Nimbus: 150 books
Put Your Hand in My Hand
The Spiritual and Musical Connections of Catherine and Gene MacLellan
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2019
Put Your Hand in My Hand is the lyrical story of the relationship between one of Canada’s most beloved singer-songwriters and his daughter, a talented musical artist. Gene MacLellan’s contribution to the Canadian songbook is legendary. He penned top-forty hits, including “Snowbird,” “Bidin’...
by Bridglal Pachai
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2014
The Nova Scotia Black Experience Through the Centuries is a comprehensive account of the African Nova Scotian struggle to build a vital community in the face of racial discrimination. Originally published in two volumes as Beneath the Clouds of the Promised Land, this illustrated edition has been...
by Dan Soucoup
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
Sitting along the scenic St. John River and tucked into the surrounding wilderness, Fredericton bristles with history as New Brunswick’s capital. With Maliseet, French, and British origins, this colonial garrison town quickly became the political centre for the area as it grew with the efforts of...
by The Honourable Mayann Francis
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2015
Nine-year-old Mayann Francis and her family are travelling from their home in Cape Breton to New York City by train. Everything is exciting to young Mayann, from the beds that fold down to the stop in Montreal to visit friends. Most exciting of all is the chance to show off her brand new purse.
When...
Not My Party
The Rise and Fall of Canadian Tories, from Robert Stanfield to Stephen Harper
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2017
This outspoken, timely book by former Mulroney Cabinet Minister Tom McMillan indicts Stephen Harper for destroying the historic Canadian Conservative Party while prime minister and party leader, accusing him of turning a force for progressive Canadian values into an American Republican-style vehicle...
by Dan Soucoup
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2013
Do you remember the invasion of Newfoundland’s hydroponic cucumber? How about New Brunswick’s ill-fated space-age sports car? In this dynamic collection, Dan Soucoup follows the money trail up the political ladder to deliver the dirt on the most devastating failed business ventures, political...
Play by Play
The Life and Times of Pat Connolly
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2013
Pat Connolly spent more than sixty years talking of, writing about, and analyzing sports in radio, television, and print media in Nova Scotia and central Canada. His clear, sharp voice was known to thousands as the consummate sportscaster and play-by-play man. Pat’s eclectic life encompassed journalism,...
Truth and Honour
The Death of Richard Oland and the Trial of Dennis Oland
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
Truth and 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 seconddegree murder.
Oland's trial...
by Harvey Sawler
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2007
Famed Canadian industrialist K. C. Irving has always been considered the most important figure of the Irving family business empire-an empire of such dominance in its region that only America's Morgans or Rockefellers merit a valid comparison. K. C. was indeed the pivot man in a relentless relay of...
The August Gales
The Tragic Loss of Fishing Schooners in the North Atlantic 1926 and 1927
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2013
Three different fishing communities, three different countries, but in their pursuit of fish on the banks they would have much in common, including the terrors of the North Atlantic storms. The August Gales is a richly detailed history of the banks fishery, the perils of the North Atlantic, and more...
by Deirdre Kessler, Douglas Baldwin
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
In mid-June 1864, the Province of Canada (Ontario and Quebec) was experiencing what contemporaries call “political deadlock”: no political party could hold a majority in the Assembly. The past fifteen years had seen twelve different governments, and few important laws were passed. As a result,...
by Brian Cuthbertson
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2015
When New Brunswick became its own colony in 1784, the government concluded several peace treaties with the Mi’kmaq and Maliseet in the territory that protected First Nations lands. But as settlers, loyalists, and disbanded soldiers moved into New Brunswick, they moved onto the reserves, often without...
New Brunswick
An Illustrated History
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2014
Originally the land of the Maliseet, Mi'kmaq, and Passamaquoddy, New Brunswick has a colourful and significant history. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the province was settled by marsh workers and farmers from northwestern France and thousands of Loyalist refugees from a newly independent...
A Distorted Revolution
How Eric's Trip Changed Music, Moncton, and Me
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
In this narrative history and memoir, journalist, musician, and Monctonian Jason Murray follows the rise of the band that put the Maritimes on the map.
Eric's Trip was a band defined as much by its DIY ethos as its low-fi, discordant music. The four-piece formed in an early-'90s Moncton basement...