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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Table of Contents     More Content       More by this author     Bruce, Harry,     Subjects     Bruce, Harry,     Journalists -- Canada -- Nova Scotia -- Biography.     Authors, Canadian (English) -- 20th century -- Biography.     Halifax (N.S.) -- Biography.     Nova Scotia -- Biography.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Bruce, Harry,       by title:      Halifax and me / Har...       by call number:      921 B886h     Search the Web     Bruce, Harry,     Bruce, Harry,     Journalists -- Canada -- Nova Scotia -- Biography.     Authors, Canadian (English) -- 20th century -- Biography.     Halifax (N.S.) -- Biography.     Nova Scotia -- Biography.       MARC Display

Halifax and me / Harry Bruce. by Bruce, Harry, Pottersfield Press, 2020. Call #: 921 B886h Subjects Bruce, Harry,   Journalists -- Canada -- Nova Scotia -- Biography.   Authors, Canadian (English) -- 20th century -- Biography.   Halifax (N.S.) -- Biography.   Nova Scotia -- Biography. ISBN:  9781989725177 (pbk.) Description:  190 p. ; 22 cm. Summary:  "In 1971, Harry Bruce, recognized as one of Canada's top non-fiction writers, lost his mind, according to his peers when he left bustling, lucrative Toronto and moved his family to the tough little seaport of Halifax. Harry was already acquainted with Halifax; at eighteen, he lived at HMCS Stadacona as an officer-cadet in the Royal Canadian Navy. He joined the navy chiefly to lose his virginity. 'For what finer way could there be to serve queen and country?' Though he did not achieve his goal, that summer gave him his first whiffs of the port whose magnetism he would one day find irresistible. He settled in Halifax and he moved away. Several times, in fact, even going as far as Vancouver. Yet he kept returning to Halifax. Each time he found it had changed for the better and was a little less like the 'racist, boring, City of the Living Dead' that comedian Cathy Jones called it forty years ago, and a little more like the lively, welcoming, cosmopolitan town he hoped it would be. For the past fifty years, Harry Bruce has been working as what The Concise Oxford Companion to Canadian Literature calls 'an impassioned advocate for the Maritimes and an essayist of great charm and perception.' Here, writing more charmingly and perceptively than ever, he celebrates the blossoming of Halifax as 'A City to Dance In.' Harry Bruce has won a host of prizes for both magazines he has edited and journalism and books he has written. At the annual banquet of the Atlantic Journalism Awards in 2013, he won the Lifetime Achievement Award. At eighty-six, he's still writing."--Back cover. Genre:  Autobiographies. Holds:  1   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status Due Date   Alderney Gate Public Library Adult Biography 921 B886h Adult books Checked in   Add Copy to MyList Captain William Spry Public Library Adult Biography 921 B886h Adult books Checked in   Add Copy to MyList Woodlawn Public Library Adult Biography 921 B886h Adult books Checked in   Add Copy to MyList Central Library Adult Biography 921 B886h Core Collection - Adult Adult Display 1   Add Copy to MyList Central Library Adult Biography 921 B886h Adult books Checked out Jul 18, 2024 Add Copy to MyList Central Library Local History Collection 921 B886h Non-circulating Local History Room - Central Library, 4th Floor   Add Copy to MyList Halifax North Memorial Public Library Adult Nonfiction 921 B886h Adult books Checked in   Add Copy to MyList

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