Formac imprint: 73 books
Fiction Treasures by Maritime Writers
Best-selling novelists of Canadas Maritime provinces 1860-1950
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2015
Though little known today, from 1860 to 1940 Canadian novelists from the Maritime provinces were writing highly successful books which were widely read in Canada, the US, and Britain. Although today only Lucy Maud Montgomery is remembered and read, there were several dozen writers who enjoyed the...
East Coast NHLers
The stories of the lives and careers of players from the Maritimes and Newfoundland
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2012
Only in the 1960s did NHL teams start to look for hockey talent east of Quebec. Then the stream of talented players started, culminating with the record-breaking achievements of Cole Harbour, Nova Scotia's Sidney Crosby.
<>Here are the stories of a dozen NHL hockey players who learned...
Billy Bishop
Top Canadian Flying Ace
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Billy Bishop was the top Canadian flying ace in the First World War, credited officially with a record-breaking 75 victories. He was a highly skilled pilot and an accurate shot. Bishop went from being the most decorated war hero in Canadian history to a crusader for peace, writing the book Winged...
by Ted Staunton
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2012
Morgan is not pleased when his parents sign him up to play floor hockey at the community centre; he stinks at hockey and it's no fun. So when Aldeen Hummel, the Godzilla of Grade Three and a good hockey player, is unhappily signed up for piano lessons, Morgan crafts a plan to trade places.
South End Boy
Growing up in Halifax in the tumultuous '30s and '40s
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2015
In this memoir Jim Bennet introduces us to Halifax of the 1930s and '40s: one full of coal smoke and rival gangs, chuffing freight trains and pine tar soap. He takes the reader along with him ''down the bank'' and off to adventures all over the city's south end and beyond, offering a glimpse of childhood...
Mysteries, Legends and Myths of the First World War
Canadian soldiers in the trenches and in the air
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
This book offers a close-up look at the First World War as it was experienced by ordinary Canadian soldiers. It portrays the war experience of tens of thousands of young Canadians. Reading their accounts offers a no-holds-barred picture of fighting, life in the trenches, the human cost in lives lost,...
Captain James Cook in Atlantic Canada
The adventurer and map maker's formative years
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2010
The skills, knowledge and experience that took Captain James Cook to the South Seas and around the world seemed to come out of nowhere. In fact, as author Jerry Lockett has discovered, their foundation was laid during the time he spent in Atlantic Canada. His experiences on Canada's east coast and...
Valour at Vimy Ridge
The Great Canadian Victory of World War I
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
The battle of Vimy Ridge in April 1917 saw Canadian troops storm a 14-kilometre long escarpment that was believed to be impregnable. This was the first time in Canada�s history that a corps-sized formation fought together as a unit under its own leadership. Canadian troops persevered under heavy...
Shipwrecks Off the East Coast
Harrowing Tales of Rescue and Disaster
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Shipwrecks Off the East Coast tells the stories of nine ill-fated vessels as they navigated the often treacherous waters of the Atlantic region. Among them: the wreck of the SS Atlantic, only miles from safety in Halifax, where 562 people perished, including all women and children aboard but one solitary...
by Dianne Marshall
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2012
CBC Radio's Information Morning history columnist Dianne Marshall is well known for the lively and surprising true stories she tells about Nova Scotia's past. Now the best of them have been gathered together in this enjoyable book.
The stories cover 250 years of Nova Scotia history, often featuring...
An Arctic Man
The classic account of sixty-five years in Canada's North
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2011
Ernie Lyall was born in Labrador in 1910 and joined the Hudson's Bay Company at a time when it was expanding its presence in the Eastern Arctic. He spent many years as a front-line player with the company, building stores and developing trade with the local people. He became part of the Inuit community...
The Discovery of Weather
Stephen Saxby, the tumultuous birth of weather forecasting, and Saxby's Gale of 1869
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2012
In the mid-nineteenth century, the new science of weather forecasting was fraught with controversy on both sides of the Atlantic. In the United States, a bitter dispute about the nature of storms had raged for decades, and forecasting was hampered by turf wars then halted by the Civil War. Forecasters...
by Richard B. Goldbloom
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
As a longtime pediatrician, Richard Goldbloom placed a high value on connecting with and communicating with his patients and their parents. His ability to reach an audience is evident in this engaging memoir of his life.
Born and raised in a Jewish medical family in Montreal at a time when...
Loyalist Rebellion in New Brunswick
A defining conflict for Canada's political culture
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2013
The American refugees who fled north to Canada after Britain's defeat by the revolutionary U.S. army were determined to build a culture separate from the U.S. By their numbers and their politics they became effectively the founders of English Canada.
In 1784 Britain carved out the new province,...