nova scotia

Tells the life story of Canadian folk artist Maud Lewis, discussing her childhood, her marriage, and her devotion to painting in spite of crippling arthritis.

Neil, though eager to play an original song with friends in a talent show, resents being in his family's Celtic band--which has a big gig the same night as the showcase.

Alexander MacDonald, one of the MacDonald clan that has lived in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia since 1779 when Calum MacDonald, his wife, twelve children, and dog landed in Canada, remains dedicated to the memory of Scotland and his grandmother's admonition to "always look after your blood.".

Text and photographs recreate life in an eighteenth century pioneer settlement in Nova Scotia.

At the end of World War II, Jeannie Shaw, a lonely young girl living in Nova Scotia's Margaree Valley, hears there is a new student in town and is thrilled at the prospect of having a friend her age--until she learns that the "new girl" is a boy.

Kidnapped from Africa as a child, Aminata Diallo becomes a slave but escapes during the chaos of the Revolutionary War. In Manhattan she works for the British, recording the names of the Blacks who have served the King and earned their freedom in Nova Scotia. Aminata becomes one of these but the hardship and prejudice she encounters in Nova Scotia prompts her to follow her heart back to Africa, and then on to London, where she bears witness to the injustices of slavery.