Seven Days in Halifax is another piece of that history, detailing a seven-day event in 1970 called Encounter on Urban Environment, which was a road show where experts (from away) came to Halifax and held a series of town halls to speak to citizens, industry, and government to get a sense of Halifax.
The story kicks off with Heidi MacDonald being interviewed by the Chief of Staff for the position of Research and Communications Officer with the province’s Official Opposition.
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Bedell explores the life of Steve, former insurance salesman, current husband and father to two children, who is just trying to make everyone happy and earn a living.
Through an unusual combination of circumstances, Ryan Treiber, a lecturer at Saint Mary’s University, is thrown back in time to the founding of Halifax in 1749, 275 years ago. Found by Aubrey De Courcy, a member of Governor Edward Conrwallis’ council, Ryan stays in a camp clearing that is to become Halifax’s Grand Parade.
Featuring Shawn Lawlor, Bryn Pottie, Merilyn Simonds, and David Elias
I read If, After Snow earlier this month, before going on vacation and leaving my poor review sadly unwritten – but oh boy did I spend lots of time thinking about this novel, and how deeply it moved me.
As he wanders, “with thoughts of a hot Tim Hortons coffee…dancing in his head,” he reflects on everything from the seasons to the birds, from Hurricane Juan to Shakespeare By The Sea, from the battlements and the long-horned beetle to “the most common mammal in the park…the Canis lupus familiaris, the domesticated dog”.
What do we stand to lose or gain from our inherited identities? For Cory Lavender, the answer might exist within how he curates domestic musings.
A brilliant novel that ensured I would read anything Tom Ryan decides to write.
In 1979, in the Hydrostone neighbourhood of Halifax, June’s son Gerald goes missing.
In this story that follows the introduction of Big Rory, in Big Rory of Market Square, we follow the tales of this stray Pictou County, Nova Scotia transplant from Scotland after setting sale on the good ship Hector.
In pondering what to write about All Hookers Go To Heaven by Angel B.H., I kept coming back to the idea of joy.
Margo and Dick were together for ten years, and she had no idea she would be facing widowhood at the “tender age of sixty-two”.
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