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The creative city of Saint John / edited by Gwendolyn Davies, Peter Larocque and Christl Verduyn.

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Formac Publishing Company Limited, 2018.

Cultural industries -- New Brunswick -- Saint John -- History.

144 p. : ill. (some colour) ; 27 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I. From wild gardens to the gaudy sphinx: natural history in Saint John from 1842\U+2013\1920. George Frederic Matthew, FRSC, and the Natural History Society of New Brunswick / Randall F. Miller ; The Ingleside wild garden of George Upham Hay (1843\U+2013\1913) / Stephen R. Clayden ; The gaudy sphinx: McIntosh, Leavitt and entomology in Maritime Canada, 1897\U+2013\1922 / Donald f. McAlpine -- Part II. The 1877 Great Fire of Saint John: impact and aftermath. “Like a Shakespearean tragedy”: The 1877 Great Fire of Saint John in popular literature / Gwendolyn Davies ; Forged in flame: architectural developments in Saint John following the Great Fire / Gary Hughes ; Grand artistic tableaux: developments in painting in Saint John after the Great Fire / Peter Laroque ; My own Canadian home : E.G. Nelson's post-Fire patriotic song / Nancy Vogan -- Part III Saint John as a Loyalist city: heritage and myth. Loyalists in the attic : Saint John as a Loyalist city from 1833 to 1933 / Greg Marquis ; "The garden of the dead”: The Old Burial Ground, cemetery reform, and cultural memory / Hannah. M. Lane ; Traitors and traditions: Grace Helen Mowat's Loyalist novel Broken barrier / Mary B. McGillivray -- Part IV. “Mournful maidens” and high adventure: Saint John's best-selling authors and flirtation with Hollywood. A changed heart : May Agnes Fleming's Victorian best seller / Bonnie Huskins ; Suspense and adventure for young readers: James De Mille's 1871 Fire in the woods / George L. Parker ; “Pay dirt in paperbacks” : Dan Ross and the popular fiction market / Janet B. Fiskney ; Reimagining the creative city: Saint. John and Hollywood / Mark Blagrave.

"This book presents a wide-ranging portrayal of the creative work done in Saint John in the hundred years following Confederation. Beautiful watercolour and oil paintings, early fossil discoveries, successful bestselling authors and other examples of the creative city are brought together in this volume. Among the many surprising and interesting accounts: the contribution to Maritime natural history made by a butterfly found in the city, the role of the city's Great Fire in generating a host of visual artists documenting the urban landscape, and the little-known Hollywood connection that made the city a hotbed of film production--in the early 1900s."--Publisher.

Davies, Gwendolyn.

Verduyn, Christl, 1953-

Larocque, Peter J.

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