Byers, Mary, and Margaret McBurney.Atlantic Hearth: Early Homes and Families of Nova Scotia. University of Toronto Press, 1994. The stories of explorers, rogues, sailors, shipbuilders, and other pioneers in a lively text illustrated with pictures from past and present.
Choyce, Lesley.Nova Scotia: Shaped by the Sea. Viking 1996. Reprint Diane Publishing, 1999. This popular social history focuses on the people of Nova Scotia and how the province's development has been shaped by the sea.