Historic Amherst (Nova Scotia) (Images of our past)

by Pauline Furlong and Pauline Furlong

It is hard to ignore the past in a town like Amherst in northern Nova Scotia. The setting fir the Leon Trotsky's internment in one of Canada's largest World War One prisoner-of-war camps and for Henry George Ketchum's unusual plans to build a ship railway, Amherst has witnessed the rise-and sometimes fall- of personal fortunes and revolutionary dreams. Once the battleground for the historic struggle between the English and the French, it has been...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1551093839
• ISBN13: 9781551093833
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: Nimbus
• Length: 120 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 0.4" x 6.5"