable young wards, left in the trusted care of an institution that, in countless cases, would ultimately betray them.
In Wounded Hearts: Memories of the Halifax Protestant Orphans’
Home veteran journalist Lois Legge digs deep into the lived experiences of the children who passed through those doors, painting an indelible picture of innocence lost.