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  • ISBN 978-1-897009-52-9
  • 264 pages
  • $24.95
  • 2011

Necessaries and Sufficiencies: Planter Society in Londonderry, Onslow and Truro Townships, 1761-1780

Carol Campbell and James F. Smith

Winner, Democracy 250 Atlantic Book Award for Historical Writing

Runner-up, Dartmouth Book Award for non-fiction

2011 marked 250 years since the coming of New England and Irish Planters to Nova Scotia. Necessaries and Sufficiencies is a social political, cultural and material microhistory of 18th-century daily life in the district of Cobequid, now part of Colchester County.

Vignettes from a cross-section of immigrants detail migration and settlement and the evolution of New England and Irish cultural mores in this wilderness setting.

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