Jim Cabot, a widower and retired engineer, endeavors to turn his life around by throwing himself into a four year boat building project that memorializes his late, beloved wife. William (Bill) Gallant, his neighbor and close friend, carries the daily burden of his own wife's dementia together with an illustrious but soul searching career as an inspector with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. Bluenose Country follows the intersecting lives of four Maritime Canadian families, each of whom have confronted disappointing and tragic life experiences. As they meet the challenges of mental disability, physical abuse, homicide and same sex marriage, they learn to balance their lives with their traditional upbringings. In the face of close- mindedness, career changing decisions and the unrelenting march of time, they come to terms with family values and learn that compassion and love can eventually conquer all.

Take an eclectic journey across Canada to seek out our world-renowned natural and historic landmarks, such as the relics of a famous gold rush, North America’s only walled city, indigenous deep heritage, spectacular landscape features, and awe-inspiring feats of engineering.

What do English-speaking Canadians sound like and why? Can you tell the difference between a Canadian and an American? A Canadian and an Englishman? If so, how? Linguistically speaking is Canada a colony of Britain or a satellite of the United States? Is there a Canadian language? Speaking Canadian English, first published in 1971, in a non-technical way, describes English as it is spoken in Canada – its vocabulary, pronunciation, syntax, grammar, spelling, slang. This title comments on the history of Canadian English – how it came to sound the way it does – and attempts to predict what will happen to it in the future. This book will be of interest to students of linguistics.