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Sable Island in black and white / Jill Martin Bouteillier.

by Bouteillier, Jill Martin.

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Nimbus Publishing, 2016.

Island people -- Nova Scotia -- History.

Atlantic Book Award for Historical Writing.

Sable Island (N.S.) -- History -- Pictorial works.

Sable Island (N.S.) -- History.

Sable Island (N.S.) -- Description and travel.

Images of our past.

9781771083812 (pbk.)

x, 124 pages : illustrations

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"A fascinating look at day-to-day life on Nova Scotia's most secluded outpost during the nineteenth century. Travel back in time to 1884 when author Jill Martin-Bouteillier's great aunt Trixie was growing up on this isolated spit of sand 160 kilometres from the North American mainland. Trixie's father, Robert Jarvis (R. J.) Bouteillier, was Sable Island's superintendent, acting on behalf of the Nova Scotia government as lawmaker, doctor, dispenser of stores, and, most importantly, head of lifesaving. This narrative history - accented by more than 100 black and white family photographs of the island's famous shipwrecks, wild horses, and visitors - tells the story of a stalwart group of ordinary people who called Sable Island home."--Provided by publisher.

Winner of the Democracy 250 Atlantic Book Award for Historical Writing, 2017.

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