Helen Creighton

Author : Helen 1899-1989 Creighton
Publisher : Hassell Street Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1015026648

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Bluenose Ghosts by Helen 1899-1989 Creighton Pdf

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Author : Helen Creighton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : History
ISBN : IND:39000005847467

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Folklore of Lunenburg County, Nova Scotia by Helen Creighton Pdf

Author : Ian McKay
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : 9780773575431

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Quest of the Folk by Ian McKay Pdf

Ian McKay shows how the tourism industry & cultural producers have manipulated the cultural identity of Nova Scotia to project traditional folk values. He offers analysis of the infusion of folk ideology into the art & literature of the region, & the use of the idea of the 'simple life' in tourism promotion.

Author : Clary Croft
Publisher : Halifax, N.S. : Nimbus
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1551092891

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Helen Creighton by Clary Croft Pdf

Helen Creighton made a remarkable contribution towards retrieving the stories, songs, and legends that have shaped the culture and the people of the Maritimes. Written by her protégé, Clary Croft, this biography offers both a portrait of a woman woven into the fabric of Canadian folklore, and a glimpse into the social mores of her time.

Author : Helen Creighton
Publisher : Nimbus+ORM
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2014-07-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781771082600

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Bluenose Magic by Helen Creighton Pdf

A collection of traditional Nova Scotian folktales, superstitions and home remedies compiled by the Canadian folklorist and author of Bluenose Ghosts. Beginning in 1928, Dr. Helen Creighton traveled across her native Nova Scotia seeking out and recording its rich heritage in the form of ghost stories, folktales, and folksongs. She first shared her findings in 1957 with the collection Bluenose Ghosts, and followed its success eleven years later with Bluenose Magic, both of which are considered classics of Maritime literature. This fascinating volume welcomes readers into a supernatural world of witchcraft, enchantment, and buried treasure. It shares stories of the region’s indigenous Mi’kmaq people as well as variations of tales brought over from Europe. Here too are folk remedies, dream interpretation, divination, superstitions, and more that has been passed on from generation to generation of Nova Scotia’s families

Author : Helen Creighton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : IND:39000005833236

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Helen Creighton by Helen Creighton Pdf

Author : Helen Doss
Publisher : Northeastern University Press
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2014-12-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781555538491

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The Family Nobody Wanted by Helen Doss Pdf

Doss's charming, touching, and at times hilarious chronicle tells how each of the children, representing white, Chinese, Japanese, Filipino, Korean, Mexican, and Native American backgrounds, came to her and husband Carl, a Methodist minister. She writes of the way the "unwanted" feeling was erased with devoted love and understanding and how the children united into one happy family. Her account reads like a novel, with scenes of hard times and triumphs described in vivid prose. The Family Nobody Wanted, which inspired two films, opened doors for other adoptive families and was a popular favorite among parents, young adults, and children for more than thirty years. Now this edition will introduce the classic to a new generation of readers. An epilogue by Helen Doss that updates the family's progress since 1954 will delight the book's loyal legion of fans around the world.

Author : Helen Creighton,Calum MacLeod
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:929650175

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Gaelic Songs in Nova Scotia by Helen Creighton,Calum MacLeod Pdf

Author : Helen Creighton
Publisher : Hantsport, N.S. : Lancelot Press
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : UOM:39015018614423

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The Best of Helen Creighton by Helen Creighton Pdf

Author : Ronan O'Driscoll
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2021-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1777293782

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Poor Farm by Ronan O'Driscoll Pdf

Ronan O'Driscoll's novel follows two people on the autism spectrum--one the child of the narrator, and the other a boy confined to a Poor Farm in Nova Scotia in the 19th century. The tale explores the attitudes and assumptions that contorted and contort the way we deal with neurodivergent people, and take us into the Dickensian grimness of Victorian-era poor houses and official policies for "dealing with" the poor and the weak.

