ISBN: 978-1-77276-116-0 Price: $16.95 THE CANADA COLLECTION Size: 5 ¼ x 8 ¼ 220 pages Vintage Journals for all Canadians Conceived and designed in Lunenburg, these Canadian and provincial journals invite you to imagine a simpler time. The faux-leather hard cover has the vintage look that appeals to people across generations.The provincial flag is Ontario Picnics: ISBN: 978-1-77276-144-3 indicative of not only where you are from but also indicative of pride A Century of Dining Outdoors Author: Lindy Mechefske in place. Price: $24.95 This history of picnics in Ontario is a tour-de-force by Lindy Mechefske, the two-time Pub date: May These are the only provincially focussed journals in the country. Whether your Taste Canada gold-winning writer of Out of Old Ontario Kitchens and Sir John’s Table: Rights held: World customers are business people, visitors or just plain folks, you can bet they are The Culinary Life and Times of Canada’s First Prime Minister. With more than 140 photos, Size: 10.25 x 8.25 hardcover proud of where they live. this book is a visual feast as we look back at a century of photographs, recipes and art Marketing plans: celebrating Ontario picnics. • National and regional print and digital ads The endsheets are done in an antique typewriter font and give the owner the • Provincial media and review mailing Packed full of surprises, this should be on every Ontarian’s bookshelf. • Social media campaign on all platforms most important superlative data and symbols from their province. They • Targeted marketing campaign all contain a quote by an important writer from that province that is intended Lindy Mechefske is one of the most recognized names in food writing in Canada. In to serve as an inspiration for them. Greatness and inspiration can be found in addition to Out of Old Ontario Kitchens and Sir John’s Table, she is the author of A Taste Media treatment: our backyards. of Wintergreen. She is the food columnist for the Kingston Whig-Standard. Her work has Province-wide media interviews by author with daily and community newspapers as well appeared in various anthologies, literary journals and magazines including The New as radio and television appearances and book Nova Scotia Quarterly, the Ottawa Citizen, Grapevine Magazine and Kingston Life. signings. 978-1-77276-123-8 Saskatchewan 978-1-77276-127-6 Spring, 2020 3 Queens County: ISBN: 978-1-77276-142-9 A History in Pictures Authors: Kathleen Stitt, Vernon Oickle and ISBN: 978-1-77276-145-0 Fishing for a Living Linda Rafuse With more than 140 photos, many of them seen here for the first time, Queens County: Price: $24.95 Authors: Sara Beanlands and Travis Crowell A Nova Scotia History in Pictures A History in Pictures offers the definitive look at the county and its people. Since 1929, Pub date: May Price: $24.95 the Queens County Museum has been collecting photographs of the people, industry, Rights held: World Pub date: May With more than 140, never-seen-before photos, Fishing for a Living: A Nova Scotia Size: 10.25 x 8.25 hardcover landscapes and events of Queens County. To date, the collection contains more than Rights held: World History in Pictures captures the world’s most dangerous profession. We see up close 10,000 photographs, many of which are on display at the museum. Size: 10.25 x 8.25 hardcover the men and women (and often children) whose livelihood was derived from the sea. Marketing plans: Indeed, it is the sea that provided not only sustenance and a living but shaped every • Provincial media and review mailing Marketing plans: Over the years, many historical figures, including baseball legend Babe Ruth, renowned • Social media campaign on all platforms aspect of their lives. • National and regional print and digital ads author Zane Grey, and famed Chicago financier Thomas Howell have come to fish, hunt • Targeted marketing campaign • Provincial media and review mailing and discover the riches of the area’s land and sea. This collection captures that history • Historical and heritage groups • Social media campaign on all platforms This stunning historical portrait is a tour de force that will appeal to Nova Scotians and like never before. You can almost hear the call of the wild and the roar of the ocean. • Targeted marketing campaign tourists alike. It is a visual window into the much-fabled life of Fishing for a Living. Media treatment: Province-wide media interviews by authors Media treatment: Kathleen Stitt has a great love for history and its stories of real people and their with daily and community newspapers as well communities. She started her dream career in museums 28 years ago when she began Province-wide media interviews by authors Sara Beanlands is an archaeologist and historian. Her research has been published as radio and television appearances and book with