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Harry Bruce

Born and raised in Toronto, Harry Bruce has deep family and literary roots in Nova Scotia. Author of over twenty books and countless columns and articles in every major Canadian periodical, he was, successively, managing editor of Saturday Night, editor of The Canadian and columnist for The Star Weekly. He moved to Halifax as founding editor of Atlantic Insight, winner of the Outstanding Achievement Award of the National Magazine Awards Foundation. Respected worldwide as a writer, journalist and educator, in 2011 Harry Bruce received Atlantic Journalism's Lifetime Achievement Award. His book Lifeline earned the first Evelyn Richardson Memorial Literary Award for Non-Fiction. He continues to live in Halifax with his wife Penny, to whom he credits much of his success.

Books by Harry Bruce

The Perfect Day and Other Stories

by (author) Harry Bruce

Halifax and Me

by (author) Harry Bruce

Lifeline

The Story of the Atlantic Ferries and Coastal Boats

by (author) Harry Bruce

An Illustrated History of Nova Scotia

Twentieth-anniversary edition

by (author) Harry Bruce
supplement by Dan Soucoup

Page Fright

Foibles and Fetishes of Famous Writers

by (author) Harry Bruce

ZZZWO WRITE OFFS

Proceedings of The Halifax Conference:A National Forum on Canadian Cultural Policy

by (author) Formac Publishing Company Limited
introduction by Malcolm Ross
edited by Harry Bruce

Never Content

How Mavericks and Outsiders Made a Surprise Winner of Maritime Life

by (author) Harry Bruce

Tall Ships Odyssey

An Odyssey

by (author) Harry Bruce

Down Home

Notes Of A Maritime Son

by (author) Harry Bruce

Home for Christmas

edited by Sabine Campbell
by (author) Ray Guy, Ann Copeland, Robert B. Richards, Maureen Hull, David Helwig, Kelly Cooper, Anne Simpson, Sue Sinclair, Susan Haley, Mary Tunney, Harry Bruce, Bernice Morgan, Brian Bartlett, Syr Ruus, Herb Curtis, Lynn Coady, Ted Russell, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Ephie Carrier, Jess Bond, Patrick O'Flaherty, David Weale, Robert Gibbs, Paul Bowdring, Clarissa Hurley, John Steffler, Wayne Johnston & Mary Jane Losier

Illustrated History of Nova Scotia

by (author) Harry Bruce

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Proceedings of The Halifax Conference:A National Forum on Canadian Cultural Policy

introduction by Malcolm Ross
edited by Harry Bruce