A history of Nova Scotia, or Acadie (Volume I)

By Beamish Murdoch

Book Overview

Before Canada had a name, Nova Scotia had a story worth fighting over. A province made in ink. In Volume I of Beamish Murdoch's landmark provincial history reference, the Atlantic coast emerges as a contested meeting-place of empires and communities. From first voyages to settled administration, it charts how communities formed, boundaries shifted, and power was recorded in paper. Its focus is Acadie: a borderland shaped by trade, faith, law, and conflict. Drawing on records and early testimony from public offices and private hands, Murdoch builds a colonial era chronicle of Acadian history and culture, French and British colonialism, and the pressures that shaped early Nova Scotia settlement. Readable yet rigorously documented, it stands as primary source history for curious readers and a genealogy research reference for those tracing people, places, and allegiances across the 18th century Nova Scotia world. First published in the nineteenth century, Murdoch wrote with a jurist's patience and a storyteller's sense of consequence, helping define Canadian maritime history for generations. The result remains a foundational academic history sourcebook for Atlantic Canada colonial era studies and New France colonial studies, offering context behind modern Nova Scotia with a voice close to the documents and debates of its time. Out of print for decades and now republished by Alpha Editions. Restored for today's and future generations. More than a reprint -- a collector's item and a cultural treasure. For casual readers, students, and classic-history collectors alike, this is a reliable companion to return to and to keep.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9353702313
• ISBN13: 9789353702311
• Release Date: May 2019
• Publisher: Alpha Edition
• Length: 564 Pages
• Weight: 1.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.5" x 8.5"