Author : Irene Hunt
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2002-01-08
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781101127940

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Across Five Aprils by Irene Hunt Pdf

The Newbery Award-winning author of Up a Road Slowly presents the unforgettable story of Jethro Creighton—a brave boy who comes of age during the turbulent years of the Civil War. In 1861, America is on the cusp of war, and young Jethro Creighton is just nine-years-old. His brother, Tom, and his cousin, Eb, are both of fighting age. As Jethro's family is pulled into the conflict between the North and the South, loyalties are divided, dreams are threatened, and their bonds are put to the test in this heart-wrenching, coming of age story. “Drawing from family records and from stories told by her grandfather, the author has, in an uncommonly fine narrative, created living characters and vividly reconstructed a crucial period of history.”—Booklist

Author : Helen Creighton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Folk songs
ISBN : MINN:31951001728758H

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Maritime Folk Songs by Helen Creighton Pdf

Author : Conor Creighton
Publisher : Gill Books
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2021-04-02
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 0717190404

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This Is It by Conor Creighton Pdf

This is It is a practical meditation guide that uses humour to teach the benefits of mindfulness through a series of accessible techniques. It's also a hilarious account of one man's attempt to find peace in a chaotic life, and follows his journey from the bogs of Kildare to the bright lights of LA, and on to enlightenment in India. However, despite travelling the world he found that much of the wisdom he discovered had parallels in Irish attitudes to life, that there's an intersection between ancient wisdom and what Irish people lick off the stones. Now a meditation teacher in Berlin, Morocco and Dublin, Conor gently and skillfully explains the lessons he's learned along the way to finding peace, and with warmth, wit and wisdom guides you on the path to a more mindful life.

Author : Heather Marshall
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2023-02-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781668013694

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Looking for Jane by Heather Marshall Pdf

This “clever and satisfying” (Associated Press) #1 international bestseller for fans of Kristin Hannah and Jennifer Chiaverini follows three women who are bound together by a long-lost letter, a mother’s love, and a secret network of women fighting for the right to choose—inspired by true stories. 2017: When Angela Creighton discovers a mysterious letter containing a life-shattering confession, she is determined to find the intended recipient. Her search takes her back to the 1970s when a group of daring women operated an illegal underground abortion network in Toronto known only by its whispered code name: Jane. 1971: As a teenager, Dr. Evelyn Taylor was sent to a home for “fallen” women where she was forced to give up her baby for adoption—a trauma she has never recovered from. Despite the constant threat of arrest, she joins the Jane Network as an abortion provider, determined to give other women the choice she never had. 1980: After discovering a shocking secret about her family, twenty-year-old Nancy Mitchell begins to question everything she has ever known. When she unexpectedly becomes pregnant, she feels like she has no one to turn to for help. Grappling with her decision, she locates “Jane” and finds a place of her own alongside Dr. Taylor within the network’s ranks, but she can never escape the lies that haunt her. Looking for Jane is “a searing, important, beautifully written novel about the choices we all make and where they lead us—as well as a wise and timely reminder of the difficult road women had to walk not so long ago” (Kristin Harmel, New York Times bestselling author).

Author : Erin Morton
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2016-11-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780773599864

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For Folk’s Sake by Erin Morton Pdf

Folk art emerged in twentieth-century Nova Scotia not as an accident of history, but in tandem with cultural policy developments that shaped art institutions across the province between 1967 and 1997. For Folk’s Sake charts how woodcarvings and paintings by well-known and obscure self-taught makers - and their connection to handwork, local history, and place - fed the public’s nostalgia for a simpler past. The folk artists examined here range from the well-known self-taught painter Maud Lewis to the relatively anonymous woodcarvers Charles Atkinson, Ralph Boutilier, Collins Eisenhauer, and Clarence Mooers. These artists are connected by the ways in which their work fascinated those active in the contemporary Canadian art world at a time when modernism – and the art market that once sustained it – had reached a crisis. As folk art entered the public collection of the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia and the private collections of professors at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, it evolved under the direction of collectors and curators who sought it out according to a particular modernist aesthetic language. Morton engages national and transnational developments that helped to shape ideas about folk art to show how a conceptual category took material form. Generously illustrated, For Folk’s Sake interrogates the emotive pull of folk art and reconstructs the relationships that emerged between relatively impoverished self-taught artists, a new brand of middle-class collector, and academically trained professors and curators in Nova Scotia’s most important art institutions.