daily and community newspapers as well working as a heritage interpreter and researcher, first at the Simeon Perkins House in the Journal of the Royal Nova Scotia Historical Society, the International Journal of signings. as radio and television appearances and book Museum, and then at the Queens County Museum. Born in Halifax, she moved to Maritime History and the University of Edinburgh Journal. She is an adjunct professor in signings. Queens County as a child. She has an undergraduate degree in English and history the Department of Anthropology at Saint Mary’s University and president of the Royal from Saint Mary’s University. Nova Scotia Historical Society. Linda Rafuse was born in Toronto, but has spent most of her life in Milton, Nova Travis Crowell is an archaeologist and historical researcher with an M.A. in Scotia. She is a graduate of Liverpool Regional High School and in 1986 joined the archaeology from Simon Fraser University. His work has taken him across Canada, from Queens County Museum and the Queens County Historical Society as a volunteer, the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific, and back again. He currently resides in Dartmouth all because of her love of history and genealogy. She has been the director of the with his wife. museum since the mid-1990s. Vernon Oickle is an international award-winning journalist, editor and writer. He is the author of 31 books, including Red Sky at Night, Nova Scotia Outrageous Outhouse Reader, Strange Nova Scotia, Bluenosers’ Book of Slang and Ghost Stories of Nova Scotia. Maritime folklore, superstitions and traditions are his passion. 4 MacIntyre Purcell Publishing Inc. Spring, 2020 5 BRITISH COLUMBIA Everything British Columbia: The Ultimate Book Of Lists Everything British Columbia will take you on a wild romp across the province. From Lainey Lui’s list of the 5 biggest celebrity scandals in BC, to crime historian Eve Lazarus’s list of the 10 most bizarre murders, to chef Tojo’s top 10 delicious sushi ingredients, and Ste- phen Hui’s list of 10 long BC hikes worthy of your bucket list … it is all here. From 11 cities (and 1 planet) Vancouver has played in the movies to 10 facts about the Ogopogo (most of them true) to 10 gigantic BC roadside attractions, this is a book that will wow and entertain you on every page. In addition to 10 weird and wonderful BC museums to 12 crotchety quotes form legendary newspaperwoman “Ma” Murray, and 10 times Kim Campbell was delightfully candid on Twitter, we get well-known British Columbians to weigh in on their favourite things about British Columbia. In Everything British Columbia you’ll also find lists by David Suzuki, Rick Hansen, Bif Naked and many, many more. ISBN: 978-1-77276-135-1 Authors: Bethany Lindsay and If you love British Columbia (and we know that you do), you’ll love Everything British Andrew Weichel Columbia. Whether you are a lifelong resident or visiting for the first time, there’s no Price: $19.95 more complete book about British Columbia and no book is more fun! Bethany Lindsay is the author of British Columbia Burning. She has worked for The Vancouver Sun, and CTV, and has reported internationally for The Cambodia Daily in Phnom Penh. She currently writes for CBC News and lives in Vancouver. Andrew Weichel has written for The Vancouver Sun and WestEnder newspapers. He is currently the online producer at CTV Vancouver. ISBN: 978-1-77276-141-2 Authors: Stephen Ernst Lunenburg: Price: $24.95 A History in Pictures Pub date: May Rights held: World Size: 10.25 x 8.25 hardcover With more than 140 photos, many of them seen here for the first time, Lunenburg: A History in Pictures offers a stunning portrait of this one-of-a-kind port town. From British Columbia Burning Marketing plans: the town’s earliest structures to the grand Victorian streetscapes to the heyday of the • Provincial media and review mailing fishing industry, the Bluenose, and so much more, this book captures the majesty More of British Columbia had gone up in smoke in eight days in July 2017 than during the • Social media campaign on all platforms and dynamism that earned Lunenburg a UNESCO designation and have made it one entire 2016 season. It was a year for the record books. By the time the flames were finally • Targeted marketing campaign of the premier jewels in Canada’s tourism crown. • Historical and heritage groups extinguished, 2017 ranked as the worst wildfire season in British Columbia history. Stephen Ernst has put together the definitive photographic account of this magnificent Media treatment: seaside town. You can almost taste the salt in the air. By the end of the summer, more than 65,000 people had been forced to leave their homes Province-wide media interviews by author and wildfire smoke was choking the air as far away as Victoria and Saskatchewan.