À quoi ressemblait la communauté? Des maisons aux couleurs vives, logées dans la colline; des champs où les garçons jouaient au football; un étang où les en- fants faisaient du rafting; la pêche en abondance; des immenses feux de joie...La jeune fille sort de sa rêverie; elle visite le parc historique actuel et le cadran solaire où le nom de son arrière-grand mère est gravé dans la pierre, et célèbre un jour d'été...

As Black Lives Matter protests swept the world, one of Canada's greatest anti-racism fighters returned to reclaim the Black space and Black history to which he's dedicated his life. Eddie Carvery's Africville protest reached its 50th year in 2020. He was just 23 when the City of Halifax bulldozed Africville, an African Nova Scotian village on the shores of the Bedford Basin. Under the disguise of "urban renewal" and using lies of a "home for a home,"...

Stories and photos that bring the people and places of Nova Scotia's historic past to life. Beaubassin was once a prosperous farming community at the head of the Cumberland Basin; Africville was the vibrant home of Black Nova Scotians who struggled to make a living and found spiritual solace in their church. Both are now gone, one a casualty of long-ago colonial warfare and the other a victim of misguided urban renewal. In this fascinating book, author...

The legacies of theaters, hotels, fire stations, flour mills, and more, torn down, burned down, and otherwise lost, are uncovered in this bittersweet collection. Using archival photographs, blueprints, and written reports, Raymond Biesinger has rendered a selection of Canada's most iconic lost buildings in his signature minimalist style. Accompanying Biesinger's illustrations are Alex Bozikovic's descriptions which capture each building's historical,...

Following the Second World War, a new generation of politicians and planners across North America set out to reimagine their cities. With great verve and vision, they conceived of brave new urban landscapes filled with elevated highways, modern housing, thriving businesses, and engaging public spaces. All it would take, they said, was a deep collective capacity to dream and a determined willingness to wipe away the past. And the idea caught on. With...