"The austere beauty of the Nova Scotia landscape serves as an integral part of the architecture of Brian MacKay-Lyons. The work of this native son responds to this unique topography and to the vernacular building traditions that define its communities. His houses, nestled along …
Ghost: building an architectural vision
by ebrary, Inc, Buchanan, Peter, MacKay-Lyons, Brian
Ghost: building an architectural vision
by Buchanan, Peter, MacKay-Lyons, Brian, Ghost Lab
"In 1994 nine ambitious students joined architect and professor Brian MacKay-Lyons at his family farm on the coast of Nova Scotia, atop a nearly four-hundred-year-old stone ruin, to embark on a unique utopian architectural experiment. Housed in tents, without modern conveniences…
"When the First World War ended in 1918, its profound impact did not. The war continued to haunt a nation. Nova Scotia at War, 1914-1919 is an in-depth study of Nova Scotia's role in what was, at the time, the most traumatic collective experience in the history of Canadians. As …
"When the First World War ended in 1918, its profound impact did not. The war continued to haunt a nation. Nova Scotia at War, 1914-1919 is an in-depth study of Nova Scotia's role in what was, at the time, the most traumatic collective experience in the history of Canadians. As …
"When the First World War ended in 1918, its profound impact did not. The war continued to haunt a nation. Nova Scotia at War, 1914-1919 is an in-depth study of Nova Scotia's role in what was, at the time, the most traumatic collective experience in the history of Canadians. As …
"When the First World War ended in 1918, its profound impact did not. The war continued to haunt a nation. Nova Scotia at War, 1914-1919 is an in-depth study of Nova Scotia's role in what was, at the time, the most traumatic collective experience in the history of Canadians. As …
"When the First World War ended in 1918, its profound impact did not. The war continued to haunt a nation. Nova Scotia at War, 1914-1919 is an in-depth study of Nova Scotia's role in what was, at the time, the most traumatic collective experience in the history of Canadians. As …
Nova Scotia at War, 1915-1919 is an in-depth study of Nova Scotia's role that was, at the time, the most traumatic collective experience in the history of Canadians. As Tennyson explores in nine fascinating chapters, the war effort was more than just the brave soldiers and sailo…
"In the 1880s, through an amendment to the Indian Act of 1876, the government of Canada began to require all Aboriginal children to attend schools administered by churches. Separating these children from their families, removing them from their communities and destroying Aborigi…