Testimonies and Secrets : : The Story of a Nova Scotia Family, 1844-1977 /

Testimonies and Secrets : : The Story of a Nova Scotia Family, 1844-1977 / / Robert Mennel.

This compelling history is drawn from the papers of the Crouse-Eikle family, discovered in their ancestral home in Crousetown on Nova Scotia's South Shore. Millwright John Will Crouse (1844-1914) kept a meticulous diary spanning five decades. Reflective by nature, he recorded the challenges of...

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Mennel, Robert,
Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019]
©2013
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (336 p.) :; 3 maps
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations and Maps
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Prelude: Lunenburg and "Crouse town Mills," 1753-1844
  • 1. Young Man on the Rise
  • 2. John Will Crouse's Village, 1871-1884
  • 3. The Family and Its World, 1880-1900
  • 4. John Will Crouse's Autumn-time, 1898-1914
  • Interlude: Crousetown in an Era of War and Depression
  • 5. The Eikle Family and Harold, 1909-1943
  • 6. A Family's End, 1943-1977
  • Postlude: Crousetown, 2007
  • Appendices
  • 1. Krauss/Crouse Family
  • 2. Simeon Crouse Family
  • 3. Ramey Family
  • 4. Eikle and Kaulback Families
  • Notes
  • Index

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