Scottish Literary Connections to Canada

  • Cover scan of Chasing The Comet
    Chasing The Comet: A Scottish-Canadian Adventure
    Patricia Koretchuk - Paperback - Wilfrid Laurier
    'Dour Scot' is the wrong description for David Caldow, who leads readers on a romp from the early 20th century to the present, from an insular Scottish village to modern-day multi-cultural British Columbia, from boyhood to old age.
  • Cover scan of Fast Sailing And Copper-Bottomed
    Fast Sailing And Copper-Bottomed: Aberdeen Sailing Ships And The Emigrant Scots They Carried To Canada, 1774-1855
    Lucille H. Campey - Paperback - Natural Heritage Books
    Lucille Campney recounts the days when Aberdeen's 'fast sailing and copper-bottomed' ships carried emigrant Scots to Canada and reveals the processes at work as well as the people behind the scenes who provided the services.
  • Cover scan of A Kingdom Of The Mind
    A Kingdom Of The Mind: The Scots' Impact On The Development Of Canada
    Peter E. Rider; Heather McNabb - Paperback - McGill-Queen's University Press
    The authors present a selection of historical essays demonstrating the early influence of the Scots in shaping Canada's national identity.
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    Never Go Back
    Robert Goddard - Paperback - Corgi
    Harry Barnett is leading a contented life in Vancouver when he is brought back to England by the death of his mother. He intends to spend just a few days sorting out her affairs, but a chance meeting with old RAF comrades makes him change his plans.
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    Northern Dancer: The Legend And His Legacy
    Muriel Lennox - Paperback - Mainstream
    The story of Northern Dancer is the stuff of legend. He was a little horse, dismissed because of his size, but today his descendants dominate racing the world over. This account of the thoroughbred spirit also provides insight into the racing world.
  • Cover scan of Scotland Farewell
    Scotland Farewell: The People Of The Hector
    Donald MacKay - Paperback - Birlinn
    This is the story of the Highland Scots who sailed to Pictou, Nova Scotia in 1773. With courage, tenacity and the help of the native Indians they survived and encouraged further shiploads of emigrants to join them. This piece of Canadian history is also part of the history of the Scottish people.
  • Cover scan of Scots In Canada
    Scots In Canada
    Jenni Calder - Paperback - Luath
    Canada is peppered with Scottish names and Canada's phone books are filled with them. Increasingly Scottish Canadians are coming to Scotland in search of family history and over Scotland there are clues to the Scottish-Canadian relationship, the legacy of centuries of trade and communication as well as departure.

Fiction

  • Cover scan of Midnight Cab
    Midnight Cab
    James W. Nichol - Paperback - Canongate
    Abandoned by his mother as a toddler, 19-year-old Walker Devereux is in Toronto to discover the truth about his early life. In pursuit of answers, he uncovers his family's dark secrets and comes within the deadly grasp of a man whose own early abandonment helped turn him into a murderous psychopath.
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    River Thieves
    Michael Crummey - Paperback - Canongate
    Set against the harsh backdrop of early 19th-century Newfoundland, this story tells of a sequence of expeditions made under the order of the British Crown to establish contact between the native Beothuk Indians and the settler communities.
  • Cover scan of Sick Heart River
    Sick Heart River
    John Buchan - Paperback - Polygon
    Given a year to live, lawyer and MP Sir Edward Leithen fears he will die unfulfilled and disillusioned. He resolves to devote his last energies to finding and restoring to health a young Canadian banker. This is John Buchan's last novel.
  • Cover scan of The Tenderness Of Wolves
    The Tenderness Of Wolves
    Stef Penney - Paperback - Quercus
    As winter tightens its grip on the isolated settlement of Dove River, a woman steers herself for the journey of a lifetime. A man has been brutally murdered and her 17-year old son has disappeared. To clear her son's name, she has no choice but to follow the tracks leaving the dead man's cabin.
  • Cover scan of The View From Castle Rock
    The View From Castle Rock: Stories
    Alice Munro - Paperback - Vintage
    On a clear day, you could see 'America' from Edinburgh's Castle Rock - or so said Alice Munro's great-great-great-grandfather, James Laidlaw, when he had taken drink. This is the story of those Ettrick shepherds and their descendants, among them the author herself.
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    Voyageurs: A Novel
    Margaret Elphinstone - Paperback - Canongate
    In 1810 Mark Greenhow leaves his Northern England home to find his sister who is a missionary and has been reported as lost somewhere in North America. Mark's journey as a Quaker is hard, Canada is on the brink of war with the USA and the continent is vast. He is forced to rely on fur traders and their canoeing skills.